Philip Johnston
@PhilipJohnston
Co-Founder & CEO of @Starcloud_ | Co-Founder & CEO of @FermiExplorer
965 Following 30K Followers
What an endorsement for @Benchmark from @Cerebras CEO @AndrewdFeldman:
“Benchmark was and extrodinary partner”
Were early on our journey but this has also been my experience with Benchmark and @ChetanP 👌
@jaltma, @EricVishria
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A trillion trillion galaxies, each one with with a trillion stars and yet no evidence of Dyson spheres 🤔 @FermiExplorer
Every time someone asks me why I’m doing the @FermiExplorer mission, I send them this article from @SciGuySpace at @arstechnica which beautifully articulates the point of the mission.
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Okay the original content rewards criteria is dumb 🙄🙄 You have to select 10 of you last 20 posts and replies but today happens to be a day when I’m responding to my friends raising so my last 20 posts and replies are congratulating people. So obviously it’s not interesting to an outside observer… so dumb… why not just let us pick from all posts in the last week??
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Thanks @GadiNBC and @NBCNews for having me on to talk about The @FermiExplorer Mission to another star! 🚀🚀
Inspiring to see the @stoke_space facility and hang out with @AndyLapsa! 🚀
@ezrafeilden, @Starcloud_ 🙌
Starcloud CEO @PhilipJohnston says it could do fine without Starship given its govt. contracts. But it needs Starship to profitably handle terrestrial AI workloads.
"The big bet of the industry is that Starship will be operating and will be able to take a decent portion of the industry's payloads. But remains to be seen."
"We can survive without Starship just on the military and government contracts we have. That works fine with the current launch cost."
"But in order to be cost competitive with terrestrial data centers, we would need more like a Starship."
With @itsmoislam at the @NYSE
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Epic
Thanks so much @NYSE! 🚀
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman yesterday:
"Let’s take our data centers, put them in Earth orbit, take advantage of that free fusion reactor that’s out there for us, and use that to ensure we do win the … space race for sure, but the AI race, too."
On it, Sir! 🫡
@rookisaacman, @Starcloud_
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Seconding this ☝️
@alexisohanian
Alexis is an early believer in a bunch of companies trying to change the world.
He is one of the best hardware investors on the planet, and was doing it long before it was the it thing to invest in.
Dear @Starcloud_ team, it’s August! Wishing you all the best with the move to the new facility! 🚀📦 If you need an extra pair of hands shifting boxes, I’m happy to hop over and help. I have steady paws 😊💫🦘
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Newsweek just put out one of the most comprehensives pieces on @Starcloud_ I’ve seen yet. Check it out! 🚀
And thanks @Newsweek!
My cofounder might or might not have a bunch of uranium in his garage 👀
They don't want you to know this, but you can enrich Uranium in your garage.
Fun to hang out with the @Standard_Cap team and companies and excited to call @Starcloud_ a portco! Thanks for hosting @daltonc, @paultoo, and @berg! 🙏
Thanks for having me on to talk about @Starcloud_! 🙏🙏
Starcloud CEO @PhilipJohnston joins us at the @NYSE to chat their $250M round and orbital data centers.
"I think we really are talking about by far the largest market opportunity ever."
"We had Dylan Patel a few weeks ago saying that by 2040, half of all new compute capacity would be orbital. So we're talking about on the order of $1T a year in new capex spend by 2040."
"I think it's unlikely that that will be a monopoly. That sounds surprising to me. I mean, if nothing else, that is a big enough incentive for people to get their act together on building launch vehicles."
Full interview, we covered:
- NVIDIA and Cisco participation
- What Starcloud builds in-house vs. outsource
- The launch constraint issue
- Competing with SpaceX
- Starship
- Impact of open source models
- Impact of lower cost per token
- Storytelling philosophy
- Data centers at sea
With @itsmoislam
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I'm super excited to share that we have raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation to build a LOT more AI compute capacity in orbit 🚀
Thanks so much to our supporters, including Manhattan West, who led the round, and new investors, @NVIDIA, @Cisco_Invests, @CedarCapital, Goanna Capital, and @Standard_Cap, as well as continued investment from existing backers @Benchmark, @EQTVentures, @Soma_Capital, @NFX, @SevenSevenSix, and others.
Next week, @Starcloud_ will move into a new 100,000 square ft facility that will enable us to ramp up our production rate to 100 satellites/week.
This is just the beginning! @EzraFeilden, @AdiOltean🏃🏻➡️🏃🏻➡️🏃🏻➡️
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Startups that seem to me to be very innovative lately are:
@Starcloud_ - @PhilipJohnston's startup
@neuralink - @elonmusk's startup
@ray_ban - @finkd startup
And of course the startups that I own😃
