El Segundo, CA
Joined October 2023
Hahhaha today I dropped out of @USC to go live in a hangar in my Oregon homeland building drones that will succor heaven and earth working harder than I thought possible with people that I love and admire hahhaha @ADoricko
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Unprecedented, unbelievable, but when you meet the team, entirely unsurprising. Jason gets it
When we first visited @RainmakerCorp in 2024, they couldn't seed a single cloud. Now they're in 6 states, made 143M gallons of water last season, and just raised a $100M Series B. S3 spent 48 hours at their Alaska R&D camp to get real answers: how cloud seeding works, and whether it's the future of water infrastructure.
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Toby Fenner retweeted
Rainmaker has raised $100M to become the world’s best lab for weather modification and atmospheric science. Thank you @noavctech @upfrontvc @DCVC @lowercarbon @DreamVenturesVC and other visionary partners. We are aggressively hiring and scaling our research org to create a flywheel of atmospheric data collection, synthesis, understanding, and intervention. We will solve the weather and we will set the stage for the terraformation of Earth. More in my essay below.
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Push code that is visible from space @RainmakerCorp
Rainmaker’s research team has developed a new capability that we are excited to share: Clearing overcast skies in specific meteorological regimes. This will improve aviation safety, solar power generation and more. White paper here: rainmaker.com/blog/cavum-sig…
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Rainmaker already has the largest catalogue of unambiguous seeding signatures in history. I’ve seen this headline before
Rainmaker is the first and only company in history to physically measure and prove that we’re generating anthropogenic precipitation. We have the largest catalogue of unambiguous seeding signatures in history. But, thus far, we’ve been slow to share our data because of the peer-review process. Peer review is great and absolutely useful for scrutinizing new discoveries. However, if we publicize the data from our submitted papers before peer review is complete (which takes a long time!) it reduces the likelihood of our paper’s acceptance in a high impact journal. Rainmaker’s development will continue to outpace conventional journal submission timelines, but we want to share our results. So starting today, we’ll be releasing periodic white papers on our results for all of you to scrutinize! I expect and am excited for lots of scrutiny! When we make step step-function breakthroughs with methods unfamiliar to academia, we will still be more inclined to peer review. This is auspicious timing, as Rainmaker is the first company to physically measure and prove anthropogenic precipitation production in Alaska as of ~36 hours ago. I was lucky enough to be on the operation myself! Our first public white paper on our methodology and results from AK will be up today. I’m stoked to begin sharing more of the insane progress the brilliant scientists, engineers and operators have been making quietly in the last 4 months. More importantly, I’m excited to save the Great Salt Lake and Colorado River with this technology. More on that later. Rainmaker Century
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Rainmaker Century
Rainmaker is the first and only company in history to physically measure and prove that we’re generating anthropogenic precipitation. We have the largest catalogue of unambiguous seeding signatures in history. But, thus far, we’ve been slow to share our data because of the peer-review process. Peer review is great and absolutely useful for scrutinizing new discoveries. However, if we publicize the data from our submitted papers before peer review is complete (which takes a long time!) it reduces the likelihood of our paper’s acceptance in a high impact journal. Rainmaker’s development will continue to outpace conventional journal submission timelines, but we want to share our results. So starting today, we’ll be releasing periodic white papers on our results for all of you to scrutinize! I expect and am excited for lots of scrutiny! When we make step step-function breakthroughs with methods unfamiliar to academia, we will still be more inclined to peer review. This is auspicious timing, as Rainmaker is the first company to physically measure and prove anthropogenic precipitation production in Alaska as of ~36 hours ago. I was lucky enough to be on the operation myself! Our first public white paper on our methodology and results from AK will be up today. I’m stoked to begin sharing more of the insane progress the brilliant scientists, engineers and operators have been making quietly in the last 4 months. More importantly, I’m excited to save the Great Salt Lake and Colorado River with this technology. More on that later. Rainmaker Century
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Great actions speak to all mankind @RainmakerCorp is taking action by ending water scarcity across the globe Become a Rainmaker
Become a Rainmaker. It’s 10:24 PM. Your phone buzzes. Our meteorologists have identified a seeding window in Northern Utah. You’ve got ten hours to turn supercooled liquid water into snow that will feed into the farms and communities that need water now more than ever. 🧵
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>Applications are live now at rainmaker.com/careers >For Forward Operating Specialists, in-person interviews will occur across the country August 10-21 >Hires will be notified on September 1 >Training in Pendleton, OR begins Sept 14, others October 12
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Toby Fenner retweeted
>Applications are live now at rainmaker.com/careers >For Forward Operating Specialists, in-person interviews will occur across the country August 10-21 >Hires will be notified on September 1 >Training in Pendleton, OR begins Sept 14, others October 12
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Job’s not finished
Documentary recapping Rainmaker's historic accomplishment for the Great Salt Lake this past winter We are the first company to repeatedly prove we're making it snow The care, toil, and brilliance of our team was heroic But we still need more water, the jobs not finished
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Toby Fenner retweeted
Mankind has always been at the mercy of the weather. No longer. Rainmaker is the first company in history to routinely, unambiguously, modify the weather. Last quarter, we produced >143MM gallons of unambiguously man-made precipitation. Here’s how we do it 🧵
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Toby Fenner retweeted
Mfw
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE GOT EM
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Today, @DOGECommittee held a closed-door hearing on weather modification. As the leading cloud seeding company in the US, Rainmaker would have loved to participate. Maybe next time! In the interim, some thoughts on the future of water and weather in America:
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BUILDERS WANTED We are looking for a talented mechanical engineer to join our aerosol dispersion team You will take electromechanical systems from prototype to production, work directly with research and UAV dev teams, and bring water to those who need it most. DM me with your most impressive project!
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It’s happening
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The real question isn't whether cloud seeding works (it does). It's whether we'll let fear-driven panic hand yet another technological advantage to China while fear and misinformation write the rules. @RainmakerCorp is working to keep that advantage here.
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America is running dry, forcing farmers out of business. We need clever tech & policy to make water abundant again. I was skeptical of cloud seeding until the overwhelming evidence of its safety and ability to make more water convinced me to dedicate my life to it. Opinion 👇
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Get stopped by foreign police enough times to erode your passport down into a blank blue book. Apply to work as an FDE at Rainmaker
Apply to work as an FDE at Rainmaker
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