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.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... show more

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teo — e/acc7 months ago

@isaiah_p_taylor @valaratomics @DiscipulusVent Two legends in the making, godspeed ⚡️⚙️

Abe Murray7 months ago

@isaiah_p_taylor @valaratomics @DiscipulusVent Touch hardware 🦾 Solve problems 📈

Charlie Cafazza7 months ago

@isaiah_p_taylor @valaratomics @DiscipulusVent Planetary scale. 🔥🔥

Aleksandr Gampel7 months ago

@isaiah_p_taylor @valaratomics @DiscipulusVent Wise words

BenderDrummer7 months ago

@DiscipulusVent @isaiah_p_taylor @valaratomics 💯 Great advice 👍

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