Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️
@jansramek
Founder & CEO, @CAForever. Raised $1bn+ to build a new city on 100+ square miles an hour north of SF/SV. For those who believe California's best days are ahead.
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
Designed with paper drawings and slide rules, and built by men dangling from lines with rivet guns.
With help from @Chris_Smeder, @JonathanHillis, @levin_phil, @devonzuegel, @damonhemmerding, @Cobylefko, @jansramek, @AustinTunnell and @davegordon14, I made this wishlist of changes that could make it easier to build more beautiful & walkable places. Somewhat ranked in order of…
Excellent pod live from @reindsummit with @MollySOShea on @sourceryvc !
RE-BREAKING: Hadrian Raises $260M Series C Led by Delian Asparouhov of Founders Fund, & Lux Capital, alongside a factory expansion loan facility from Morgan Stanley This brings Hadrian’s total funding to ~$500M since founding in 2020 CEO Chris Power (@2112Power) returns to…
Watch this 1-min clip and tell me you don't get excited about our potential to re-forge the bonds btwn high-tech R&D and prosperous manufacturing on American shores. More than a mega-city industrial park, Solano is an innovation ecosystem for American jobs and prosperity. 🚀🇺🇸
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
Had the pleasure of touring the area last week. I’m very excited about exploring manufacturing our products in California.
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
The venture market is hypersaturated with big fundings, so it’s easy to overlook @2112power's announcement. But what’s happening @HadrianInc is genuinely rare. (🧵)
Hadrian is announcing a $260m Series C lead by @foundersfund + @Lux_Capital + @MorganStanley for (Factory Expansion financing). We're also welcoming new investors @altimeter, @1789Capital + investments from existing investors @a16z, @constructcap, @137ventures and many others.…
Hadrian is announcing a $260m Series C lead by @foundersfund + @Lux_Capital + @MorganStanley for (Factory Expansion financing). We're also welcoming new investors @altimeter, @1789Capital + investments from existing investors @a16z, @constructcap, @137ventures and many others.…
I love this! We at @Carbon benefit immensely from manufacturing our own 3D printers in the same building as our engineering team, and then, and the key is this, we run lots of experiments using our printers to advance the methods of making—“eating our own dog food” as the…
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
Efforts like this one are how we bring back America as the superpower that won the Cold War.
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
Come build the foundry at the Solano Foundry and make here the new Statue of Liberty, that on America’s 250th birthday ushers in a new era of American optimism and opportunity, standing on the tallest hill in the city of Solano, the city of the sun. 🗽🌅🇺🇸
We’re about to leave San Francisco and return to Paris. We’ve been deeply moved by the optimism of the people here. Every time we spoke about our grand dream, we were never met with skepticism—only encouragement, and offers to help make it real. We came here to seek funding for…
So great to see people building like this
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
Insanely excited about this. See if you can spot Olto 😉
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
Let's do it
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
California Forever 🚀🇺🇸
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
This shit fires me up. Make CA Great Again 🇺🇸🐻
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
The thing is this is what used to be in the Puget Sound and accelerated Boeing's trajectory. Everything right there around Boeing Field.
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
Sick
10/ Here’s the kicker. Solano Foundry will offer permitting as fast as 90 days. How? By completing the entitlements upfront, so that companies coming here can just go through a ministerial permit process.
How can you not be pumped!!
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
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1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
Pretty smart and much needed.
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