Cultivating a visionary vanguard of founders solving America's hardest problems in El Segundo. Apply to the Cohort in bio!
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Fall Cohort apps open now! Apply below.
250 years ago, a small group built something the world had never seen: America. 🇺🇸
That spirit never died. In 2002, @elonmusk moved into a warehouse in El Segundo and proved Americans could still build the impossible.
A generation of companies was born from that building. They're still being built here today.
If you're building something your family and your country will be proud of, come to the Gundo and build what you need to. Apply for the Fall Cohort below.
Deadline July 17th.
Featuring @jordannoone and @jordan__black
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🇺🇸 The Race for Hyper Techno Industrialism w/ @isaiah_p_taylor (CEO, @valaratomics) & @shaunmmaguire (Partner, @sequoia)
A conversation from the @DiscipulusVent Cohort in El Segundo.
Including:
> Why the best builders are congregating in the Gundo
> Hyper techno industrialism & the race against China
> Why hardware will look like software did 20 years ago
> How China actually plays the game
> OSC, raw material subsidies, & catching up
> The Caltech wind tunnel fluke that built SoCal hardware
> What’s next: biology, robotics, & gigawatts at a cent
> Why everyone is underestimating the hardware buildout
Highlights:
(00:00) The race for hyper techno industrialism
(01:07) Why El Segundo: touring every US hard tech hub
(02:15) You bump into great engineers in the Gundo
(03:07) A generation that wants to build things that matter
(04:08) 10 to 100 to 100,000: the race against China
(05:22) Hardware is about to look like software 20 years ago
(06:50) How China really plays the game
(08:38) OSC & subsidizing the supply chain
(09:43) Catching up vs. winning in the net new
(10:45) Americans as the world’s best product engineers
(11:31) Subsidizing raw materials & the Inconel problem
(13:20) Growing up with SoCal as America’s defense base
(14:31) The macro rotation back to hardware
(16:13) The Caltech wind tunnel fluke
(17:46) Designed in El Segundo, scaled in Texas
(18:13) The founding cohort of crazy people
(19:07) What’s next: biology & robotics infrastructure
(20:03) Start what seems a little crazy today
(20:23) Cheap energy & the aluminum lesson
(21:55) We’ll need 100x what people think
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The @DiscipulusVent Fall Cohort just wrapped up in Gundo. 🇺🇸
Joined by @isaiah_p_taylor, @shaunmmaguire, @ADoricko & more throughout the week.
9 hardtech teams building for the American Interest. Companies below 🧵👇
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🚨 LIVE from DAY FOUR of the @discipulusvent Cohort in Gundo.
The Most Important PR Advice for Hardware Founders: @ADoricko, Founder & CEO of @Rainmaker
We cover:
>Using X to share your mission and your real views
> How posting as a human attracts zealous talent & investors
>Turning big announcements into mainstream credibility
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🚨 LIVE from DAY THREE of the @discipulusvent Cohort in Gundo.
How VCs Should Support Their Founders During Times of Conflict: @shaunmmaguire, Partner at @sequoia
We cover:
>Why VCs should always have their founders' backs
>Verifying the facts before going to war
>Integrity as the line that earns full support
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🚨 LIVE from DAY ONE of the @discipulusvent Cohort in Gundo.
The Most Important Finance Advice for Hardware Founders: Andrew Kreitz, CFO & Co-Founder of @Castelion
We cover:
> Thinking in runway & milestones
> Orienting your raise around major unlocks
> Why "raise at 6 months left" is the wrong rule
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🚨 LIVE from DAY TWO of the @DiscipulusVent Cohort in Gundo.
How do you sell tech to legacy industries?
We asked @tfeldmann, CEO & Founder of @DurinMining.
His answer:
Show your work. Your first prototype won't be perfect. What matters is showing customers the progress, data, and trajectory.
“Slope is everything.”
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🚨 LIVE from DAY TWO of the @DiscipulusVent Cohort in Gundo.
@jimbelosic, Founder & CEO of @sendcutsend, on the importance of early stage hardtech founders getting hardware into the real world.
A thesis is great. A plan is great. But nothing beats having something you can hold in your hands.
