Building an inspiring future šŗšø // applied AI entrepreneur & founder, proudly based in New Hampshire š”šļø #livefreeordie #buildinNH
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
Incredibly honored to have such a strong line up for Freedom Summit! Two days for the people building whatās next in biology, energy, housing, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Day 1: Frontier biology, longevity, and the freedom to experiment. What becomes possible when we unlock human potential.
Day 2: Energy, housing, startups, and community at scale. Infrastructure for an abundant future ā and the people pulling it off.
ā¢ Governor Kelly Ayotte (day 1 headline speaker)
ā¢ @jhitchco ā General Partner, New North Ventures. Startup founder/investor best known for co-founding Dyn.
ā¢ @mansharamaniā CEO, Goodwell Foods. Economist and author helping leaders navigate uncertainty.
ā¢ @DeanKamen ā Inventor / Entrepreneur. Founder of DEKA and FIRST with major robotics and medical-device contributions.
ā¢ @RepKeithAmmonā NH State Rep / Technologist. Legislator and advocate for AI, blockchain, Bitcoin, and emerging tech.
ā¢ Bill Spellane ā Co-Founder & CEO, @StarcubeTech. Builds advanced nuclear microreactors for resilient clean power.
ā¢ @pardzz_ā VP of Product, Arc. Product leader building financial tools for startups and founders.
ā¢ Benjamin Sachs, RA ā Architect & Design Leader, Reframe Systems. Focused on housing innovation through advanced manufacturing.
ā¢ Julie Demers ā Executive Director, @NHTechAlliance. Connects entrepreneurs, innovators, educators, and investors across NH tech.
ā¢ @Ryan_G_Lambert Founder & AI/ML Lead, DNNR. Builds creator-matching and monetization systems.
ā¢ @Vikas_Enti ā Co-Founder & CEO, Reframe Systems. Building AI-powered robotic microfactories for net-zero homes.
ā¢ @jack_potvin ā Founder & CEO, Business Automation Technologies. Helps organizations use AI and automation to improve ops and CX.
ā¢ Philip Magnuszewski āĀ Founder & AI community builder
ā¢ John Roth āĀ UNH Olson Center
ā¢ Adam Coughlin ā York IE
It's shaping up to be 2 days like New Hampshire has never seen ā plus affinity dinners, happy hours, and an epic closing party.
Apply to join us: freedomsummit.tech/
Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
Announcing Freedom Summit: The tech conference New Hampshire has been waiting for!
On August 20ā21, founders, investors, technologists, students, scientists, operators, and curious builders from across the country are coming to Manchester, NH for Freedom Summit.
Itās a summit for builders, by builders ā high-signal, community-first, and focused on the future of science, technology, energy, housing, and entrepreneurship.
š§¬ Day 1: Bio Innovation
š Day 2: Built Futures
Come for one day or both. Stay for the affinity dinners, big ideas, new friends, and an epic closing party.
New Hampshireās startup ecosystem has been growing quietly for years.
Freedom Summit is a chance to bring that energy together and show whatās possible when ambitious people gather here.
This is for the founder looking for their next co-founder or investor.
The student looking for inspiration or an internship.
The operator looking for their next big opportunity.
The investor looking for the next world-class company to back.
And anyone who believes the future can be better if we build it.
Some of the best opportunities in life happen because you happened to be in the room. Freedom Summit is going to be one of those rooms.
šļø Applications are open now. Early bird pricing ends July 15.
freedomsummit.tech/
Weāll see you in Manchester, NH!
Help us spread the word! @jhitchco @TJEvarts @jack_potvin @Ryan_G_Lambert
Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
Come build in New Hampshire. Iāll help you move.
No state sales, income, dividend, capital gains, or estate tax. Just property tax.
šNear Boston and NYC.
āļøRight to Try (medical)
ā¢ļø56% of energy from nuclear
šPolitically balanced
Weāre building Freedom Village ā a new neighborhood for entrepreneurs to live
My take on Californiaās āOne-Timeā Billionaire Tax. Itās much worse than it looks.
š Will it pass? Yes, likely.
It only needs 50%+1 voter approval. SEIU + CTA have done this beforeāProp 55 won 63% in 2016.
āļø Will it get tied up in litigation?
Almost certainly. Retroactive wealth tax on a tax type CA has never had = due process challenges. Billionaires have the legal budgets for years of fights.
š But itās clearly ā¦ only the start. The goal is an annual tax, not one-time. And the target is $25m-50m net worth folks, including illiquid foldings (early stage founders raising a Series B).
The āone-timeā framing is strategic, not terminal.
The same coalition (CTA, CFT, SEIU) already has AB 259 writtenāan >annual< 1% wealth tax at a >$50M threshold<, with plans to go to $25M. Itās been introduced 3 years running.
The one-time tax removes the constitutional barrier. Once thatās gone, the annual version becomes a much easier ballot measure.
š CA Policy Center said: āIf SEIU hopes to keep Medi-Cal spending growing, it may need to place repeated wealth taxes on the ballotāpotentially lowering the threshold as billionaires flee.ā
The real risk for founders:
At $1B, youāre taxing ~200 people. At $50M, youāre taxing 23,000 householdsāincluding most successful founders on paper before any liquidity event.
The rational move isnāt to leave when you hit the threshold. Itās to leaveāor never incorporate in CAābefore you get anywhere close.
āļø Net net: it will make sense to leave before the Series B.
Vinod Khosla nailed it: āEven people who donāt expect this initiative to pass are still planning to leave because there will be another one.ā
The one-time tax is the constitutional Trojan horse. The annual tax ā at a much lower threshold ā is already waiting inside.
Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
I donāt think people realize an entire generation of young builders are watching āimpossibleā happen daily.
Donāt underestimate inspiration.
America is just getting started.
Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
The single biggest question in the world right now is: How is Elon Musk so effective?
Marc Andreessen gives some nice personal anecdotes of what he's seen Elon do.
Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
It's the creator's job to hide complexity from the consumer.
Take writing. As a writer, your task is to simplify and distill your message until you're left with only the essence of what you're trying to say.
The reader's experience should be frictionless. The sentences should flow. The structure should be intuitive. Getting there requires a lot of editing, deleting, and rearranging that the reader will never appreciate āĀ and that's the point.
This leads to the Paradox of Creativity: Your work is done when it looks so simple that the consumer thinks they could've done it, which means they won't appreciate how hard you worked.
Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: This is an announcement that has been decades in the making.
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On December 5, 2022 a team from DOE's @Livermore_Lab made history by achieving fusion ignition.
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This breakthrough will change the future of clean power and Americaās national defense forever.
Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
We have $30 trillion of debt.
Politicians have somehow convinced themselves it doesn't matter, but don't let them convince you of that--it's not true.
We are planning to add a trillion more each year.
We are on a very bad path, and the only good way out is economic growth.
Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
Not knowing is not a bad thing like they teach you in School. It is an opportunity to learn something.
Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
8 out of the 9 top stories on NYTimes are negative right now. Google News even worseā¦. I know there are serious problems in the world but I wonder if itās healthy for the billion+ people online to read largely negative news about the world every dayā¦
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Jack Ryan Potvin retweeted
At Steve Jobsā funeral Jony Ive said: āI think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily just squished.ā
So protect young ideas like a bird protects its eggs.
Later, they can fly.
