Morgan Barrett

Excited to get to work for the City of El Segundo

Starting immediately: I'm serving as an ambassador (or a missionary?) for the City. Also sort of an advisor... the role is amorphous.

The gist is that I get to fly around the country and hang with the brightest hard tech founders and tell the story of El Segundo and the founders that are building world changing companies in this small (but extremely important) town

If you're a hard tech VC - we should chat. Lots of fun things to collab on in the near future

On a long enough timeline, missionaries will beat the mercenaries

AnySignal

30 Days of Hard Tech: Day 19 📡

I talk to Ricky Medina and John Malsbury about how AnySignal has become the go-to RF platform for all of your favorite hard tech/space tech startups:

“We're building the operating system for the electromagnetic spectrum. This is involved in everything from navigation like GPS to communications, radar, and sensing the environment. If you look at any sort of mission-critical function, like a soldier on the battlefield, an aircraft flying, a spacecraft in orbit, they're all very, very dependent on RF technology.”

“Manufacturing is really important. Being able to build something very quickly and prototype it and iterate, but then once you have something, being able to build at scale. In the space market, hundreds of terminals per year is a pretty good output that puts you at the top of throughput in the world outside of SpaceX. But we're talking about things terrestrially, which will be ramping to the thousands of terminals here soon.”

VC: this deal would go much more smoothly if you used our preferred lawyer

First time founder: yeah of course, let’s not rock the boat here. Grateful to have you aboard

VC: this deal would go much more smoothly if you -

2nd time founder: *unholstering gun*

My buddy from college got a perfect SAT and ACT score and now he just rock climbs and makes luxury kitchen cabinets

Ultimate shape rotator but just couldn’t be bothered with big tech or corporate America