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clay haddock retweeted
4 years of building a startup in under 2 mins.
We filmed the whole journey on a camcorder - signing our first contract, pivoting, and selling to American Express.
I was 19 when we started. It makes me emotional to watch this back and see how far we've come.
I started posting here last week. A repost from @bgurley led to @danprimack highlighting Devyn’s story and our work at Woihanble Fund in Axios today.
So awesome to see Devyn’s work getting this attention.
Read his story
axios.com/newsletters/axios-…
Lucky enough to be mentors & judges for @Hack_Harvard with @marcbaghadjian
He gave possibly the best talk I have ever seen.
This picture was taken a hour after his talk ended.
I tried to turn a @nytimes crossword into a job application.
A friend and I made two puzzles in college. My plan was to get one published, then use the author bio to say I was looking for a job in finance.
The Times accepted the one we liked less.
Someone at @McMasterCarr saw it, and that helped lead to my first full-time job managing a warehouse team.
The job involved more forklifts than I’d originally planned.
Has been awesome to dive into stuff like this.
Can you drill a well wide and deep enough to hold a nuclear reactor?
The answer goes back more than 60 years.
Swipe through the timeline, from the surge in large-diameter drilling in the 1960s, to the injection wells still being drilled today. Our Gravity™ Nuclear Reactor’s deployment plan builds on that record. Our commercial well plan calls for 64-inch casing to 600 feet, 54-inch to 2,300 feet and 44-inch to 6,000 feet, squarely within what the industry has already done.
We are not this hole’s first customer. We are its next one. Read the full white paper in the comments.
Thanks for following $FISN
I cold-emailed @bgurley’s Runnin’ Down a Dream Foundation as soon as its website went live.
I’d started the Woihanble Fund, which gives young entrepreneurs on the Pine Ridge Reservation grants to start and grow businesses. Woihanble means “dream” in Lakota. The overlap felt pretty obvious.
That email became a partnership. They sent books for our cohorts, and one of our grant recipients was also selected for their first grant cohort.
Pretty special to see someone you’ve backed get support from someone you’ve looked up to.
You can buy the book here - penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
I tell every young person I meet who is trying to figure stuff out to read it!
Last November, @AndrewYang got on my train home from @McMasterCarr.
I introduced myself. He invited me to a phone-free party that night. I brought friends, and we ended up talking about nuclear energy.
Pretty good argument for talking to strangers on the train.
At 19, I went to the Amazon by myself to fish.
A friendship from that trip eventually led me to invest in a nuclear startup. This year, I quit my job to join it.
I remain very bullish on going fishing.
clay haddock retweeted
Today we announced a collaboration with Youngquist Brothers to advance and test methods for constructing large-diameter, deep boreholes for Deep Fission's underground deployment model.
Youngquist has been drilling large-diameter boreholes since 1971, to depths of more than 8,000 feet.
"Working with an established commercial driller lets us advance the drilling side of our approach using equipment and expertise that already exist in the field, rather than starting from scratch," said Liz Muller, CEO and Co-Founder of Deep Fission.
On September 3, our teams completed a related equipment demonstration in Fort Myers, Florida, lowering our 30-inch full-size prototype reactor canister into a 34-inch borehole to a depth of approximately 100 feet, then retrieving it. The demonstration focused on installation and retrieval mechanics, distinct from the full-depth drilling work intended to be covered by the collaboration.
"What Deep Fission requires for its nuclear application is the same discipline we've always applied," said Harvey Youngquist, CEO of Youngquist Brothers.
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