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Out on a frozen lake in Canada, an upside-down cell tower is collecting data on the local fish population. The device is called Echo, and it’s just the beginning of what Dominion Dynamics hopes to build for the country’s growing defense industry.
(Video episode here on YouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=e9eORCxS…)
Our northern brothers have been agitated to the point of action, thanks to President Trump declaring that they’re nasty people we should perhaps conquer. Threatening Canada is not unlike kicking a puppy, but it turned out to be the final straw. The country counted its beans and concluded the situation was loony — 70 cents of every dollar Canada spends on military hardware goes to American companies. Realizations like these pushed Dominion founder Eliot Pence to move back home after 20 years in the States and get to work on renewing Canada’s awesomeness.
“I want to compete with Lockheed, with Anduril, with Northrop,” Pence told me. “I want to put Canada and Canadian defense back on the global map. That’s the ambition, and we can do it.”
Before Dominion, Pence spent four years at Anduril as one of its earliest business hires. The lessons he gleaned from that experience are what he hopes to return to Canada, which has a maddening history of building world-class defense technology and immediately tossing it in the trash. “We’re trying to change history here and build back what Canada was,” Pence said.
Since its founding in June 2025, Dominion has raised $169M CAD, reportedly at a $570M CAD valuation. They’ve been hard at work on all sorts of cool gadgets like Echo, which is meant to find adversary submarines under the ice, plus a communications network called AuraNe, and an unmanned drone that flies alongside fighter jets called Scout.
In the latest episode of our Canada series, we spent some time with Pence to figure out why Canada would even need a robust defense industry. We got a tour of Dominion’s new factory, which will likely never make a camera appearance again because, ya know, top secret defense stuff. We took a skidoo across the lake to see the tech in action and bribe a local fisherman with beer. I almost kiss a pike and jig like my life depends on it. If you aren’t Canada-pilled by the end of this video, perhaps there is no hope left for you.
I am very, very, very bullish on commercial space in India. It will take a decade, but it's the only country with a real chance of competing alongside the U.S. and China. corememory.com/p/a-new-india…
Somehow, @srajagopalan and @lachygroom have managed to fund a hard-tech revolution in India.
There's something rather massive going on, and everyone else has missed it.
Our story - corememory.com/p/a-new-india…
this would be an incredible job for someone clever
Andreas Tolias & I are hiring a Chief of Staff to work closely with us at @metamorphiclabs.
Seeking a high-agency generalist with strong judgment and exceptional execution who thrives in a dynamic environment and has a track record of owning complex projects from ambiguity to results.
You’ll work directly with us across strategic projects, fundraising, partnerships, and business operations, with substantial autonomy and room to grow.
If this sounds like you or someone you know, we’d love to connect.
About Metamorphic: metamorphic.com
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From our hang with @hermeuscorp watching them go supersonic.
Full podcast on how the company is trying to build the next great fighter jets right here - youtube.com/watch?v=qoN5zjUr…
Am in awe of @blakejharrisNYC and the work he does. New biography on Larry David is, like all of his writing, exceptional. What a fascinating subject.
amazon.com/Emperor-Nothing-D…
We went to Spaceport America to watch @hermeuscorp go supersonic and did a podcast along the way. @Zsshore and @AJ_Piplica walked us through their plan to create a new era of super fast, autonomous fighter jets for the U.S.
Full episode here or wherever you pod - corememory.com/p/the-future-…
Ashlee Vance retweeted
We’ve raised a $45m Series A, co-led by
@foundersfund and The @OpenAI Startup Fund, to build cancer therapy that learns. Technology is rapidly changing medicine, but data loops and rapid adjustments are still largely missing. When you start cancer treatment, knowing whether what you’re doing is working is too slow. Clearly there is a better way. Build systems to watch cancer in real time, then feed that data into a system that itself can treat the disease. This seeds a future where, unlike drugs, we develop medicine that continuously learns to improve itself. We've been building neurotechnology and BCI platforms to do just that.
@coherenceneuro
It'll be interesting to go back to this video in five years. I suspect it will mark the moment when Texas's tech industry really grew up and started to overtake California for the most important stuff.
