# ![@somefoundersalt Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1562785792132464644.png) @somefoundersalt Edward

Edward posts on X about spacex, money, in the, entire the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  16.98% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  15.09% [countries](/list/countries)  14.15% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  3.77% [stocks](/list/stocks)  3.77% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  2.83%

**Social topic influence**
[spacex](/topic/spacex) #530, [money](/topic/money) 6.6%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 6.6%, [entire](/topic/entire) 6.6%, [aethero](/topic/aethero) #1, [china](/topic/china) #2352, [the first](/topic/the-first) 5.66%, [solar](/topic/solar) 5.66%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 4.72%, [civilization](/topic/civilization) 4.72%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Boeing Co (BA)](/topic/$ba)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"s/o to the time I tried doordashing lunch from a spot less than a mile away and my driver proceeded to go on Homers Odyssey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1723053738858799206)  2023-11-10T19:03Z [----] followers, 83K engagements


"Second: latency. If you need less bandwidth then you can get data down faster Turning gigabytes into kilobytes means that a downlink that took hours is completed in seconds This lets satellite operators like the DoD instantly see events on the ground as they happen not after"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1770193735823044943)  2024-03-19T21:00Z [----] followers, 23.1K engagements


"Drones can be jammed or shot down Satellites are much harder to blind but used to be limited by latency and high bandwidth Aethero deletes both hurdles to give operators like Space Force an unprecedented tactical advantage We make the sensor-to-shooter chain faster than ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1770193739358916627)  2024-03-19T21:00Z [----] followers, 14.5K engagements


"19 months ago we founded aethero [--] weeks ago we successfully put our first computer in orbit on our own satellite today weve sold our first computers to @NASA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1832149590721884424)  2024-09-06T20:11Z [----] followers, 35.1K engagements


"Proud to announce @AetheroSpace has raised $8.4M led by @KindredVentures alongside @Neo @GiantStepVC @alumniventures @1517fund and @osventuresllc to build compute in space s/o to our angels @JoshuaSteinman @basti @miamishor @sthenc @kayvz and others What comes next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1932482961355722775)  2025-06-10T17:00Z [----] followers, 123.2K engagements


"Payload article from @TimFernholz covering our raise: https://payloadspace.com/aethero-raises-8-4m-for-space-computers/oly_enc_id=7132A4790801F9Q https://payloadspace.com/aethero-raises-8-4m-for-space-computers/oly_enc_id=7132A4790801F9Q"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1932506446375301175)  2025-06-10T18:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"our primary competitive edge as a space company is that we actually make money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1949949497498648668)  2025-07-28T21:46Z [----] followers, 86.4K engagements


"One highly contrarian belief that I now strongly hold is that a overfitting of space companies to defense requirements to the detriment of commercial demand is holding back a lot of progress in the space industry and its good to see others recognizing that as well Defense customers have red tape and esoteric requirements that commercial customers often dont have and their mere existence will considerably drive up unit costs and also have an upward effect on the pricing for commercial customers However once youre in you cant exactly pivot out of defense without sacrificing a massive anchor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2017937925074534538)  2026-02-01T12:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I found the unholy love child between Starlink satellites and CubeSats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2019578178533224908)  2026-02-06T01:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"total ionizing dose concerns in LEO is fake news almost every off the shelf chip you find can achieve [--] krad tid tolerance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2019830479386763575)  2026-02-06T17:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Funniest thing about SpaceX is how theyre talking about ascending to a Kardashev Type [--] civilization while the rest of the space industry has resigned itself to fighting over a sliver of the defense budget for 9% margin and eternal red tape bogging down iteration cycles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2020202242268434462)  2026-02-07T18:25Z [----] followers, 47.4K engagements


"If I was in the space industry Id be looking to replicate a commercial economic engine like Starlink to fund my own grand ambitions. Literally nothing in this industry else matters because the giant in the room will crush you without it. The only opportunity cost here is time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2020202244000649698)  2026-02-07T18:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Elon Musk is a spiritually Chinese industrialist (and thats a very good thing) @JessePeltan More people should visit China @JessePeltan More people should visit China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2020389560182796774)  2026-02-08T06:49Z [----] followers, 77.4K engagements


