I never do these on Twitter because it's too overwhelming but... AMA?

founder @vardaspace village idiot @foundersfund

Answered half or so, will do the rest after dinner!

Funding great companies and just hired Sam Blond!

Who's a favorite historical figure of yours?

product design(er) | startup advisor | casting in /meesh and /product-design | prev. @ reddit, okta (personal), lilblockparty.wtf, common.xyz, etc.

HI FRIEND 👋 what do you miss most about San Francisco?

Principal at Cobalt Ventures. Write @ TheItinerant.io ; BenErsing.com Host: /venturecapital /finance /adventures

What kind of plane are you planning to do your flight hours in?

Chasing Curiosity. Empathetic Accelerationist. Founding Engineer @icebreaker. YC S16, KB7. 
Icebreaker.xyz/tayyab

1. What’s your preferred lane in League of Legends?

2. Favorite champion?

3. And who is the most annoying to play against?

building products /neynar, hacking /farhack, sharing thoughts /dylan | dylansteck.com

It has been pretty difficult generally on my mental + physical health. I've worked through more weekends in the past 2 years than the prior decade combined...

However, the split role has been immensely beneficial to both sides, I'm a better investor and founder because of it

how has it been dividing your time between Varda and FF?

builder @ stanford // varunshenoy_.twitter

HIRING GREAT PEOPLE IS ALL THAT MATTERS
HIRING GREAT PEOPLE IS ALL THAT MATTERS
HIRING GREAT PEOPLE IS ALL THAT MATTERS
HIRING GREAT PEOPLE IS ALL THAT MATTERS
HIRING GREAT PEOPLE IS ALL THAT MATTERS
HIRING GREAT PEOPLE IS ALL THAT MATTERS

:)

Most impactful thing you learned from co’s you saw in FF that you directly applied to Varda?

Founder of 0xCareers.io, a Job Board for Web3 and a free and weekly NFT newsletter called AlphaSchedule.io - Marketeer - Publishing memes and jokes as I go.

1) I'm not particularly interested in web3, I just like @dwr.eth 
2) Marrying my wife
3) Watch/Play League of Legends, Watch Bulgarian TV

1) What makes you passionate about the web3 space?
2) Whats your biggest achievement so far?
3) What do you do to relax?

"Qu'est-ce que la vie? Une halte dans l'antichambre de la mort."

Go work for Keith a few years earlier... that was the big inflection point

Finding that mentor that's on your same wavelength is such a gamechanger!!

What would you do if you were 20 years old again today?

Thanks for doing this! Big fan of your work.

Building Farcaster for teams @crew Midwest mom in a California dad bod 

Skeptical re-entry as a service becomes commercially viable anytime soon

We'll build it for our own use case and offer it to the DoD

Skeptical any of the independent re-entry players survive the current market conditions...

How long until re-entry as a service is sub $100k/pound

fractalist. tech lead at cabin.city. founder of LBRY.com, Odysee.com, vibe.camp, @farcon, grin.io

Private Pilot Flight School

YouTube opened to my fav League of Legends streamers (Doublelift + DirtyMobs)

Twitter

A few Docsends

Google Calendar

What tabs are open in your browser right now?

FID 83. Investor at TCG Crypto. Farcaster power user. nf.td/gaby

not optimizing for learning early enough

was too obsessed with ego/status

What’s the biggest mistake you made in your career?

bringing onchain communities together • events.xyz (@event) 🍊

Industrial equipment cyber attacks

A la the Iranian centrifuges...

What vectors of attack by foreign powers are we as a society ("we" being the American mainstream) most under-preparing for and/or overlooking?

Surrogacy resort

To solve the fertility problem and create a platform that is best suited to work on the roadmap for artificial wombs

If you are not working on Varda Space Industries, what would you work on and why?

working on /receipts (workout. earn points. v2.receipts.xyz) // nf.td/victor

apologies can't say much here yet per my own created Varda comms policy BUT

can share this :)

https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/6317e24e3e2e3657d92d3e00

which industry/product will be changed the most by in-space manufacturing?

pharmaceuticals?
semiconductors? 
fiber optics?
something else?

cofounder @DeepALTR (acq. by Commsor).   building better cultures>>better communities>>better outcomes  https://twitter.com/ngaurav38  community x crypto x saas

Much more!

Capitol Hill and DoD are understanding startups better than ever before

Long way to go, but the first derivative is very positive

Has your trip to Washington & meeting legislators given you more or less hope in our political institutions understanding the problems of the future?

have jobs as early as possible, do serious summer jobs once you turn 16

spend ages 16-26 trying lots of different types of jobs

I would've never guessed that VC was going to be my thing if not for giving it a shot (originally agreed to only do 1 yr @ age of 24), now 5 yrs in!!

general advice for people in their early career years (i.e. things you wish you would've known/done earlier)? also for broader life stuff if applicable