I am excited to announce Durin! Durin is my plan to solve the biggest challenges in mining, discovering mineral deposits necessary for national security and clean energy in record time and cost efficiency.

end-of summer gundo bonfire this friday 7:30pm at Dockweiler

Back to work with the boys @jasonjoyride @ADoricko @ti_morse @OHichwa @codyaims @tfeldmann @isaiah_p_taylor

I’m so lucky to be an American, a friend, and an industrialist.

Huge milestone

America’s greatest accomplishments are all downstream from our ability to advantageously re-arrange molecules. From skyscrapers to nuclear power, stealth fighters to oil refineries. Engineering is, in fact, one of the most uniquely American activities one can engage in.

Rainmaker just produced ~19M gallons of water in Alaska via next-gen cloud seeding over 3 hours of operations. We are the first company to provably produce precipitation in Alaska. As promised, we’ve linked our white paper and relevant data. In the future, Rainmaker will protect and restore glaciers with man-made snowfall. Immediately, this demonstration shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months. We turned around this analysis and white paper just a couple days after operating. There are many data sources I want to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and increase our provable production; we’re building the instruments to collect that data in subsequent operations. But at Rainmaker, we won’t tout LOIs, simulations, or lab tests. What matters is physically measuring that you’ve affected the atmosphere; proving that we’ve produced water. We prefer sharing only the tech that has proven to make more water for farms, industries, and ecosystems in need. Expect a regular cadence of these from us as we build the best atmospheric science lab in the world. Feedback is welcome in the interim. Rainmaker Century. rainmaker.com/blog/alaska-va…

We make critical structures for the western world. The AI we're building runs on data you can only get by being on the factory floor and not in ivory towers. I'm hiring software and manufacturing engineers. Team is ex @SpaceX, @PalantirTech and @DeptofWar. If this fires you up DM. Time to build.

GUNDO SUMMER BONFIRE FRIDAY at 8:30 w/ @zanehengsperger FIRE AND TACO TRUCK SIGN UP BELOW/DM FOR LOCATION

.@tfeldmann showed me his collection of vintage mining ads, this one from Caterpillar floored me In the 70s bigco could 1) show you three hundred words in an ad 2) make a sincere point about tradeoffs "There are no simple solutions. Only intelligent choices."

America’s greatest strength has always been our innovators and our workforce. Thanks to @POTUS’ leadership, we are meeting this moment by investing in the next generation of American talent to lead the mining industry, strengthen our supply chains, and power our future.

Gundo builds hardware by day, bonfires by night. Happy birthday @jakobdiepen & @tfeldmann.

GUNDO SUMMER bonfire tmrw 8:30pm. Sign up at link below for location

The latter half of last year, I was interviewing at NYC trading firms and SF software companies, looking for something that sparked my career fire again. I had felt bored and restless at my last job for a while. None of my interviews felt right. I took Christmas off of interviewing, hoping a little break would give some clarity. Early this year on X, I found the hard tech world and the Gundo. I was enthralled with the idea of American flags hanging in factories and the dedication to solving physical problems. The Discipulus Accelerator's values were a breath a fresh air. I watched countless hours of founder interviews. I applied a bunch of places, sent some handwritten notes. Finally, one company gave me a chance. I flew to LA to interview. Following that, I built in a day after of explore time to see if I could live here. The plan was to visit the South Bay beach cities. I was Gundo-curious, so started there but moving south. Mid-morning I tweeted this tweet: nitter.net/papaltech/status/20567…. Charlotte fired back: “true” and I replied (10:37). By 10:46, I had a DM from my now colleague, the Head of Talent, and at 10:53 we were on a call. It felt (and may well have been) providential. A 45 minute chat later, it already felt like we were old friends. Later that day, I was in their office interviewing. That’s how I ended up spending nearly the entire day just walking El Segundo. My morning side quest to X’s notorious hard tech nexus had just become the main quest. I later had to hustle my rental Honda Odyssey through the rest of the beach cities just to see them. 6 weeks later, I was driving 395 from Tahoe to LA to start a new job. That’s something I never thought I’d say. Today, our main internet provider (Spectrum) stopped working. I got the spend the day pulling wires through brick walls to run them to the roof, collecting dirt on all of my clothes, and trying to figure out why the heck another Starlink mini wasn’t connecting while also hanging off the ladder of a camper trailer. It was awesome. I cannot wait to get into the field. If you’re young and in your next job search, ask, “How much of an adventure could/will this be?” If the answer is “eh”, maybe find one where the answer is “I don't know for sure if what they're trying to do is even possible?” Also, you never know what stone X (and God!) might turn over for you.

Child or not come join the mission For legal purposes this is a joke

It's time to mine! Come join us.

Durin is hiring Mechanical Engineers. Portion of future roadmap below. Join a killer team in El Segundo to build the equipment that will run the mines of the 21st century. DM me or apply at jobs.durin.com/.

"The citizens of America, placed in the most enviable condition, as the sole lords and proprietors of a vast tract of continent, comprehending all the various soils and climates of the world and abounding with all the necessaries and conveniences of life, are now, by the late satisfactory pacification, acknowledged to be possessed of absolute freedom and independency. They are from this period to be considered as the actors, on a most conspicuous theater, which seems to be peculiarly designated by Providence for the display of human greatness and felicity." –George Washington to the States, June 8, 1783 Happy Independence Day, let’s make it to 2,500 🇺🇸

Best early-stage fund and proud to be part of Cohort I. Well done @jakobdiepen

Gundo bonfire and REAL CRAWFISH boil this Friday at 8pm! RSVP at link below or DM for info. Don't miss out...

Unstoppable. Well done @isaiah_p_taylor and team