"@cunha_tristan @SandyofCthulhu Difference between a blast of directed energy vs kinetic energy. Like how a bulletproof vest can stop a bullet but not knives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2020911655807484041)  2026-02-09T17:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The past year has seen setback after setback in the British space industry and it is sad to see Where are the men who sailed oceans Who tamed a quarter of the world Who faced down a united Europe and won twice A great loss for the future of humanity indeed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2021753156745802051)  2026-02-12T01:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ill note that even Elon and Google are following the approach of a distributed orbital data center across multiple satellites that we pitched a year ago at Aethero versus the gigastructure concept Total @AetheroSpace victory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1985854799603253301)  2025-11-04T23:40Z [----] followers, 15.8K engagements


"@jpFromTlon Replicating a special economic zone will take 2-3 years even with AGI just from scaling up weak supply chains and pummeling human NIMBYs into submission. In a scenario where we get AGI first can we afford 2-3 years before the Chinese get it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2022747476311314523)  2026-02-14T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Remember SpaceX was publicly clear that its goal was Mars even before the first Falcon [--] even flew There should be even more companies driven by civilization-scale visions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2003537595096293490)  2025-12-23T18:46Z [----] followers, 19.7M engagements


"If you dont want Elon Musk to leverage SpaceX into a total monopoly over the entire space industry do it by executing better than him and beating him fairly in the arena Using regulations to batter SpaceX into pieces is self-defeating and lame Elon Musk has a dream of leveraging SpaceXs dominant position in space launch into monopolizing data centers and AI we shouldnt let him do it. https://t.co/5NGN88CRLi Elon Musk has a dream of leveraging SpaceXs dominant position in space launch into monopolizing data centers and AI we shouldnt let him do it. https://t.co/5NGN88CRLi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2021256387200983474)  2026-02-10T16:14Z [----] followers, 308.7K engagements


"Apparently many netizens in China also dislike Eileen Gu for being such a naked opportunist and (allegedly) dating a French guy Eileen Gu narrowly denied slopestyle gold after fall on final run at [----] Winter Olympics https://t.co/Aax3501Ces https://t.co/0yN5vvYxnK Eileen Gu narrowly denied slopestyle gold after fall on final run at [----] Winter Olympics https://t.co/Aax3501Ces https://t.co/0yN5vvYxnK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2021990703732277560)  2026-02-12T16:52Z [----] followers, 248.3K engagements


"SpaceX is putting up a million AI satellites Probably not. Instead see it as a genius regulatory play. Let me explain: If youre a player like SpaceX launch or manufacturing isnt going to be a bottleneck. Instead your bottleneck is going to be regulations because the processing time of agencies like the ITU or FCC havent exactly caught up to the pace of companies in the new space age In fact its not uncommon for satellites to be built launch slots to be bookedand then for everything to grind to a halt because some bureaucrat didnt get around to process the paperwork in time Thus many companies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2022435485419999271)  2026-02-13T22:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Been thinking: if the U.S gets AGI first but our industrial base is still rotting away then how can we capitalize on it in a meaningful way Re-industrialization cant occur overnight even with AGI and if China achieves AGI before we can do it our advantage is nullified no look the whole Shenzhen thing finally clicked for me last month when I was trying to explain to some VC why their hardware hub pitch was DOA I'd just gotten back from spending [--] weeks in Huaqiangbei & the contrast with SF was genuinely disorienting the west optimized for scale look the whole Shenzhen thing finally clicked for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2022730278406643997)  2026-02-14T17:50Z [----] followers, 54.6K engagements


"@yoemsri How does AGI print physical infrastructure if there isnt existing input of raw materials and manufacturing base available to it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2022757434113298512)  2026-02-14T19:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"People at AI frontier labs: You only have X years to escape the permanent underclass. Of course well be part of the permanent overclass. Escaping is for you to worry about. Also people at AI frontier labs: Why does the general population despise us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2023103282265329915)  2026-02-15T18:33Z [----] followers, 28K engagements


