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Bravo to the @boomsupersonic team for making this happen!
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Today is going to be such a fun day for Boom. Elon teed things up nicely on the $SPCX earnings call.
My first 12 hours in SF accelerated quickly from quaint coffees and sushi to a robot cage fight. No onboarding, just a welcome to SF stress test.
Thanks to the cool people on @X, my entire SF trip is now planned. Let the activities commence 🏃♀️
Amy Brandenburg retweeted
Colorado has something awesome called the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Among other things, it protects a simple principle: everyone pays the same state income-tax rate. If your income doubles, your tax doubles. Seems reasonable, right?
Amendment 87 would repeal that protection and nearly double the top marginal state tax rate while modestly reducing the lowest rates.
Under the new rules, doubling your taxable income could mean a state income-tax bill nearly four times what you’d owe on your current income today.
To me, this looks like a blatant attempt to buy votes: the majority votes themselves a tax break funded by much higher taxes on a small minority.
And it hits startups especially hard. Founders and early employees often spend years building something before receiving a substantial payoff from selling their shares after an IPO or in an acquisition. A decade of work with no guarantee of success can produce a payout counted as income in a single year—and taxed at much higher rates.
I’ve spent a decade building Boom in Colorado, on track to create hundreds of high-paying jobs. Colorado’s tax fairness was one reason I chose to build here. Now voters are being asked to change those rules and take a much larger share of a potential taxable payoff from that work.
Should I have built Boom in Texas, which has no state personal income tax? Should the next ambitious founder choose Colorado or somewhere else?
Colorado is at a crossroads. Do we want to stay true to our OG spirit of rugged independence, freedom, and fairness—or make Colorado a less attractive place to build?
Punishing success is morally wrong and bad policy to boot. We should be celebrating the people who build new things and create new wealth for themselves and others. Their work gives us companies, products, and jobs.
Let’s keep Colorado as one of the best places to live, build, create, and innovate—and to enjoy the rewards of our hard-fought efforts.
I’m voting no on Amendment 87.
Amy Brandenburg retweeted
Thanks @SpaceX for the ride. Our first Otter is officially in orbit!
I see you Stridar 👀
U.S. Navy Is Going Unmanned
Hard Tech Headlines:
- @Lunasonde, developing deep-underground sensing technology, has partnered with nuclear startup @earthineering to explore lunar resources. The MOU focuses on identifying and extracting potential resources beneath the Moon’s surface, including water ice and rare minerals.
- The U.S. Navy is procuring 30 medium unmanned surface vessels, with 10 each from @Saronic, @WeAreHII, and Galliano Marine Services.
- @KodiakRobotics has announced Ikea, the major retailer has become the first driverless launch partner, starting autonomous trucking on I-45 in Texas.
- @matternet has unveiled M3, a new autonomous drone delivery platform built for food, retail, healthcare, and industrial logistics. The drone can carry up to 11 pounds within a 10-mile service radius.
- KBR, Inc. has secured a deal with SABIC Agri-Nutrients in Saudi Arabia to supply ammonia production technology for a new large-scale fertilizer complex.
- @DynaRobotics has launched Dyna-2.1, a semi-humanoid robot designed to execute full workflows rather than one-off tasks, such as completing an entire commercial laundry shift.
- Metallus Inc. has secured a deal with the Defense Logistics Agency to supply specialty steel for critical defense applications. The initial delivery order is valued at approximately $125 million.
- The National Nuclear Security Administration has developed a counter-drone program to protect critical U.S. nuclear facilities from unauthorized drones.
- Westinghouse Electric Company, one of America’s largest nuclear companies, has signed an MOU with the University of South Carolina focused on nuclear workforce development, including the potential integration of an AP1000 reactor control room simulator.
- @anduriltech has secured a strategic partnership with Voyager Technologies, which will supply propulsion systems and components for Anduril’s missile and missile-defense programs.
- Stridar, the American unmanned ground vehicle startup, has launched Siderunner Pro, a new modular UGV built for contested logistics and autonomous resupply missions.
ALT Source: Stridar
Big news for @GetTinyHealth! My husband has been a customer through his own health journey, so this one's personal. @cherylyeoh is a force, and we ❤️ backing Austin founders like her!
A month ago, I shared how @GetTinyHealth started in my garage, with my mom hand-packing every kit.
Today, the next chapter: we’ve raised a $33M Series B led by @BCapitalGroup, bringing our total funding to $46M.
From newborns to centenarians, we’re building Tiny Health for you. ❤️
Amy Brandenburg retweeted
Critics show up to tell you what is broken.
Builders show up to create something beautiful and lasting.
In an age of critics, be a builder.
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Crusoe has raised $3.9 billion in Series F, co-led by @Atreidesmgmt, @MubadalaCapital, and @valor Equity Partners.
This capital will help us grow across our AI factories, from large-scale campuses to modular Crusoe Spark units, and continue to innovate with Crusoe Cloud.
The full chain, from electrons to tokens: crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom…
7 days off the AI-discourse treadmill. Jackson Hole → Napa → Denver, sitting with the founders and investors actually building this future.
No feeds. No algorithms. Just beautiful places and long conversations with strangers now friends.
Innovation deserves room to breathe, not a chokehold. To the builders on the front lines and in the trenches: keep going!!
Amy Brandenburg retweeted
DV is taking over @COStartupWeek! On Thursday, we invite you to join us for a DeepTech AI panel at 12, taking the founder leap at 1pm, and a VC Track stacked with 12+ investors all afternoon.
Then we take it after hours at the Denver Art Museum at 6pm. See you there!
Home from the Wyoming Global Technology Summit. Walked away with new besties, entangled minds, and ready to own the challenge!
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Cool that @boomsupersonic will go faster than Earth's rotation, so you could do lunch in NYC and then another lunch in SF :D
Also, future collab idea: Aalo reactors should power clean synfuel production for your planes @bscholl
I've observed that a lot of emerging VCs want to get into the industry to chase the hot deals, the notoriety and wealth potential, or to be a part of changing the world through the founders they back.
But most are not prepared for what I like to call the "The Annual Ops & Compliance Supercycle." Who is going to be responsible for building the backbone of the firm that keeps the machine running behind the scenes, ensuring the lights stay on, timely reporting, LP troubleshooting, and back-office oversight?
It's not sexy, often underappreciated and unnoticed, but it is absolutely critical and essential. Without it, you compromise your stewardship responsibility to your LPs and you'll look sloppy. These things have a compounding effect.
Rainy day and prime spot in Portugal for starting this book. Put it in the cart after seeing @BrentBeshore reference it a few times.
