founder & executive chairman @lookout
Los Angeles
Joined August 2008
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The signals are there if you look carefully. @xai is going to win.
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530A accounts ("Trump Accounts") are a great solution for many ultra-wealthy Americans who are philanthropically inclined, do not want a foundation staff, do want to give while living, and haven't been inspired by existing nonprofits. It's an American version of “GiveDirectly."
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> 14.0k order in DDG2 (most by far)
> Only company to receive orders in both missions (LR + CQB)
> 5.2k order in DDG1 (most by far)
> 2x DDG1 bonus order because they filled entire order ahead of schedule ... twice
> ArcherAI shipped
> Bandit (cUAS) on the way
> Creating the American Drone Industrial Base (can't reindustrialize something that's never existed)
> Ready to scale to 1mm drones per year when DoW is
The successive wins from Neros has turned my account into a fan page. They just keep winning.
Join the mission!
Neros has officially received a $100 million order for 14,000 drones and explosive payloads from the @DeptofWar for our performance in Drone Dominance Gauntlet II.
We’ve also received a second bonus order for an additional 800 drones tied to Gauntlet I, reallocated from other competitors who couldn’t meet the production deadline for their orders.
Gauntlet II orders are split between Archer AI, our flagship autonomy-enabled 10” drone, and Archer 5”, a smaller variant built for close quarters battle scenarios including urban and indoor settings.
We’re proud to be the only manufacturer to have placed top three in both Gauntlet II mission sets, and are already fulfilling this next tranche of orders.
Onward to Gauntlet III.
I could not be more proud to be supporting @neuralink
This company genuinely is bending the arc of human progress
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I went to @Biograph and got probably the most data I’ve ever gotten about my body
Some good news, some things I need to work on
If you want to get healthy and live longer, I made a new YouTube video on what I did 👇
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Privileged to be a major investor in @boringcompany Series D and to have helped scale the team for 5 years.
Vegas Loop proved what’s possible. With the $3B raise, TBC is expanding to many more cities in the US and abroad.
This is a rare moment to join the team and help bring Loop to the next 100 cities.
We are inviting a select group of exceptional engineers and operators to an all expenses paid, behind the scenes tour of the Vegas Loop on Sunday, Oct 18.
Years of experience is not a filter. New grads and dropouts should apply.
Apply by Oct 1
BoringDayInVegas.com
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The Boring Company is pleased to announce our Series D funding round of $3 billion, led by the United Arab Emirates. The financing now values The Boring Company at $23 billion.
Other key investors in the round include Human Capital, Vy Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, A16Z, Temasek, Shamal Holding, and Baron Capital, in addition to other valued existing and new investors.
Full details here:
boringcompany.com/series-d
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Introducing Grok 4.6.
It delivers frontier intelligence and is a significant improvement over Grok 4.5 at the same price.
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Today, we announce our Series C Funding of $250M at $2.5B post money valuation to scale our Autonomous and Interceptor drone programs.
This round of funding is co-led by Sequoia Capital and American Strategic Technology Fund (ASTF) with participation by Interlagos, Valor Equity Partners, Allen & Company, Thiel Capital, Spark Capital, and Dylan Field.
These funds will accelerate the development and production ramps for new drone programs including Archer AI, an FPV platform augmented with autonomy features including Terminal Guidance and GPS-denied Position Hold, and Bandit, a c-UAS interceptor drone intended to counter Class 2 and 3 drone threats including Shahed-style systems.
These platforms are being developed with the hardware and compute required for multi-asset control (often called “swarming”) while retaining the cost efficiency Neros is known for – and that’s essential to achieving true attritable mass.
Both Archer AI and Bandit will be deployed for combat by the end of 2026.
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Announcing Grok 4.5, our first model trained specifically for coding and agents. It was trained with Cursor and offers frontier intelligence at leading speeds and cost efficiency.
x.ai/news/grok-4-5
One of the most significant philanthropic gifts in history. @Gwynne_Shotwell is accelerating the American dream by making two million American children a shareholder in @SpaceX through @InvestAmerica24
My husband and I are honored and thrilled to participate in the Invest America program and gift a share of our SpaceX stock to a Trump Account for each of more than two million children across our great nation.
Every American child under 18 can benefit from having a Trump Account, but our gift specifically goes to the Accounts of children (ages 11-17) that live in areas with lower average household incomes with a bit more emphasis for those that live near our central Texas home.
We have been fortunate in our careers and hope this gift encourages the next generation to continue the journey of enabling humanity to live and fly amongst the stars.
A huge thanks to all that worked to bring this incredible program to life.
Opportunity is everywhere is America 🇺🇸
Introducing BuildFreedom.US, where hundreds of thousands of AI-proof six-figure jobs are just waiting.