"Mongol-Song War is basically the strongest nomadic empire at its peak versus the weakest industrial civilization 10x more Mongol forces were committed here vs Europe Yet took five decades millions dead and subduing neighboring states to open up multiple fronts before they won"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2023152222276858093)  2026-02-15T21:47Z [----] followers, 76.4K engagements


"@GaryHaubold gedei died while campaigning against the Song and Kublai had to finish it. Mongol forces numbered [------] of which 100-150000 were Mongols and the rest of which were Chinese defectors Song also made extensive use of fortifications at Xiangyang a massive navy and gunpowder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2023177072466878792)  2026-02-15T23:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@JonoMarkley The Song Dynasty had early joint stock companies paper currency mass steel production (not matched until 17th century Europe) gunpowder and even a hospitality industry (theres even contemporary travel guides to Bianjing) Its destruction likely set humanity back centuries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2023183397150195855)  2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"our chinese counterpart has been building for [--] years raised over $100M+ (including a series C last year) and has flown over a dozen orbital missions to flesh out space-based ai capabilities we must close the space computing gap hey look its chinese aethero https://t.co/jOTh3NSwSD hey look its chinese aethero https://t.co/jOTh3NSwSD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1832622605741728228)  2024-09-08T03:30Z [----] followers, 11.9K engagements


"theres a nondescript basement in michigan thats designing building and operating more spacecraft than entire national space agencies you can literally just do things @AetheroSpace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1833310053568549065)  2024-09-10T01:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"fairly convinced at this point that SpaceX is the only thing that stands between us and ceding the entire solar system to China SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely then crewed missions are possible in four years. If we encounter challenges then the crewed missions will be postponed another two years. It is only possible to travel from SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely then crewed missions are possible in four years. If we encounter challenges then the crewed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1838029626821714189)  2024-09-23T01:36Z [----] followers, 51K engagements


"@pronounced_kyle integer overflow from too much bad news has reset the bullish factor on boeing back to 255"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1848830156376576469)  2024-10-22T20:53Z [----] followers, 22.9K engagements


"fun fact: docusign has more employees (7000) than an full strength roman legion at the height of the empire (5200)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1850992399365128531)  2024-10-28T20:05Z [----] followers, 340.2K engagements


"actual question from a vc: if satellites use solar panels and the sun is free then how come operating a satellite also isnt free"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1851393511167553878)  2024-10-29T22:39Z [----] followers, 101.1K engagements


"thinking about that googler who told to me that he forgot how to code after cruising for a decade+ literally cant get another job or do anything except free food and vest something deeply unnatural about it. he is the human equivalent of a wagyu cow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1869547474245013934)  2024-12-19T00:57Z [----] followers, 162.6K engagements


"theres a company in florida restoring a fleet of F-104 fighter jets back into working condition and using them to launch satellites into orbit you can just do shit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1870854445099348300)  2024-12-22T15:30Z [----] followers, 41.9K engagements


"the war in afghanistan cost over $2T which is fucking insane given the inflation adjusted cost estimate of building a stanford torus (a giant orbital ring colony) is only $900B we couldve had [-----] americans living and working off-world for what we spent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1876292354371653842)  2025-01-06T15:38Z [----] followers, 19.1K engagements


"no ad astra without per aspera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1880087370462294260)  2025-01-17T02:58Z [----] followers, 21.3K engagements


"the three jewels of the american empire manifest destiny doesnt sleep and neither should you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1881457219121889735)  2025-01-20T21:42Z [----] followers, 57.7K engagements


"Just remember that God didnt color the solar system red (Mars) white (Moon) and blue (Earth) without reason the three jewels of the american empire manifest destiny doesnt sleep and neither should you https://t.co/RRrcTSVjAr the three jewels of the american empire manifest destiny doesnt sleep and neither should you https://t.co/RRrcTSVjAr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1881478329674645578)  2025-01-20T23:06Z [----] followers, 27.7K engagements


"email european vendor out of office until [----] email american vendor ghosted for [--] months. finally quoted $35k and a year of lead time email chinese vendor charged $800. the lead time is [---] days and its already delivered. they offer their daughters hand in marriage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1885400738651922510)  2025-01-31T18:52Z [----] followers, 140.5K engagements


