Edward
@somefoundersalt
Building the space compute company @AetheroSpace
Proud to announce @AetheroSpace has raised $8.4M led by @KindredVentures alongside @Neo, @GiantStepVC, @alumniventures, @1517fund, and @osventuresllc to build compute in space s/o to our angels @JoshuaSteinman, @basti, @miamishor, @sthenc, @kayvz, and others What comes next?
Tuesdays are for shipping out space-grade GPUs to big defense primes
There’s Chinese mantra 站小便宜吃大虧: small short-term profit for huge long-term losses Nothing exemplifies that better than pushing portco founders to screw their team for your bag Very bad for any future portco hiring if true And ofc shame on founders for being so spineless
The founders wanted the employees to get paid, but those around the board (KP, Greenoaks, General Catalyst) have 0 incentive to give up even $1 to employees who own common. The founders weren’t willing to risk the deal on their employees.
your fancy ai startup might be monetizing agents or whatever, but has it ever been sent a commemorative seed round sword
they’ll do absolutely everything except actually launch rockets
🔮 What if your astrological sign revealed your space alter ego?
We’re raising a seed round of 500 gold ducats at 3,000 ducats post and already have our first LOI signed with the Holy Roman Empire. We must beat the Ming dynasty in the gunpowder race!
Handgonne ca. 1400. Loosely modelled after the Tannenberg castle gun, mine is loaded with around 50-60 gr. of 2F black powder and fires a .75 calibre lead ball.
In 2009, Lockheed Martin proposed a manned mission to a near-Earth asteroid as one of the replacement objectives for the dying Constellation program Instead of designing a proper deep space hab they decided “fuck it, we’ll just slap two Orions together” Pic related
apparently “deep tech founder” is just a really fancy way of saying “traveling salesman”
Did the DoD get hit by a ball that makes you stupid? This would be like IBM outsourcing its NORAD and SAGE air defense contracts to the Soviet Union in the middle of the Cold War How did we get so incompetent?
Stunning @ProPublica investigation: Microsoft uses Chinese engineers to maintain Pentagon systems without much of a check in place. "Digital escorts" -- ex-military with little coding experience -- are supposed to guard against spying. But they can't keep up with foreign…
yea sure, but if you tell the board “grok told me to do it” instead of “mckinsey told me to do it” you’ll get fired good luck replicating that moat
R.I.P McKinsey. You don’t need a $300k consultant anymore. You can now run full competitive market analysis using Grok 4. Here are the exact 3 mega-prompts I use to replicate McKinsey-style insights for free:
I resent being called a ‘mercenary’ and prefer the far more inclusive term of ‘Capitalist-American’
SBA loans need to stop requiring personal guarantees If you’re a entrepreneurial young man in want of financing to open a business, the options are millions in venture capital or a far smaller SBA loan that’ll ruin you personally if you fail Why would anyone pick the latter?
American manufacturing is gridlocked 4 stakeholders have aligned goals, misaligned incentives: - Industry wants growth, can’t find talent - Govt wants jobs, chases headlines - Education chases prestige (and $), not pipelines - Tech wants scale, not fit All want a stronger USA
I will not engage with the slop, I will not see the slop, I will not grant a single inch of cognitive real estate to the slop (x10)
two trends are happening 1. startups will struggle to find founding engineers unless they can match big tech cash comp. we get bigger more dilutive raises 2. everyone becoming way more mercenary-like. only mission is getting the bag. huge loss for the startup ecosystem. shame.
Here is most of what I’ve gathered on the Windsurf / Google Deal The founders and dozens of engineers are going to Google. This group, along with the preferred shareholders will be sharing the $2.4B headline number. The exact split is unknown but investors are making some money…