“Make it exist, then make it good.”
Discipulus Ventures retweeted
.@DiscipulusVent Fall Cohort Starts Today in El Segundo
Build for America 🇺🇸
More coming soon...
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If you're in LA for LA Tech Week in a few weeks (specifically Oct 14, 8pm), @zanemountcastle (@Picogrid) and I (@DiscipulusVent) invite you to join us for a Gundo bonfire.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Gundo from the inside, so don't miss out.
Register on Partiful below 👇
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🇺🇸 HIRING YOUNG INDUSTRIALISTS:
- 1 Fall Remote Ops Intern (Aug–Oct)
- 3 Cohort Ops Leads In Person (Sept 29–Oct 8).
Help us support our Cohort founders solving America's hardest problems in El Segundo.
If you're mission-driven and organized, apply below.
Discipulus Ventures retweeted
Excited to announce a $30M oversubscribed fund. 🇺🇸
El Segundo is the world's best place to build hardtech and we're the pipeline for founders from across the world coming here to do it.
Joining @tbpn later today to share more.
If you're at the earliest stages of building hardtech for critical industries reach out now!
Link to Axios article in thread.
Discipulus Ventures retweeted
Join us in the Gundo 🇺🇸
Founding investor applications open now. Apply below.
🇺🇸 We're hiring our first full-time team member in the Gundo at @DiscipulusVent
Founding Investor: work directly with me on sourcing, picking companies, running Cohorts, and pitching LPs.
Front row seat to building the best hardtech program in the world.
If you care about American reindustrialization, apply today (link + JD in thread).
El Segundo, CA. In person.
Join us!
🇺🇸 We're hiring our first full-time team member in the Gundo at @DiscipulusVent
Founding Investor: work directly with me on sourcing, picking companies, running Cohorts, and pitching LPs.
Front row seat to building the best hardtech program in the world.
If you care about American reindustrialization, apply today (link + JD in thread).
El Segundo, CA. In person.
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NanduX is building the next generation of sensing technology to unlock South American mining (where the majority of the world's copper and lithium is)
The next critical mineral deposits sit deeper than current exploration tools can see. NanduX is engineering the sensing technology to find them.
Today, @nandux_mining announced plans to deploy muon tomography sensors for mining applications in Chile.
Watch our interview with Sebastian Tapia, CEO of NanduX and part of the @DiscipulusVent Spring Cohort.
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Fuels, chemicals, and plastics are a $6T market that powers EVERY car, plane, factory, and product in modern reality.
Today, they come from oil refineries, or from corn ethanol plants that burn through HALF of America's corn supply.
@DiscipulusVent founder @jared_western & the Western Chemicals team are building biochemical refineries that turn wastewater into the world's cheapest fuels to REINDUSTRIALIZE America🇺🇸
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🇺🇸 EXCLUSIVE: @PalmerLuckey x @DiscipulusVent Spring Demo Day Fireside Chat.
We cover Why El Segundo, Founding Anduril, Defense Tech Incentives, State of Hardtech VC, SVB Collapse, Erebor, Founder Advice, & more.
Highlights:
(00:00) Palmer Luckey
(00:20) Why Anduril chose El Segundo over the Bay Area
(01:20) The Facebook acquisition & Bay Area mercenary problem
(02:43) Building across veterans, Democrats, Republicans & libertarians
(03:33) How the four Anduril founders' roles have evolved
(04:21) "Want to work on tech? Don't start a company"
(06:02) What Palmer learned from Oculus about delegation
(06:44) How not to become Lockheed or Raytheon
(07:33) Why the government rewards being slow & expensive
(09:25) Anduril's real failure mode: becoming Google, not Lockheed
(10:21) The state of hardtech venture capital
(10:55) Why ZIRP killed serious investing
(12:31) The vibe shift toward energy, defense & agriculture
(13:01) Erebor & the SVB collapse that almost killed Anduril
(13:32) Why no American bank is actually aligned with America
(15:18) How Biden accidentally saved Anduril
(17:10) Palmer's one piece of advice for founders
(17:38) Bonus: the One Piece anime fan edit