"fun fact: the yearly USAID budget is almost twice as much as the NASA budget we couldve had a moon base for what was spent. america ceded the stars for this. Weve gotta stop pretending like spending $47 Billion doesnt matter because we spend even more money elsewhere. Thats a gargantuan amount of money. Weve gotta stop pretending like spending $47 Billion doesnt matter because we spend even more money elsewhere. Thats a gargantuan amount of money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1886622756478791733)  2025-02-04T03:48Z [----] followers, 49.4K engagements


"a VC once told me that he was starting a think tank to re-industrialize america and when I asked him if he had manufacturing companies in the portfolio he said no I only invest in B2B SaaS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1898428279809540214)  2025-03-08T17:39Z [----] followers, 60.6K engagements


"me reporting to our VCs that the first aethero satellite mission worked so well that i spent our entire runway to buy a second and third one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1905360784022229152)  2025-03-27T20:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Its fucked that a coin flip when youre [--] or [--] years old can either open up thousands of doors or vastly increase the amount of suffering youll have to endure to achieve high agency & high status paths If youre cracked youll succeed (or just too dumb to quit given that Ive made it this far myself). But youll have to deal with 10x the bullshit just to get halfway as far as a peer from Stanford or MIT. Warm intros None. VC scouts Lol. There will be no handholding or tutorials for you. Disagree Well I dont see Sam Altman speaking at the University of Nebraska or YC setting up future founder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1906494032987209968)  2025-03-30T23:49Z [----] followers, 164.5K engagements


"did not expect one of our suppliers to go sure man wanna buy the whole place instead on another note who needs lots of space grade solar cells"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1914429737633767803)  2025-04-21T21:23Z [----] followers, 27.3K engagements


"poetic that the smallest spacecraft ever designed was intended for the greatest mission in history (reaching alpha centauri)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1917739397354774751)  2025-05-01T00:34Z [----] followers, 21.9K engagements


"going down a rabbit-hole of making tiny chip satellites that weigh in on under [--] grams btw who has a kilometer-wide solar sail and a intercept trajectory to alpha centauri"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1922688911110783338)  2025-05-14T16:22Z [----] followers, 23.7K engagements


"this entire peninsula should be smothered in skyscrapers as thick as manhattan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1923989863373672733)  2025-05-18T06:31Z [----] followers, 171.1K engagements


"@ElmoTheHokage quite frankly the entire city should be ceded to the singaporean government under a reverse foreign aid program"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1924145238831935976)  2025-05-18T16:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Im also excited to mention that our team was selected by AFWERX for a Phase [--] STTR Completed multiple bouts of radiation testing at laboratories around the world And finally built out our first office and clean room on Brannan St (across the street from legends like Kleiner)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1932482980695716038)  2025-06-10T17:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Theres even more but Ill save it for later Aethero was started to build the space computing technologies needed to unlock a truly multiplanetary tech tree The challenge is difficult And it must be done If that appeals to you reach out at info@aethero.com or drop me a DM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1932482984017604807)  2025-06-10T17:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"are your cognitive shields up anon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1936307498593431924)  2025-06-21T06:17Z [----] followers, 50.3K engagements


"@unusual_whales Another twenty trillion to boomers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1943377802054533524)  2025-07-10T18:32Z [----] followers, 55.4K engagements


"the great tyranny of the space industry is that theres only a few business models that work and almost all of them have deeply rooted incumbents everything else needs venture risk and capital for SMB-level returns (third rate primes and sbir mills cant become unicorns) In the space industry no amount of money can buy you success. Look at all the catastrophic failures in this industry who have evaporated hundreds of millions on the path to working technology and a broken business model. In the space industry no amount of money can buy you success. Look at all the catastrophic failures in this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1944066265322070512)  2025-07-12T16:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"two trends are happening [--]. startups will struggle to find founding engineers unless they can match big tech cash comp. we get bigger more dilutive raises [--]. everyone becoming way more mercenary-like. only mission is getting the bag. huge loss for the startup ecosystem. shame. Here is most of what Ive gathered on the Windsurf / Google Deal The founders and dozens of engineers are going to Google. This group along with the preferred shareholders will be sharing the $2.4B headline number. The exact split is unknown but investors are making some money Here is most of what Ive gathered on the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1944207053666627775)  2025-07-13T01:27Z [----] followers, 124K engagements