As a Texan bred Californian, I am torn by all of this. California should get queso and breakfast tacos and stop making it illegal to make things. Texas should work on geoengineering its oppressive heat away.
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Okay it’s happening:
- Added 160k square feet in Reno for our automated high volume lines and parts up to 5’x10’. Operational now.
- Added 170k square feet in Pittston PA for 1-day shipping (or faster) to the Northeast US. Landing machines and growing the team now.
- Southeast US is next (flying out next week to negotiate a lease). 3 more leases in 3 more states to sign after that. Expect massive lead time reductions across our factory network.
- Finalizing our first acquisition and working on the second and third. These are services you’ve been asking for. More coming. We’ll be able to say yes to more of your BOM.
- Welding is ramping nicely. More assembly support soon.
- More materials and capabilities for CNC machining in development now, including much smarter pricing. Increased capacity will also help us cut lead time drastically.
- Added 450 people so far this year. Hopefully double that in 2027.
- Candy and merch budgets have been tripled.
…And we’re just getting started. That’s a big part of why we raised again: to build more, ship faster, and make manufacturing easier and more accessible. I’m doing my best for ya. I love you guys.
Big thanks to @willreed at @sparkcapital , @caitlinbolnick1 at @CRV, @marksugarman at MHS, @andrew__reed at @sequoia and @matthuang at @paradigm for supporting our Series B (and the extra rocket fuel)
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The one school to rule them all is The University of Waterloo. @kyliebytes went north to find out Waterloo produces so many cracked engineers corememory.com/p/university-…
Ashlee Vance retweeted
ashlee sent me to canada to see “some cool shit.” the kids at the university of waterloo delivered! watch my latest video on CANADAAAA 🇨🇦
We sent @kyliebytes to Waterloo to find out why its students are the most cracked corememory.com/p/university-…
Our interview with the man who should be getting the first flying Roadster and how managed to be first in line youtu.be/F-I8W3Dbvbk?si=XcQY…
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Larry David is one of America’s unlikeliest icons, and one of history’s purest founders.
In our latest profile, Correspondent-at-Large @blakejharrisNYC—who spent six years talking to Larry for his new book—explains what makes Larry so special, and why it took him so long to break through.
Larry was a mediocre student with a middling social life. His first two jobs—selling bras and driving cabs—ended quickly. At 25, he called his mother from a hotel room: “Ma, nothing good is ever gonna happen to me.” She urged him to become a mailman.
Soon after, he found what he thought would be his calling: stand-up comedy. His material was funny, but he rarely finished a set. If somebody in the audience looked at their watch, or didn’t laugh when he thought they should, Larry stormed off.
14 years later, aged 39, he got a break. He was asked to write his first sitcom script for a big new Showtime series. Only an eighth of what he wrote survived the edit, but the episode was still his. He was broke, and the writing credit could have sparked his career. But Larry refused to put his name on it.
Even with Seinfeld, Larry nearly hit self-destruct. The pilot performed worse than almost any other show NBC had ever tested. Still, the network ordered four episodes, one of the smallest orders in TV history. Larry barely made it through them.
When the studio installed a showrunner to oversee the scripts, Larry endured the man’s notes, then said “NO. I’m not doing one thing,” and walked out. In the summer of 1991, with the show finally starting to work, NBC wanted Jerry and Elaine to get married and have a baby. Larry quit in the parking lot and wished everyone good luck. Jerry stood with Larry, and NBC caved.
Larry’s friend and comedian Bill Scheft put it this way: “He doesn’t [act this way now] because he has fuck-you money. It’s the opposite. He has the fuck-you money because he’s always acted this way.”
Read the full profile by Blake, author of Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David.
colossus.com/article/many-fa…
Shall we kill fish with robots now?
An investigation - youtube.com/watch?v=5gVIWKDN…
He bought a ghost town and then went on the adventure of a lifetime. Our interview with Brent Underwood from Cerro Gordo. Insane stuff.
youtube.com/watch?v=zBmwrZuX…
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