Ian Laffey
@ilaffey2
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Cofounder of https://t.co/yQqFHgrvbK
San Francisco
Joined January 2023
a year and a half later in eastern ukraine with UKRSOF flying drones we built and enabling >60km autonomous flights through jamming really proud of how far we’ve come, it hasn’t been easy and it certainly took more than 24h
we designed, 3d printed and built a <$500 drone with that calculates GPS coordinates without a signal using a camera + google maps in 24h
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i think sam and abe are the most talented founding duo i know. (and i know a lot of really incredible founders!!)
I'm excited to announce @inference_net's $11.8M Series Seed funding round, led by @multicoincap & @a16zcrypto CSX, with participation from @topology_vc, @fdotinc, and an incredible group of angels. The next wave of AI adoption will be driven by companies building AI natively
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in the US capital they take alipay, the aliexpress payments platform
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“red bulls are for girls, white monster is for guys. i feel like that’s universal”
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government contracts are so beautiful. government contracting is the ultimate form of human expression, of beauty and of the ability for man to serve state
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absolutely incredible opportunity for the right person
I'm looking to hire 2 people to launch the most capable AI Agent ever: * Growth -- take this product to market, grow on socials and showcase it to a large audience. * Full Stack AI Engineer -- proficient in major AI tools and frameworks, up to date on the latest techniques and
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gradient descent alone is an ineffective way to build a company. you need a tool to detect and blast your way out of local minima. this is hard and painful
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perks of job include working outside once per week and flying drones in the office
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year is 2027, you’re in the taiwan straight getting killed by drone by the guy who practiced his rocket league aerials instead of going to class
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we are doing everything, living our lives, fighting our wars, inside of a computer
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success is a proxy for getting to meet better and better people
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one of our team members just returned from his trip to kyiv today. what he described was resilience. triumph. it is so hard to continue, to persevere day after day, year after year, and yet they do. he took a lot of photos and i'm hoping to share that there is more there than
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thanks for coming by and talking about what we’re building, Ti. i really enjoyed the conversation!!
First interview with Ian Laffey (@ilaffey2) CEO & cofounder of Theseus Flying drones in GPS-denied environments, experiences in Ukraine, making decisions on intuition. 0:26 Flying in GPS-denied environments 8:40 Strapping an Android phone to a drone 16:55 Why delays are so
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