"Fun Fact: Star Citizen raised over $100M more in funding than Firefly Space company that successfully landed on the Moon irl Star Citizen has now spent [---] million dollars in dev apparently Star Citizen has now spent [---] million dollars in dev apparently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1946997075612447213)  2025-07-20T18:14Z [----] followers, 539.1K engagements


"cant even be mad at this point. all the grifters of silicon valley arent shit compared to the master grifter that is roberts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1946997478932333033)  2025-07-20T18:15Z [----] followers, 27.3K engagements


"@spades_cmd this implies that theyll even finish the game at some point within the 21st century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1947035773192065114)  2025-07-20T20:47Z [----] followers, 12.9K engagements


"@limegpt one of them was the first American spacecraft to successfully land on the moon since [----] the other is a glorified tech demo that exists to extract money from whales and was forgotten by the common man half a decade ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1947037302813073869)  2025-07-20T20:54Z [----] followers, 23.9K engagements


"@DaOfficialVigil assuming that your foes are a paper tiger is just a very very stupid idea for militaries in general"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1948549554204512712)  2025-07-25T01:03Z [----] followers, 14.7K engagements


"some guy at a SF party told me his startup monetized agents so I replied what the fuck is an agent and short circuited his brain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1951074029726781482)  2025-08-01T00:14Z [----] followers, 125.3K engagements


"Im not saying alcohol is good and all but generally SF events where no ones drinking are the worst most striver-type functions to be at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1951087755431436577)  2025-08-01T01:09Z [----] followers, 33.1K engagements


"I wonder if the factory workers building the Iraqi tanks had a sitcom-style rivalry going on with the workers building the Iranian tanks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1951422904333377592)  2025-08-01T23:20Z [----] followers, 82.2K engagements


"I have the highest IQ in the world You want a source My source is the man with the highest IQ in the world HE WROTE THE PAPER LMAOOOO https://t.co/JUbnBueQ2A HE WROTE THE PAPER LMAOOOO https://t.co/JUbnBueQ2A"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1951503088495280415)  2025-08-02T04:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"the ballsiest series A for any defense tech startup is just sitting there for the taking ⚡The U.S. has placed a $25 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro whom it has designated as the leader of the De Los Soles cartel. Nicols Maduro has been accused of drug trafficking into the U.S. https://t.co/9aydE8ArEL ⚡The U.S. has placed a $25 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro whom it has designated as the leader of the De Los Soles cartel. Nicols Maduro has been accused of drug trafficking into the U.S. https://t.co/9aydE8ArEL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1951706828729127224)  2025-08-02T18:09Z [----] followers, 271K engagements


"like it or not its the conscientious men like this who are the backbone of any great civilization he is an object of aspiration and not mockery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1952770322924532214)  2025-08-05T16:35Z [----] followers, 21.1K engagements


"Was talking to a friend who left the hardware space to work in pure software Asked him why he left and he replied that although he liked robots taking his HW job offer meant a 6-fig pay cut We must fix the comp gap if we want to retain the best and seriously re-industrialize gap in comp between industries is insane asking base salary for recent applicants: game physics engine programmer w/ [--] yrs experience + phd from an amazing cs program ($180k/yr) vs. "machine learning engineer" w/ [----] yrs ($360k/yr) from a big lab + undergrad brand name school gap in comp between industries is insane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1953128071642660962)  2025-08-06T16:16Z [----] followers, 21.3K engagements


"rich men in feuds used to meet at a pre-arranged place at the crack of dawn with pistols in hand now they just complain on twitter @elonmusk will you sign an affidavit that you have never directed changes to the X algorithm in a way that has hurt your competitors or helped your own companies i will apologize if so. @elonmusk will you sign an affidavit that you have never directed changes to the X algorithm in a way that has hurt your competitors or helped your own companies i will apologize if so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1955289432292200613)  2025-08-12T15:25Z [----] followers, 21.3K engagements


"@chrissyykat most founders are borderline unemployable anyways"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1955661413667770697)  2025-08-13T16:03Z [----] followers, 36.4K engagements


