//Launch · Oct 24, 2026

ryandengg

Posted by @ryandengg on Oct 24, 2026, 15:59 UTC. Below the launch-wave threshold.

quoters in the first hour
0
quoters in four hours
12
repeat quoters in four hours (75%)
9
sentinels in four hours
1

The Launch

  • Companyryandengg
  • Kindfunding or deal
  • Groupdetector-found
  • Author@ryandengg
  • Author’s followers at first read1,906
  • Views at read707,255
  • Quoters retrieved37
  • Quoters in 24 hours27
  • Agency roster accounts in four hours0
  • In the Doomers launch directoryno

The Launch Post

The post as it was read, shown as written.

a two-year-old mining company has raised $400M. @a16z, @khoslaventures and the CIA's venture fund are all on the cap table. @jclozano9897 co-founded @MarianaMinerals with @tbc415 and @baker_tilney, two friends from stanford. it's now worth $1.6B. they buy mines after the market gives up on them, then run them with software and AI. i asked him how you actually buy a mine, why AI's real bottleneck is metal, and whether he'd hire me for being good at claude code. nontechnical, episode 3. 00:00 $400M and the CIA's venture fund 02:19 you can just buy a mine 04:41 2 years, $400M, $1.6B 08:58 cold emailing VCs vs. their first check 13:46 when to buy a mine (right after the market gives up) 19:54 every mining truck is a robot without a brain 25:08 everything human-made is grown or mined 26:15 the cheapest AI company wins 28:31 AI's real bottleneck is metal 30:55 america doesn't have enough miners 33:27 space mining and asteroids 43:13 how a $1.6B founder hires 46:17 would he hire me for claude code? 48:43 "slop cannon"
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Quoters Over the First Four Hours

Cumulative quoters; the dashed line is the comparison launch (comparator nearest in account size).

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Minute Marks: The minute after the launch post at which each quoter count was reached.

  • 5th quoter193
  • 10th quoter202
  • 20th quoter815
  • 50th quoternot reached
  • 100th quoternot reached
  • median minute of quotes in four hours197

Agency Claims

What agencies’ own public pages say about this launch, quoted as read.

No agency claim about this launch was found on the pages read.

Who Quoted Early

Role of the accounts that quoted inside four hours, read from their bios.

  • creator11
  • founder1

Every Quoter in the First Four Hours

In order of the minute they quoted. Bios and names are shown as written.

Filters

Only
12 of 12 quoters
@nico_tech_ai5 · Nico AI114————creator
@ivanidze404 · Kate Ivanova123————founder
@Krishnasagrawal · Krishna Agrawal187yes———creator
@Romi2656 · Romana189————creator
@TechByArti · Arti Shah193yes———creator
@BharukaShraddha · Shraddha Bharuka196yes———creator
@Ai_Vaidehi · Vaidehi198yes———creator
@VermaAakash3 · Aakash Verma200yes———creator
@pushkersoni72 · pushkar soni201yes———creator
@soni_jyoti_ · Jyoti Soni202yes———creator
@dkare1009 · Dhairya Karekar204yes———creator
@codedailyML · Z-Coder214yesyes——creator

What the numbers do not say

These counts show when public quotes of a launch post were posted and by which accounts. They do not show who asked anyone to post, whether money changed hands, or that the quoters acted together.
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