Corey Engel 🇺🇸 CTO Guy

My grandfather 👴 was a tool and die maker For the past 2 decades I’ve been building off a vision he had for making the flying vehicle market available for everyone His work building the first flying cars helped him to retire in his 40s By the time he passed away, advances…

It takes $5M to originate $50M but that’s the minimum threshold Anything under it and you begin to skip steps

the best founders get backed by one of three types of family offices the one they come from the one that comes along side the one they build

hardware for AI Is just rinsed and reshipped IOT

had lunch with a $6.8B family office today. biggest take? They don’t chase shiny deals or quick wins. They focus on decades-long bets, building quiet empires, and moving money with patience most founders can’t imagine. Wealth isn’t loud, it’s strategic.

Founders don’t wait for permission—they build while others debate. They turn “I don’t know” into “let’s find out.”

“Manufacturing is easy,” said no startup founder ever. Design, supply chain, quality control, delays, customs, defects, pissy customers But get it right, and you own the game. PS: Respect to every founder battling factories daily. 🙌

A real family office isn’t just about wealth. It’s a web: 🏛 Trusts 🧾 LLCs 🛡 Insurance wrappers 🌍 Offshore entities The goal? Own nothing, control everything, be seen nowhere.

A $17B family office doesn’t chase trends. They buy cash flow, structure for tax, and play for decades. While you’re optimizing your Notion setup, they’re quietly owning 3 airports and half of Aspen.

Building a React Native + Expo app powered by AWS microservices feels like cheating: ✔️ Write once ✔️ Instant backend with Lambda & API Gateway ✔️ Scalable DB with DynamoDB ✔️ Ship fast, scale later Mobile MVPs have never been this smooth.

Founders don’t burn out from working too much. They burn out from working on the wrong things for too long. Startups aren’t about effort. They’re about alignment. Fix that, and energy comes back fast.

i think about this often "buying local" where i live, is Walmart

America 🇺🇸 is a Christian nation It was founded as such and will continue to be so.

Build in Summer Sell in Autumn Make moves in the Winter Raise capital in the Spring

I’ve never voted harder for something

I once built an HRIS for a HR services company I had to spend months on-site listening to 25-35 yo fem power HR gals do their power meetings where they talked about smooth talking construction crews into buying their safety and compliance trainings Cringe but profitable.

something absolutely addicting about building cross platform apps (Especially mobile) there’s just a level of craftsmanship you can attain with bits/pixels, that you just can’t get with atoms

this is how I watched all extended edition LOTRs

I’ve noticed Indian dudes treat American like they treat their women

Coca-Cola is the Salesforce of beverages Who cares about sugar type, wtf is it??

Every fintech founder “Have too much data? Let’s visualize it with dashboards. Bad investment returns? You don’t have enough data” 🤪