"I met an old Taiwanese man who claimed to be my long lost relative on the basis of a rare surname and gave me a golden satellite This is clearly some kind of divine omen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1955723960995242222)  2025-08-13T20:11Z [----] followers, 25K engagements


"Dont be fearful of China landing men on the Moon first. We cannot change that conclusion. Instead be fearful of China doing it and the general American populace going meh in indifference. I dont even know how wed recover from that. I went there. Because at this point it's difficult to come to any other conclusion. https://t.co/WczqbDT8uw I went there. Because at this point it's difficult to come to any other conclusion. https://t.co/WczqbDT8uw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1957511035235307521)  2025-08-18T18:32Z [----] followers, 75.2K engagements


"linkedin is the hardest outlet to grow not because its actually hard but because its difficult to stand being on it for more than ten minutes at a time without vomiting from disgust"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1959003279918342507)  2025-08-22T21:22Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements


"Its hilarious how SpaceX and Starlink wound up as a de facto global monopoly by literally being the only ones bold enough to try Starlink satellites are designed built launched and operated from the United States to provide connectivity anywhere on the planet https://t.co/NkcjJw4nDT Starlink satellites are designed built launched and operated from the United States to provide connectivity anywhere on the planet https://t.co/NkcjJw4nDT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1961152085967474818)  2025-08-28T19:41Z [----] followers, 139.1K engagements


"block food shipments to the martian colonies in an attempt to starve them into submission why is there a swarm of tungsten rods headed towards us at 0.005c The book all the journalists refer to in order to dunk on near term space colonisation under the guise of science (which it gets wrong) advocates for an interplanetary homeowners association that attempts to murder anybody who steps out of line or even doesn't want to join. https://t.co/M4nzaeH5XR The book all the journalists refer to in order to dunk on near term space colonisation under the guise of science (which it gets wrong)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1961308268833432006)  2025-08-29T06:01Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements


"everyone hating on this has never met a true astrology girl this shit is gonna print I am excited to announce that Arcarae has $2.5M in funding and I am finally hiring. Arcaraes mission is to help humanity remember and unlock the power each individual holds within themself so they can bring into reality their unique authentic expression of self without fear or https://t.co/Vf06iVRa0K I am excited to announce that Arcarae has $2.5M in funding and I am finally hiring. Arcaraes mission is to help humanity remember and unlock the power each individual holds within themself so they can bring into"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1962232318288130184)  2025-08-31T19:13Z [----] followers, 229.2K engagements


"tech bro is now a pejorative for anything upper middle class but this house does not scream tech bro. it is a home in the austin suburbs thats owned by Jared [--] Oklahoma grad upstanding theta chi alum and regional vice president at altria Very bleak that this new generation of wealthy tech bro man children has me yearning for the era of evil wealthy industrialists who lived in beautiful homes and patronized the arts. Very bleak that this new generation of wealthy tech bro man children has me yearning for the era of evil wealthy industrialists who lived in beautiful homes and patronized the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1962328570208129069)  2025-09-01T01:36Z [----] followers, 41.5K engagements


"my college ex once complained that her math class was too hard so I asked her what class it was and she said accounting 101"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1962730971624808510)  2025-09-02T04:15Z [----] followers, 25.5K engagements


"the most valuable thing in my apartment is now a massive batch of space-grade solar cells that I bought from eBay for forty bucks apiece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1964779623188967574)  2025-09-07T19:55Z [----] followers, 24.2K engagements


"A civil war You want a civil war In your rage you may have forgotten that the United States does not exist in vacuum. That is understandable. But right now were engaged in several existential competitions to win against a foe unlike any that we have seen before. The race goes on for AGI. The race goes on for the Moon. The race goes on for re-shoring manufacturing. These contests require the mobilization of national resources and coordination across state lines. They require thousands upon thousands of engineers scientists and technicians toiling away across both our soil and that of our"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1965965962357911582)  2025-09-11T02:29Z [----] followers, 104.3K engagements


"living in SF has turned me increasingly isolationist as Ive found hermitage to be preferable over dealing with strivers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1971689153386668331)  2025-09-26T21:31Z [----] followers, 32.8K engagements


