R.A. Spencer
@RonASpencer
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Building a portfolio of companies focused on a new era in human civilization - futurist, investor, designer, cattle rancher.
Joined June 2011
Except the weather factor. Heavy rain here in the jungle and my starlink goes out.
People don’t understand, Starlink is gonna be just: ‘the internet’. Direct to cell is gonna hit hard. Basically all telco is doomed. Let’s check in this time next year 👋
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CEO’s: Invest in design, or perish.
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Architecture is music in space and feeds the soul on levels most may never understand.
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This is why good design is critical. Rushing in without a very strategic roadmap is going to get you in trouble.
95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, per MIT.
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How to recruit in a new era… I think it’s time for @TheRock to get a new season of Ballers rolling.
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You can learn a lot by watching how high level college football Coaches operate their programs.
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This is a pretty cool tool that could make some epic architectural features.
Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity
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Huge VC opportunity.
Unlike spacecraft components, deep space ground stations aren’t built for “new space.” Most are run by nation states and are not designed to work with the cost or time structure of a commercial company. For Odin, we went beyond solving technical issues; we were also navigating
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The cowboy side of me is okay with this.
BREAKING: Beyond Meat, $BYND, headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy, per the Street
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That tractor sitting there could have done this with 2 people in half the time…
NeoFarm is using robotics to make organic market gardening profitable! The French agri-tech startup has developed a patented system that automates the toughest parts of organic vegetable production, from soil prep to repetitive harvesting. On each farm, the system supports
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Whew... that's a thing of beauty
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The bulls, heat and spurs are looking at some seriously wild appreciation.
NEWS: Tom Dundon has reportedly agreed to buy the Portland Trail Blazers for just over $4 billion. 💰📈
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.@pmarca in 2017: The lump of labor fallacy says there's only so much work to go around. But the car didn’t just replace horses. It created motels, suburbs, drive-ins, and entire industries we hadn’t imagined. "The second, third, and fourth order effects were 100X, 1000X the
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.@pmarca on @charlierose in 1996: "The way that our customers make money is... by saving money." Early adopters made the internet pay for itself, fast. A 10x return on a $50 seat license. Before the internet became culture, it was infrastructure.
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The space economy is very real.
What investing opinion do you have that makes people feel like this?
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Very valid point worth watching.
Watched an interview with Casey Neistat today, who talked about how all the teenagers take selfies on point-and-shoot cameras instead of smartphones now. iPhone photos have gotten too perfect. The automatic photo editing software has gotten so good that photos have been stripped
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We need to build a version of this to fight wild fires.
The Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV), a heavily modified vehicle designed by Sean Casey to film tornadoes up close,
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One of the best feelings you can get. Making other people feel good.
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