A Christian who loves beautiful things, startups, and space. Head of Design @8vc
Austin, TX
Joined December 2009
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Luke Bugbee retweeted
So is thinking behind posts like this that you’ll make avg people despise you enough that the federal govt will massively regulate you and state/local govt will never let you build another datacenter, thus never having to come up w a alignment plan??
Luke Bugbee retweeted
I just tested my hand in a mini version of this scanner. Images that are higher quality than MRI, whole body captured in <1 minute, virtually free to run. This is going to change medicine.
Things get even crazier when you consider the possibility of using the same tank to focus ultrasound to ablate tissue, stimulate nerves, etc.
The FDA is not in the slightest ready for this. People will also complain about incidental findings but they are wrong and don’t understand how quickly software can improve and how inexpensive a time series of scans will be to generate.
Luke Bugbee retweeted
We're hosting this quarter's design meetup NYC. @DrCapsoul whipped up this fun event landing page with a few hidden easter eggs. If you're a ravenously talented designer/design engineer consider joining us! Space is very limited, link below.
Luke Bugbee retweeted
The @8VC design team creates magic. They bring to life companies building across software and the physical world, making the vision something you can actually feel.
Consistently inspired by these guys AND their insane fashion game @DrCapsoul 👀
Luke Bugbee retweeted
Luke 15:3-6
‘Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
Luke Bugbee retweeted
After careful consideration I have decided to root for my own country in the war
Luke Bugbee retweeted
Today, @Saronic announced its $1.75B Series D, at a $9.25B valuation.
Four years ago, @JTlonsdale, Alex Moore, and the 8VC team were exploring a new defense prime. Across the Hill and Pentagon, our DC partners were sounding alarms about America’s maritime future.
We enlisted remarkable leaders, headlined by @MavrookasD (frmr Navy Seal) and @Vbob202 (frmr 8VC Fellow/Anduril), and we started building. The result was Saronic.
Hundreds of vessels and 1000+ crew members later, the shipyards are humming, and the age of naval autonomy is underway.
Luke Bugbee retweeted
In WWII, USA built 18,000 ships in 1943.
Today, we're lucky to break 10. But that’s changing.
@Saronic is rebuilding USA’s Freedom's Forge: hundreds, then thousands of autonomous ships, up to 180 ft long.
Proud to have created Saronic out of @8VC & backed them at each step.
Saronic was founded to redefine maritime superiority for the U.S. and its allies—and today we’re accelerating that mission.
We’ve closed $1.75B in Series D funding at a $9.25B valuation, led by @kleinerperkins with participation from Advent, @BessemerVP, @dfjgrowth, @BAMelevate, @8vc, @caffeinatedcap, @a16z, @eladgil, and @FTI_Global.
This milestone comes at a defining moment for global and economic security. With this funding, we’re scaling the platforms and infrastructure needed to strengthen deterrence, drive economic advantage, and secure maritime superiority for decades to come.
Learn more here: medium.com/saronic-technolog…
Luke Bugbee retweeted
Bedrock is a bet on our civilization.
Autonomous construction will create more jobs overall, and spark massive economic activity and productivity.
Bedrock will help US companies take on countless projects, renew our infrastructure, and build bold, inspiring spaces.
Let’s go 🇺🇸
The largest infrastructure buildout in history is underway, and the workforce to build it isn't growing fast enough.
We've raised $270M in Series B funding, co-led by @CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund (Valor Equity Partners / @Atreidesmgmt ), to keep accelerating toward fully-autonomous excavator deployments on job sites across the U.S.
Luke Bugbee retweeted
I am not an interventionist.
But it's hard to care when the intervention in question lasted two hours, directly benefited national security, had zero US casualties, gained America trillions in oil reserves, and resulted in the citizens of the affected nation all celebrating.
