
Jakob Diepenbrock
@jakobdiepen • 5,865 subscribers
Founder @DiscipulusVent | Apply to the Cohort in bio 🇺🇸 🇻🇦
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America is the greatest country in the world. But we need more founders working on real problems. If you are in the early stages of building something that matters, you have to be in El Segundo.🇺🇸 Apply to the Spring Cohort in bio. Deadline February 20th.
Jakob Diepenbrock305,569 views • 3 months ago

America's the best country in the world. But we need more founders working on real problems. If you're in the early stages of building something that actually matters, you have to be in El Segundo. 🇺🇸 Apply to the Fall Cohort in bio. Deadline August 31st.
Jakob Diepenbrock287,342 views • 9 months ago

🇺🇸 EXCLUSIVE: Palmer Luckey x Discipulus Ventures Spring Demo Day Fireside Chat. We cover Why El Segundo, Founding Anduril, Defense Tech Incentives, State of Hardtech VC, SVB Collapse, Erebor, Founder Advice, & more. Highlights: (00:00) Palmer Luckey (00:20) Why Anduril chose El Segundo over the Bay Area (01:20) The Facebook acquisition & Bay Area mercenary problem (02:43) Building across veterans, Democrats, Republicans & libertarians (03:33) How the four Anduril founders' roles have evolved (04:21) "Want to work on tech? Don't start a company" (06:02) What Palmer learned from Oculus about delegation (06:44) How not to become Lockheed or Raytheon (07:33) Why the government rewards being slow & expensive (09:25) Anduril's real failure mode: becoming Google, not Lockheed (10:21) The state of hardtech venture capital (10:55) Why ZIRP killed serious investing (12:31) The vibe shift toward energy, defense & agriculture (13:01) Erebor & the SVB collapse that almost killed Anduril (13:32) Why no American bank is actually aligned with America (15:18) How Biden accidentally saved Anduril (17:10) Palmer's one piece of advice for founders (17:38) Bonus: the One Piece anime fan edit
Jakob Diepenbrock28,355 views • 1 month ago

.Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors is building planetary scale nuclear reactors at Valar Atomics. He dropped out of high school at 16, founded Valar at 24, raised $450M, and is building America's first nuclear gigasite. 🇺🇸 His advice for Discipulus Ventures hard tech founders: "Get to the hardware problems as soon as you can. You should be experiencing more hardware problems at a greater and greater pace over time."
Jakob Diepenbrock21,141 views • 2 months ago

🇺🇸 Scott Nolan is building America’s nuclear fuel supply General Matter. Ex-SpaceX engineer, Founders Fund partner. He couldn’t find an American uranium enrichment company to invest in, so he built one. $900M DOE contract. His advice for hard tech founders in the Discipulus Ventures Cohort: “Don’t start a company if it’s not your life’s mission.” That ethos runs through the core of what’s being built in El Segundo. Missionaries, not mercenaries.
Jakob Diepenbrock11,484 views • 1 month ago
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