Molding Moonshots
Aaron PickardWeekly insights on deep tech investing, startups, and sometimes spaceflight
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Fermi Explorer
I turned earlier 30 this week. Because of that, I’ve spent a good deal of time during the past couple weeks doing two things. First is spending time with and expressing gratitude to the people who are important to me, for the role they’ve h...
A redemption rights thought experiment
Last Friday, while I was at a beautiful wedding in Chicagoland, the Startup/VC Twitterverse descended into chaos.
Earlier this year, Sequoia pre-empted Valar Atomics’s Series B. In connection with that financing event, the startup wanted...
The Matter of Momentum
I spent about a week last month in and around Long Beach for SoCal Deep Tech Week. I could feel the energy in the air walking around the events. In addition to meeting lots of awesome founders, I’ve been thinking a lot about what exactly ma...
Investing in Deep Tech Q3 2026
It’s officially fall and officially the fourth quarter of the calendar year, so it’s time for another update on my publicly traded deep tech portfolio.
Photo by Logan Teffertiller on Unsplash
I share these updates for two reasons.
First...
Media Review: The Irrational Decision
This is the third in a series of three media reviews about rationalist ideas.
On my flight back from Socal Deep Tech Week last Friday, I listened to a Chicago Booth Review Podcast episode about the nature of irrationality that was a conver...
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I'm an early-stage deep tech investor with a passion for engineering, writing weekly on Substack to show you how I think. Full-time at MFV Partners. Alum of UChicago and Columbia. 1 for 2 on moon missions.
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