"We sent six expeditions to the Moon. The Moon in the sky Yes the Moon in the sky. In fact theres rumblings amongst the populace that the Union should annex it as the fifty first state. The fiftywhat If you had one minute to tell a Founding Father about the last [---] years in America what would you say If you had one minute to tell a Founding Father about the last [---] years in America what would you say"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1972815814509375549)  2025-09-30T00:08Z [----] followers, 999.1K engagements


"Your American flag might be bigger than mine but has it been to the Moon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1973578919052976412)  2025-10-02T02:40Z [----] followers, 17K engagements


"Future historians ten thousand years from now will still remember the great civilization who called themselves American one of the hardest photos of all time jeez https://t.co/ltsaTRgM02 one of the hardest photos of all time jeez https://t.co/ltsaTRgM02"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1974223503571157424)  2025-10-03T21:22Z [----] followers, 58K engagements


"In awe at how the UK has an aerospace industry with S-tier talent but goes out of its way to cripple said industry time after time again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1974535161787371908)  2025-10-04T18:00Z [----] followers, 202.5K engagements


"This is why SpaceX will never go public btw A law firm is investigating Firefly for.securities fraud.because its Alpha rocket ka-boomed during testing. Welcome to the world of rockets Glancy Prongay & Murray. And welcome to the public markets show Firefly. https://t.co/eBEkBpNgUO A law firm is investigating Firefly for.securities fraud.because its Alpha rocket ka-boomed during testing. Welcome to the world of rockets Glancy Prongay & Murray. And welcome to the public markets show Firefly. https://t.co/eBEkBpNgUO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1975246389732073609)  2025-10-06T17:06Z [----] followers, 238.7K engagements


"The problem with retail investors is that the vast majority of them are genuinely fucking retarded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1975246392294842708)  2025-10-06T17:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I cant believe that Deloitte has a fucking satellite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1979394397990216049)  2025-10-18T03:49Z [----] followers, 30.9K engagements


"The Space Shuttle looked cool but it was a complete strategic failure that cost America both the Moon and Mars. Dont believe me This is what former NASA administrator Michael Griffin had this to say about it: Lets assume that we had kept flying with the systems we had at the time the Saturn rockets that we had continued to execute two manned Apollo lunar missions every year as was done in 1971-72. This would have cost about $4.8 billion annually in Fiscal [----] dollars. Further let us assume that we had established a continuing program of space station activities in Earth orbit built on the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1979600588288786710)  2025-10-18T17:28Z [----] followers, 220.1K engagements


"U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been meeting with Republican Senators to discuss plans to potentially fold the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which was established as an independent agency by Congress in [----] into the Department of https://t.co/2XUfiUwDjK U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been meeting with Republican Senators to discuss plans to potentially fold the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which was established as an independent agency by Congress in [----] into the Department of https://t.co/2XUfiUwDjK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1980528660697481718)  2025-10-21T06:56Z [----] followers, 39.1K engagements


"A fun fact is that Skylab had more pressurized living volume than all of Mir combined and over 1/3rd of the pressurized living space of the ISS all in a single gigantic module Astronaut Alan Bean enjoying weightlessness in the open space of the orbital workshop on the Skylab space station in [----]. https://t.co/h3IniLVyXU Astronaut Alan Bean enjoying weightlessness in the open space of the orbital workshop on the Skylab space station in [----]. https://t.co/h3IniLVyXU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1981456895123800184)  2025-10-23T20:25Z [----] followers, 44.9K engagements


"@Yamapama Honestly thats probably one of the truest statements out there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1985128318094774487)  2025-11-02T23:34Z [----] followers, 98K engagements


"@brettdash_ Highly successful PE fund. They buy software companies downsize the staff then jack up the prices (aka enshittification). Likely awesome returns but if I was a user or an employee at a company they acquired Id migrate elsewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1995947137071468757)  2025-12-02T20:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Its quite notable that SpaceX single-handedly kept China from dogwalking the entire U.S space industry Imagine how bleak things would look if we had an eighth of our launch rate no reusable rockets and zero way to put humans in orbit We came so close to being Roscosmos Total launch attempts from [----] - [----] Infographic Standouts for me: China has a relatively dramatic spike. [--] more than last year. Brought on by CZ [---] launching nearly twice as much as they did last year and Still outpaced by USA growth of [--] thanks to Falcon 9's https://t.co/dZjK8xROjV Total launch attempts from [----] - 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2007322114223907077)  2026-01-03T05:24Z [----] followers, 79.8K engagements


