The Leash
How the physics of seawater turned submarine communications into an unsolved problem.
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Jeff Crusey
Jeff Crusey is the General Partner of IceNine and Co-founder of Per Aspera. A first-check investor in defense, energy, and frontier technology, he partners with technical entrepreneurs making real, step-change progress — with portfolio companies including HawkEye 360, now trading on the NYSE.
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Collaborative Works
Megafunds & the New VC Order
Industrial tech has birthed a new breed of firm — the megafund. What does this new world order mean?
Space Power
Earth installs more solar in 90 minutes than exists across every spacecraft currently in orbit.
Who Controls the Air
How an $81 billion spectrum auction exposed the structural failure between the FCC and FAA.
Critical Minerals
Chinese export controls stopped a Ford production line, and it won't be the last time they do.
The Landfill Mine
The minerals America needs most are already here, discarded in electronics landfills every day.
Buy vs Build vs Bury
The case for treating discarded American electronics as a domestic rare earth supply chain.
Pray Not for Easy Lives
The manifesto behind Per Aspera: civilization advances through hard pursuits, not easy ones.
