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Edward

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Edward

@somefoundersalt

Rootless cosmopolitan

Singapore/Shenzhen/SF

Joined August 2022

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Edward
@somefoundersalt
May 5
After 3.5 years of building the hardware and software to enable compute in space, I’m stepping down as CEO from @AetheroSpace into an advisory role. I’m proud of the team and am grateful to my co-founder Amit (who’s one of the best technical minds I know) and for the chance to
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Jan 2, 2024
there's this joke on the chinese web about how intertwined the ccp elites are with the west here goes xi summons his cabinet and announces that it is time to strike america. he proposes they nuke san francisco.
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Aug 1, 2025
found an alleged pic of a chinese tank factory during the midst of the iran-iraq war tanks on the left are in iraqi colors, tanks on the right are in iranian colors
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Sep 30, 2025
“We sent six expeditions to the Moon.” “The Moon in the sky?” “Yes, the Moon in the sky. In fact, there’s rumblings amongst the populace that the Union should annex it as the fifty first state.” “The fifty—what?”
Christian Keil
@pronounced_kyle
Sep 28, 2025
If you had one minute to tell a Founding Father about the last 250 years in America, what would you say?
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Jan 2, 2024
Replying to @somefoundersalt
this goes on for a bit longer, before xi, exasperated, asks the room: "is there any city in the west where no relevant chinese people live?" they all look at each other for a moment and decide to nuke guizhou province.
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Jul 20, 2025
Fun Fact: Star Citizen raised over $100M more in funding than Firefly Space, company that successfully landed on the Moon irl
☉rthonormalist🧭✡️
@orthonormalist
Jul 20, 2025
Star Citizen has now spent 850 million dollars in dev, apparently?
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Jan 2, 2024
Replying to @somefoundersalt
one official raises his hand and protests "we can't do that, my eldest son is a undergrad at berkeley." xi sighs and then says they will instead hit new york. another official raises his hand to state that his sister in law lives there and that his wife would murder them all.
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Nov 2, 2025
Just got engaged 💍
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Oct 28, 2024
fun fact: docusign has more employees (7,000) than an full strength roman legion at the height of the empire (5,200)
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Apr 19, 2025
if you actually wanted to get work done, you wouldn’t be at a bar in the first place coding at the bar is a meaningless LARP
jan
@ironcarbs
Apr 19, 2025
SF is the only place in the world where coding at a Bar is socially encouraged.
00:00
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
May 18, 2025
this entire peninsula should be smothered in skyscrapers as thick as manhattan
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Aug 1, 2025
Replying to @somefoundersalt
I wonder if the factory workers building the Iraqi tanks had a sitcom-style rivalry going on with the workers building the Iranian tanks
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Jan 31, 2025
> email european vendor > out of office until 2030 > email american vendor > ghosted for 3 months. finally quoted $35k and a year of lead time > email chinese vendor > charged $800. the lead time is -6 days and it’s already delivered. they offer their daughters hand in marriage
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Edward
@somefoundersalt
Oct 4, 2025
In awe at how the UK has an aerospace industry with S-tier talent but goes out of its way to cripple said industry time after time again
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