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Definite optimist. // CEO @DiracInc 🇺🇸 Bringing reality back to mechanical design. Automating work instructions.
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Exciting News! After months in stealth, we're introducing Dirac's BuildOS - the first AUTOMATED Work Instruction platform.
It's time to change the way manufacturing engineers draft work instructions.
Get access to BuildOS here:
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Capital isn’t scarce, good people to work with are scarce.
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If you move to the Gundo I’ll greet you with a fresh canister of preworkout and a soldering iron
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How do founders in NYC qualify for apartments?
These guys are literally telling me "Thank you but we cannot submit a self-prepared employment letter"
Brother please I just need to stop commuting for 3 hours a day
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I CANNOT BELIEVE that a company finally emerges called and it’s literally AI for software
Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering.
Excited to announce our $5M fundraise, led by
@sequoia
(
@shaunmmaguire
) and
@Lux_Capital
(
@breeves08
)
Read more here:
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Looking for a “just figure it out” person. DM me 🤠🫡
If you want to get into Hard Tech, but you don't have "Hard Tech" skills, do this:
DM a bunch of hard tech founders, & tell them you will be their "just figure it out" person.
Every hard tech co needs people who will take the weirdest/hardest problems and "just figure it out".
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NYC is the only city capable of producing viable deep tech companies, and it’s not even close
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You wanna know why the West has forgotten how to build great things?
Because the over-financialization of markets since the 80s/90s has drained the adventurous spirituality from project planning and turned it into a game of projections and returns rather than glory
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Build the billion dollar software company, and then use that to subsidize the hardware company.
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Team is absolutely RIPPING. Firing on ALL CYLINDERS.
You see that guy in the bottom left? That’s the CTO.
Do you see how he uses that $15 keyboard? He is CRACKED.
Join
@DiracInc
today and he’ll recite to you every train stop in the Northeast from memory. 🫡🇺🇸
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Deep tech is anything with more technical risk than market risk
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Uh, guys? I think we’re actually back
COMMERCE SEC. GINA RAIMONDO: "We're going to make building hardware sexy again! How 'bout that?! Doesn't that sound fun?!"
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Fortune 100 company sends me a CAD file over email in 5 minutes for their demo
Startup requires 3 NDAs and 7 blood oaths before sending it as an encrypted .txt file
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We will instigate a love for American manufacturing the likes of which have never seen before.
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@ruth_hook_
@meatballtimes
Soviet Russia definitely did.
I’m a lefty and my grandmother, who is also one, said that in school, they’d force you to use your right and hit you if you tried to use your left hand — it was considered “evil”.
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Heartbreaking. This is like Richard Feynman shilling dogecoin.
@MichioKaku
: "Quantum computers can act as a fact checker on ChatGPT."
@JoeRogan
: "It's going to be able to discern what's real and what's not real?"
@MichioKaku
: "Yes, and even gradations of what's true. It can give you detailed understanding of what is partially correct."
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Please do yourself a favor and pick a name for your company that’s meaningful and timeless
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The Allegory of the CAD
In the austere heart of the manufacturing universe, there exists a hushed workshop, bathed in a perpetual twilight.
It was here that a colony of mechanical engineers lived, each entranced by the hypnotic glow of their computer screens.
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Getting into this whole startup founder thing, they never tell you know how much of the job is literally just paperwork.
Sending out SAFE notes, sending them out again on Carta, making sure the language in this customer contract is correct...
Truly mind-boggling
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The Myth of Verticalization
Verticalization has been hailed as a panacea for aerospace startups, promising cost savings, increased efficiency, and better quality control. However, this belief is misguided.
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Beautiful moment is receiving a CAD file for a piece of gym equipment that you spent thousands of hours on that changed your life.
The equipment built me, and so now I will help build the equipment.
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Before you DM me this, no this is not a
@DiracInc
competitor
Mechanical engineers/designers spend 40% of their time creating production drawings from their 3D models. It's a tedious process, error-prone, and often delays projects by weeks.
DraftAid (YC W24) uses AI to automate this process with a single click:
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“You go to war with the industrial base you have, not the industrial base you want”
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There comes a time in every mans life when he decides if he wants to be a Serious Person.
My friend is one of the most Serious men I’ve ever met.
My testimony at the Tennessee Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
0:00 Intro
0:17 My testimony
4:15 Questions from the committee
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I want an SR-71
@benkohlmann
@GarettJones
Make something you yourself want. Turn off the filter that it has to be a startup idea initially, or you'll lop off the outliers. When you've thought of something, start building, and get a version 1 in front of your friends as soon as you can.
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November update email went out yesterday.
First month of revenue. Five figures of it. 🤠
Team is firing on all cylinders.
Such an exciting month ahead.
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If you were a MechE/MfgE at an aero/defense company (especially a Prime!) and are now a Software Engineer, DM me!
The
@DiracInc
team is GROWING. We’ve got some pretty insane stuff on the horizon.
