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Raymond Russell
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working on my world model
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Hang it in the Smithsonian Museum of Irrational Exuberance 🫧
Instinct is currently raising @ $30b.View quoted post on X
$100M → $500M → $2.5B → $10B → ~$30B in sub 1y.
If you're still not inside the private market this should be a good signal to pivot aggressively.
Wealth creation is going to be heavily skewed toward private investors over the coming decade.
Some personal news
Raymond Limited is now Raymond Aerospace, Defence & Engineering Limited!
What’s even more exciting is that its manufacturing base is in Andhra Pradesh! 🚀View quoted post on X
Just! Get! On! The! Plane!
I learned last week that VCs don't seem to fly out to see the hardware companies they're investing in. This struck me as totally insane. While I was in India, my walk through @Airbound_Aero revealed much of what I wanted to know.View quoted post on X
Have been through so many factories that I can usually tell in about five minutes what's real and what's hoping to be real and what's total garbage. Airbound had lots of the touches of an early @RocketLab - organization, attention to detail, etc.
I get that investors are looking at the founder and the business and their models. But feels like you could save a lot of heartache by bothering to get on a plane.
