James Currier

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Did you know that humanity has never launched a spacecraft to another star? That is about to change! I'm super excited to share that my cofounders, @AdiOltean, @EzraFeilden, and I, have created a non-profit to attempt to send humanity’s 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿… and we need your help! We have formed a non-profit called The @FermiExplorer Mission with the goal of launching a minimum viable spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system, leaving in 3 years and arriving in around 80,000 years. We hope it will be both the first spacecraft to leave Earth for another star, and the last to arrive, as per this concept video! The mission is intended to make the idea of interstellar travel real, and to encourage more people to confront one of humanity’s biggest unanswered questions when we look beyond our planet: "Where is everybody?" (the Fermi Paradox) The mission has four high-level objectives: - Aim: To launch the first spacecraft to another star. It should get at least 99% of the way to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, within 80,000 years. - Payload: It should have at least a 1kg, 10x10x10 cm payload. - Schedule: It should launch before the end of 2029 - Cost: It should cost less than $15M to design, build, launch, and operate. The mission was planned with the help of the folks at @astrodigitalgeo, @MattGialich and the folks at @AstroForge, and @alexwg+@matthew_pines physical AI lab PSI, who devised the final mission profile. The mission will be executed by full-time program manager @GarrettJameson, who joins us after 10 years as a US Air Force Officer, in collaboration with a US bus manufacturing partner that will be selected over the coming months. We will need your help to complete the mission, so if the idea of the mission excites you, please check out the Fermi Explorer website in the comments to find out more about why we are doing the mission and how to get involved! Thanks to London Studio @ZeroOneCreative and @ashkan01C for producing the concept video 🙏🙏

Failure modes for founder comp: 1. Underpaying yourself and creating real financial strain on your family 2. Comparing yourself to your peers 3. Becoming a for-hire CEO 4. Feeling like an employee in your own company A framework for one of the hardest early-stage decisions: how much to pay yourself, from @omri_drory:

Introducing Voyage, the first platform to fulfill the promise of AI games. Voyage lets you one-shot an entire world with characters that feel alive, memory that lasts forever, and the structure and challenge needed to make an actually fun game. From the creators of AI Dungeon, the next generation of AI games is here.

There is a new industrial revolution coming in energy, physical AI, and materials. Remaking this layer will change how everyone builds with AI. We boil the opportunity for startups down into 2 ideas: 1) Energy 2) Action Where to build via @AnnaPinol_ and @valerie_osband:

10 months ago we spun F2 out of Arc with a $10M pre-seed. Nascent tech, no traction. Today: live across 100+ credit funds and banks (Bain Capital, Live Oak). MAUs up 650%. Deals up 10x YTD. We just raised $14M to double down. Come Build with us.