Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

Accelerating defense innovation by breaking shit till it works -- Quan2m podcast -- @join_EF W23, Fellow @joinodf & @genzmafia United Kingdom Joined October 2019

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

8 hours ago

As a startup if you’re processing classified data it is shockingly expensive. You’re basically running on a far more expensive cloud and have little alternative. You’re not building your own infra for this with the 5 mil you raised for your seed round.

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

2 days ago

Foreign military sales is such an unintuitive opportunity to pursue if you’re a new defence startup, but if you get it right it’s probably your fastest moving opportunity. Funds sourced through inter government loans, countries willing to test early solutions to fill proven…

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Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey

2 days ago

Congrats to Xi on yet another tank parade in Tiananmen Square. I hear they managed to not crush, burn, or shoot hundreds of students this time.

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

2 days ago

Segmented memory sounds like such an insanely painful thing to work with. (If you know why this came up I like you 10% more)

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

2 days ago

I got so used to SAFEs being an US only thing that now I pause for a second when someone in the UK brings up using a SAFE.

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

3 days ago

Saw an interview yesterday talking about how you can’t be too innovative for the defense sector or you won’t get a contract. This is completely the wrong approach. You need to start shaping and getting the military onboard from day one so that when you’re ready there is a…

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

3 days ago

Notion building out a whole bunch of office tools now feels weird. They aren’t integrated together well enough. Feels clunky.

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

3 days ago

If you’re building something others are using trying to figure out how to set up hotkeys for them so it’s intuitive enough while also not conflicting with a ton of different shit is incredibly annoying. Are there any resources that help you figure this out?

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

4 days ago

Should I actually bother learning Go or keep being a degenerate who uses Python in their backend.

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

4 days ago

There’s always something very satisfying when you start raising your round and start having VCs and Angels cold reach out to you cause they saw a post that hinted you’re raising or heard through somebody that you’re raising. When you had your first startup you were probably the…

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

5 days ago

Technological progress is only inevitable for the average man. If you’re capable it is your duty to innovate and keep him from sliding back to the stone age.

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

5 days ago

There’s something very weird when fundraising early stage from both US, UK, and mainland European investors. US wants vision, scale, potential. UK wants traction, market, and fit. Mainland is the most concrete with customers, early revenue, etc. It feels like you are…

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

6 days ago

Defence runs foreign policy. Finance runs domestic policy. Media runs social policy. Control these three and you can fix any country.

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

6 days ago

Wonder why the auto industry is collapsing with many suppliers needing to shift somewhere? Cause a million companies make a million parts. If the industry takes a 10% hit suddenly a million companies aren’t viable.

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

6 days ago

So many wonder why the fuck were so many companies worth less than Tesla even years ago. Spend a week in the auto industry. They don’t own shit. It’s all contracted out to million pieces. Tesla was very vertically integrated.

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Allison Mahmood @Quan2m2

2 weeks ago

If you haven’t tried grok code (code name: sonic) you should. The speed at which it works makes it actually usable. Makes more mistakes, but if you aren’t an auto accept monkey you can usually see those and fix them. I’ve been very impressed.