Jeff Crusey
@JeffCrusey
Deep Tech Investor: @CastelionCorp, @The_TrueAnomaly, @XonaSpace etc Co-Founder & Resident Investor @peraspera__us EVP of Technology & Acquisition @ Blacklake
Thank you @SpaceCapital and @chadsonofchad for your support of Per Aspera!
Long before the Renaissance became a movement of many, it was the conviction of a few. One of these convicted few is @SpaceCapital (Per Aspera Founding Sponsor 🇺🇸💥🙏). Their track record begins in 2012. At the time, space was still seen as a government silo —…
Woke up this morning thinking about what it will take for America to lead in AI. We have written about it in this morning's Per Aspera. And what driving American AI leadership means for our collective work across tech, finance and policy. 👇 Subscribe to get it in time:…
@Ryandoofy's (PA Editor-in-Chief) dispatching a killer newsletter this morning: @AnthropicAI, @WhiteHouse, and @GoldmanSachs all came out with major reports last week. 👇 They’re all saying the same thing. America’s ability to lead in AI will come down to whether we can build…
Everything is an entry flight path angle problem
Everything is an entry flight path angle problem
AI for VC is a strategic imperative at a macro level. Not just a micro operational win. Venture capital has always been America's edge. If we believe innovation and the ability to make things is a nation's edge. It must be true that the capital underwriting that risk is the key.…
I truly believe in Founder / VC / Market fit. Especially in deep tech. @PalantirTech once made an offer to acquire a drone startup I had backed (mix of cash and stock). It wasn’t the breakout exit that would make you go, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s a huge exit.’ So the VC with the…
Happy Birthday @dansgoldin! Grateful to be a small part of your journey. 💥
Grateful to turn 85 today. This is the side of me, I don't post about often. The real Dan Goldin 👇 I spent most of my life behind the secrecy of classified works during the Cold War and then catapulted all of a sudden into the public eye as NASA Administrator. On both sides,…
I recently realized: the founder profile I back again and again is LOW EGO, HIGH HORSEPOWER. On low ego: think this is self explanatory (and should not be confused with low confidence). On high horsepower: 1. Strategic intuition from technical depth. They’ve thought so…
I respect @bgurley a lot but think there’s a nuance here. I agree on the starting observation: VC funds have become megafunds. And have started treating early-stage investing like optionality. But this assumes founders will inevitably take the mega-check if offered. Many of the…
My $0.02. A mega-VC with $5-10B annual funds is really searching for only one thing: a company they can pile over $1b into with a potential for 5-10X on the $1b. With this, seed fund is inconsequential money used to increase the odds of main objective. You are collateral damage.
In this morning's Per Aspera newsletter (in honor of 🇺🇸 moon landing): 1 / Capital allocation of space (why Moon, Mars, asteroids) 2 / What Mark Zuckerburg’s Hyperion data center the size of Manhattan means for the shifting economy 3 / @SpaceCapital Teardown (Per Aspera…
This morning's Per Aspera is about capital allocation of space. With finite resources, America must prioritize. We can claim "Renaissance" all we want, but we know that Great 🇺🇸 Renaissance succeeds with clarity of purpose and public trust. As the commercialization of space…
As an ’80s baby, my first memory of space was the Challenger disaster. So, it felt that much more inspiring to hear my mom talk about the moon landing. The whole country stopped to watch, and like everyone else who got to be a part of it, she remembered exactly where she was.…
Wrestling taught me so much about the mind. In high school (Francis Parker, SD 🙌), one coach gave me The Brothers Karamazov and another Thomas Aquinas. If you've read these books you know the big themes are: suffering, choice, self-mastery. But the content wasn’t the biggest…
My parent’s garage door openers stop working on occasion. They live close to a submarine base and just realized it could be the sub degaussing disabling their garage door openers. American problems 🇺🇸