starting a housing revolution building the foundation a dignified life depends on
Austin, TX
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Time to build.
We are launching Uplift, backed by a $7M seed led by @a16z.
We build homes the way cars are built: on a production line.
250 years ago Adam Smith wrote that lodging couldn't travel. A coat is made in one place and worn in another. A home never has. He was right for 250 years. We intend to prove him wrong.
My co-founder @trevoroleary and I built at SpaceX and Tesla. We're applying the same playbook used for Starlink and Cybercab to housing: design for manufacturing, ship volume, drive cost down with each version.
Over the next 3 months we'll deploy our first homes and scale toward a production rate that could rival the largest car companies in the world. Enough volume to house thousands, then millions per year. Enough to move rent.
We are hiring engineers. We are taking orders.
It was a great week in DC! Thanks for the invite @HUDgov and we hope to continue the conversation to make millions of Uplifts for our fellow Americans 🇺🇸🇺🇸
.@americanhousing from Austin, TX, and @UpliftCorp from Austin, TX highlighted retrofitted transport containers, componentized building systems, and self-leveling, off-grid microhomes to expand affordable housing options.
See what RA Ashlea Quinonez had to say. hud.gov/news/hud-no-26-077
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sweet video from @realtordotcom of @UpliftCorp at the @HUDgov Innovative Housing Showcase! Goes through the home we engineered for @SecretaryTurner and his team as we seek making millions of these for our fellow Americans
youtube.com/watch?v=iZJqpdGD…
Thank you @HUDgov and @SecretaryTurner … an amazing week for the team and this country! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
In and out in 100 seconds… thank you to @HUDgov and @SecretaryTurner for inviting us to the 2026 HUD Innovative Housing Showcase… @UpliftCorp is ready to make a new type of home for America and scale it to millions per year… so much more to come…
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Deployed and online in 100 seconds… come see @UpliftCorp on the National Mall at the @HUDgov Innovative Housing Showcase tomorrow!
and we were pulling 1,000W on the roof to charge us up!
Okay, this kind of working from home is pretty sweet… maybe just for the week at the @HUDgov Innovative Housing Showcase! Come check out @UpliftCorp . We deployed it here in 100 seconds.
If anyone wants to come check out the product/factory in Austin, please be sure to reach out! We are here every day.
it has been 99 days since @UpliftCorp pitched and won the 2026 @mit100k competition.
Since then we raised a $7M seed led by @a16z, got a factory in Austin TX, hired 10 fantastic engineers / builders, sold our first units, got invited to the HUD Innovative Housing Showcase on the National Mall, and are about to complete the first unit in the new factory that we will show to the world and deliver to a paying customer in September.
wild times and trying to do more
Uplift retweeted
Everyone debates whether the US is short 4 or 10 million homes. Wrong fight imo.
Austin has surplus inventory while the Northeast can't build fast enough. The problem isn't the total count, it's that homes can't go where the demand is. Housing should move on demand and it should be dignified and affordable.
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the marginal cost of recovering, refurbishing, and redeploying a dignified home must be reduced and then provided at scale
this will make a very meaningful dent on not only the quality of life of our least fortunate, but will ultimately drive the average cost of housing down for all Americans
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Alright I am getting into the social media game now
I left @SpaceX's @Starlink last year to build the foundation a dignified life depends on
Millions of people are one disaster, one eviction, one bad month away from having nowhere to go. We're building something engineering-focused and physical for moments like that. At scale in America.
More to come.