"Look at what the Chinese need to mimic a fraction of our power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2013471088567583141)  2026-01-20T04:38Z [----] followers, 300.6K engagements


"Stavatti is a very interesting company in that even the first line on their Wikipedia page roasts them Stavatti is proposing the SM-39 Razor as the Next Carrier Air Dominance (NCAD) Fighter for the US Navy. A 6th generation twin engine low-observable stealth aircraft the SM-39 is powered by two next generation adaptive cycle afterburning turbofans. The SM-39 will have a maximum https://t.co/xbXkvoTbpd Stavatti is proposing the SM-39 Razor as the Next Carrier Air Dominance (NCAD) Fighter for the US Navy. A 6th generation twin engine low-observable stealth aircraft the SM-39 is powered by two"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2015141798788886877)  2026-01-24T19:16Z [----] followers, 54.4K engagements


"greedy SIG Sauer executives try to save money with shitty quality control  second American Civil War [--] million dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2015311552971440437)  2026-01-25T06:31Z [----] followers, 166.4K engagements


"@acheronix @Robotbeat It was in Norway and the first attempt at blowing up the plant resulted in a whole commando platoon being wiped out when their gliders crashed during a storm (SS executed the survivors). SOE then sent in a smaller unit of native Norwegian commandos that blew up the plant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2016332512189141107)  2026-01-28T02:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@cunha_tristan SpaceX makes far more money from Starlink than it does from any goverment contracts. They are more of a commercial than a government biz at this point. Without Starlink SpaceX would not be able to pursue Starship ODCs or Mars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2017968208335286709)  2026-02-01T14:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"U.S News & World Report and its consequences have been a disaster for civilization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2019160982627709289)  2026-02-04T21:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@teortaxesTex some of the latest-gen chips have surprisingly high TID tolerance issue is SEE/thermals moreso than anything else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/2019207574147723323)  2026-02-05T00:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"there's this joke on the chinese web about how intertwined the ccp elites are with the west here goes xi summons his cabinet and announces that it is time to strike america. he proposes they nuke san francisco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1742293470146863387)  2024-01-02T21:15Z [----] followers, 2.7M engagements


"if you actually wanted to get work done you wouldnt be at a bar in the first place coding at the bar is a meaningless LARP SF is the only place in the world where coding at a Bar is socially encouraged. https://t.co/RZJcWAUCQK SF is the only place in the world where coding at a Bar is socially encouraged. https://t.co/RZJcWAUCQK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1913688847608586270)  2025-04-19T20:19Z [----] followers, 280.4K engagements


"Dating in SF is actually very easy Its just that making startups your entire personality and talking like youre on LinkedIn 24/7 happens to be a huge turnoff If you cant date here youll probably struggle to date elsewhere dating in sf is hard its just like doing sales for your ai startup: - stuck in a 6-month pilot - acts of service is the product (no self-serve onboarding) - thought partner + synergies is the wedge - too much follow-up: closed-lost - pitching - waiting for legal to define dating in sf is hard its just like doing sales for your ai startup: - stuck in a 6-month pilot - acts of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1934305023275704439)  2025-06-15T17:40Z [----] followers, 47.3K engagements


"found an alleged pic of a chinese tank factory during the midst of the iran-iraq war tanks on the left are in iraqi colors tanks on the right are in iranian colors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1951422660837253578)  2025-08-01T23:19Z [----] followers, 1.1M engagements


"@_alisawu their guns are meant to defend against kamikaze drones and have the potential of saving thousands of american lives if we ever fight a big war again the ukranians need this badly as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1955838432040931486)  2025-08-14T03:46Z [----] followers, 20.2K engagements


"Just got engaged 💍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1985123662710886839)  2025-11-02T23:15Z [----] followers, 2.3M engagements

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