Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸

@vc

Working at the nexus of national security & VC. Father to a superhero. Lets live forever and travel the stars ✨ Partner @marque_vc & Adjunct @randcorporation

San Francisco, CA

marque.vc

Joined June 2015

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Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
@vc
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:
Jim Sharkey (@madscienceskill)
@madscienceskill
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
Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
@vc
15h
Artillery is so hard to make at the necessary scales. That’s why when we found a company who could do it, we backed up the truck. The king of the battlefield is far from dead.
Alec MacGillis
@AlecMacGillis
Aug 12
"The facility never produced a single usable shell... The fiasco has cost taxpayers $533 million...but the Army has not held General Dynamics or a key Turkish subcontractor publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made GD pay a penny back." Nuts: propublica.org/article/genera…
Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
@vc
18h
I used to have a widget that would email me with changes to my connections twitter bios. It was always fun to watch VCs switch out the investments they wanted to "own".
Palmer Luckey
@PalmerLuckey
Aug 12
Hello fellow founders, go to your investor's website and see if they still list you as a portfolio company. What you do with the information is up to you.
Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
@vc
18h
*Cough* YC *cough cough*
Eric Newcomer
@EricNewcomer
23h
When Starcloud, a space data center startup, announced in March that it had raised $170 million at a $1.1 billion valuation led by Benchmark and EQT, you had to read deeply into the press release to learn that the deal was done in two tranches, with the first part led solely by
Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
@vc
21h
This conversation on how we invest in defense with David was so much fun and far ranging. I especially like this little gem: David: "If you could go back to 2019 and give yourself one timeless piece of advice what would that advice be?" Jake: "I would have stocked up on whisky
David Weisburd 🚀
@DWeisburd
Aug 12
There are maybe a dozen venture firms in the US with security clearances. Without one, Jake Chapman says, you're not underwriting defense tech. You're reading what's left over. The requirements are classified. The results of field exercises are classified. The long-range budgets