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Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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Working at the nexus of national security & VC. Father to a superhero. Lets live forever and travel the stars ✨ Partner @marque_vc & Adjunct @randcorporation
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Dec 8, 2022
    1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep. "Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forward operating bases with space for 4 sentries" An early sketch:
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    Jim Sharkey (@madscienceskill)
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    Dec 5, 2022
    Now that Andor has given us a glimpse inside the Empire’s bureaucracy and military industrial complex, I want a “Pentagon Wars” style movie about the development of the AT-ST and the corners that were cut which resulted in it becoming easy prey for a bunch of Ewoks! #StarWars
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Oct 26, 2025
    Mamdani’s aunt didn’t take the subway after 9/11… because she didn’t live in NYC… she was working in Tanzania. This sociopath can’t help himself
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    Greg Price
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    Oct 24, 2025
    Zohran through tears: “My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.” Yes, she was the real victim of 9/11
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Mar 8, 2023
    Replying to @elonmusk
    Or you could not publicly shame a former employee?
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Mar 14, 2019
    We really need to do something to shift our culture towards multi-generational housing. We lose so much wisdom by quarantine kids from their elders AND we lose productivity in our best working years by isolating child rearing duties on the parents. It’s terribly inefficient.
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Dec 12, 2024
    Did somebody hack Trump or did he knuckle under to a couple 2 bit mobsters and turn his back on the accelerationist future we were promised? American ports are some of the least efficient in the world and our lack of automation is a direct threat to our global competitiveness.
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    Unofficial Trump on X
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    Dec 12, 2024
    Just finished a meeting with the International Longshoremen's Association and its President, Harold Daggett, and Executive VP, Dennis Daggett. There has been a lot of discussion having to do with "automation" on United States docks. I've studied automation, and know just about
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Mar 5, 2022
    How is this not an @JohnDeere commercial already? 🚜 💪 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
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    olexander scherba🇺🇦
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    Mar 5, 2022
    More Russian scrap metal for Ukrainian farmers! #standwithukraine #ukrainekicksaas #RussiaGoHome
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Mar 25, 2019
    Should have said this long ago.... If you are meeting with me for almost any reason and have kids.... FEEL FREE TO BRING THEM ALONG. Use your judgement but kids should be exposed to the real world and they should never be a reason you and I can't meet. That is all
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Jun 8, 2019
    One year ago today Anthony Bourdain, my hero and the man who most understood the soul of America, took his own life. We live in a dimmer world without him. If you're struggling, seek help. Re-sharing some of my thoughts on mental health in our industry.
    techcrunch.com
    Investors and entrepreneurs need to address the mental health crisis in startups | TechCrunch
    The most brilliant and creative amongst us are sometimes the most troubled, and nowhere is that clearer than in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Jun 23, 2023
    Waiting to hear how this is a disaster for Ukraine from David Sacks.
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Jul 3, 2017
    Replying to @jw and @johnolilly
    I wonder which ones they spit in? So many options for an employee pissed off by the weird request.
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Jan 22, 2020
    I'd love to see a company focused on scaling Oyster farming Oysters 1) Remove CO2 from the ocean 2) Store it in their shells long term 3) Help the ocean capture more atmospheric CO2 4) Reduce ocean acidification 5) Filter toxins / algae (50 gal p/d) 6) Taste great 7) Worth $$$
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Apr 6, 2025
    What is the over under on number of months before Chamath is indicted for securities fraud? I’m going to say 45 months.
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    Sheel Mohnot
    @pitdesi
    Apr 5, 2025
    LOLOL Chamath claims to "control" one of the largest rare earth mineral supplies outside of China. I comment with proof that CCP owns more of the company than he does (proof below). Chamath HIDES my comment.
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    Oct 26, 2019
    When offering stock options to employees why not tell them: 1) The absolute # of options 2) What that represents on a fully diluted basis 3) What they would receive today if the company sold today at 0.5X, 1X, or 2X the latest valuation net of exercise.
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    Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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    May 13, 2019
    Just saw a startup job posting: - Based in SF - 1st employee - Role is biz dev, biz opps and everything founders don't want to do. - $50K - 0.05% equity! Come on ppl. Your 1st (key) employee, paid below market salary & your only going to part with 0.05%!?! WTF Deadpool already