This WILL NOT BE EASY. But we will WIN. All-stars and adventurers only. DM me.
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🇺🇸
ANNOUNCEMENT: Gundo will be arriving in full force by land, sea, air, and party bus. Prepare yourselves people of S[redacted]
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If you catch me curling 25s, just write me to zero
NEW: They pump iron, chew nicotine and build weapons. Beloved by a16z investors and inspired by Palmer Luckey, they call themselves the Gundo bros, "unapologetic" Americans building defense tech companies in LA.
w/
@SarahNEmerson
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You need to be going faster.
You need to be fitting 2 years into 2 months.
You need to be doing things before you’re ready to.
You need to be trying and failing, over and over.
You need to be tired, but tireless.
You need to keep going.
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The forbidden glizzy
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America can only be rebuilt by loving and caring about those who actually work with their hands.
I have a deep love for the manufacturing folks that I work to support
@ADoricko
has a deep love for the farming folks that he supports
Love and respect beget American Prosperity.
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Crazy how the Foundation show had ENORMOUS amounts of source material to go off of and then went and made up 80% of it
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But with BuildOS, magic happens! Drop a CAD file & let us handle the rest.
We determine the assembly order, craft stunning 3D renderings/animations for each step, and auto-generate the text.
From weeks to minutes!
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American Seriousness is Back. 🤠🫡🇺🇸
The West shall Build Great Things once again.
The
@usairforce
has selected Anduril to design, manufacture, and test production-representative Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).
In this era of great power competition, there is no time to waste on business as usual. We look forward to delivering CCAs on schedule, within…
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The amount of energy I get talking to users of BuildOS instead of talking to VCs is mesmerizing.
God I love my job
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“Why is what you’re building defensible?”
Because I am standing guard at the gate with 80lbs of chainmail and a mace
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Now doesn’t he look handsome with that tie?
.
@ClintonGlobal
has done incredible work for global water infrastructure
It was a pleasure discussing how cloud seeding can enhance water supplies with # 42
@BillClinton
!
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Great companies have to have great swag, I don’t make the rules
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So funny and surreal
These are literally my friends
GUNDO DEEP DIVE VIDEO
Tons of hard tech startups are building in El Segundo. This video covers:
- Map of hard tech companies
- Brief history lesson
- Interviews with
@ADoricko
@ScottNolan
@ashleevance
@mrexits
@isaiah_p_taylor
@zanemountcastle
@cameron62s
&
@soren_ma
- 🧵👇
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“I don’t like the humanoid robot blah blah blah it’s stupid because economics and kinematics and pid loops wah wah wah”
Dude, shut up
They’re really cool
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When the web3 VC asks to “pick your brain” about hardtech for their new thesis
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Spoke about
@DiracInc
in front of hundreds of folks from the most exciting OEMs and Tier 1 Suppliers around back in December!
Thank you
@PlugandPlayTC
for having me. It's time to Build! 🏭🤠
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In NYC, every day is like Uncut Gems.
In the Gundo, every day is like Top Gun.
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Big if true
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ALWAYS pay it forward. The world runs on the kindness and generosity of You 10 Years From Now.
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This man is actually going to build it, in case you were concerned and ill-informed
I'm excited to announce our first institutional partner at Valar Atomics! Riot Ventures has invested $1.5m to accelerate the buildout of our LA-based team. (More about that below👇)
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I asked Gemini for a picture of The Gundo and it gave me this
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Better robotics will be the key to reshoring American manufacturing.
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I’m gonna be honest guys, I keep hiring people with my various heuristics, but man I am lucky that they all just turn out to be fucking incredible
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Today, manual assembly instructions take weeks or even months to draft.
Engineers dread the process of figuring out the assembly order, snapping countless CAD screenshots, and tediously typing step-by-step directions.
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Software for engineers is everywhere, but what about the technicians & manufacturers?
We're here to improve THEIR daily grind, eliminating tasks they dread so they can focus on their passion:
Building great things.
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Brain Drain is the greatest weapon the US has at it’s disposal and some people just don’t get it
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Fellas will see a random piece of industrial machinery on the sidewalk in NYC and think to themselves “based, hell yeah, American Dynamism”
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You need to STOP self-actualizing a dystopian future
You MUST START self-actualizing an Asimovian future.
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Boy oh boy I love VC funds whose primary LPs are mid-market manufacturing companies
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Here's the kicker: BuildOS is designed as an 80/20 tool.
We handle the heavy lifting (80%), but the invaluable tribal knowledge (20%) – like "grease here" or "loctite that" – is up to the manufacturer/user to add.
It’s a tool, NOT a replacement.
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I’m on a new diet: totally starve myself during the week and inhale unlimited all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ on the weekend
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Ladies and gentlemen, we’re reaching levels of awesome previously thought impossible
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We win by holding our hands in two directions — one up, and one down.
Accept help and support, build friends and allies wherever you can.
And on the way up, pull everyone you can up along with you. Always pay it forward. Never forget that part.
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