Alex Modon
@alexmodon
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Cofounder & CEO @unltdindustries. On a mission to automate construction end to end and ensure a future of radical physical abundance 🏗️🇺🇸
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2009
For most of my life, I assumed technology only moved in one direction: Faster, better, cheaper. Progress felt inevitable. But if you look at the industry that once embodied American ambition, that's not happening. Over the past 50 years, our ability to build large
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One of my teammates who lives outside the US casually referred to the imperial system as “freedom metrics.” Pretty sure it was meant as an insult. Yet I felt an unreasonable amount of pride hearing it, which I think means I passed the 'murica test. 🇺🇸
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Browser and desktop automation delivers little real leverage. I think it’s going to be >12 months, if ever, before this use case takes off. The problem with AI “using your computer” isn’t missing intelligence capability. It’s missing context on the job to be done. One-off human
Um… the Claude Chrome Extension that controls my browser is insane.
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This is why we’re building Unlimited
My father in law is a builder. He is insanely gifted. I showed him these pictures and asked him what it would cost to build this in the US. I will never forget his answer.. "We can't, we don't know how to do it"
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This is great. He should be proud. Our own civilization should also start building beautiful and uplifting public spaces again. Beauty and truth are aligned, and as Jefferson noted, great architecture inspires us to take pride in our country, to be better citizens and leaders.
Some more glimpses of the new terminal building of the Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi International Airport in Guwahati.
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Thanks for having me @NWischoff! Fun talking to someone who understands what’s broken in the space. If you’re a talented engineer across mechanical, electrical, civil/structural, systems, or a multidisciplinary builder and you want to change the course of how humanity builds,
Easy to see the $11T global TAM of the construction industry and assume its ripe for technology. While that may be true, there are less than a handful of companies who have successfully succeeded in serving some segment of the market (Procore, Built Technologies, Plangrid, Kojo).
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Thanks for swinging by @racheleizner. Glad you saw our weird mix of ambition, impatience, and people who think the built world is overdue for a total rewrite. If you want to build (real) infrastructure, the kind that actually matters, reach out.
i had the pleasure of meeting @alexmodon & team last week and was nothing short of inspired. i wrote a bit for the @foundersysk newsletter about the bets they're taking, their unconventional team, and their vision of abundance. link in bio!
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The physical world we build should embody beauty and ambition
@PabloPeniche This is what the public spaces of the tech capital of the world should look like. Not ruins.
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LFG!! Exactly what we need. New players challenge the incumbents to scale capacity to meet demand. And being @boomsupersonic you know they are going to scale FASTTTT 🔥
A new product, a new customer, a new financing! Introducing Superpower: a 42MW natural gas turbine optimized for AI datacenters, built on our supersonic technology. Superpower launches with a 1.21GW order from @CrusoeAI Backstory 🧵👇
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Progress follows incentives. In many industries, capitalism will naturally extract radical gains from AI. But in industries with deep principal–agent problems (consulting, law firms, defense contractors, construction, etc.), today’s business models expressly prohibit AI from
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Screenshot halfway through the livestream. Only 155k people tuned in live for the greatest tech advancement in human history. AI is still wildly underhyped.
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This is one of the most iconic memos ever written. He sent it the same day their third attempt failed (which the previously believed was their last before running out of money). Absolute resolve. https://t.co/KmkEvWiCMg
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We need more ambition and less process for process sake 🇺🇸
We used to hold our infrastructure in higher regard. Our engineers were wizards and we adorned our structures with the images of the beautiful mysticism that they inspire. We should do more of this.
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I’ve been thinking about how the longer something lasts, the more it seems to protect itself instead of doing the thing it was built to do. Not just companies, but systems of all kinds - especially the ones we count on to build the physical world: power plants, factories, and the
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In 10 yrs we’re going to vibe code real world infrastructure.
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Starting to think most future software ends up open source. Once the cost to build drops near zero, there's no downside. And the upside is letting customers modify everything themselves (with natural language).
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I have the coolest job in the world. I’d do this shit for free.
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