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  • Tanks + Poland
  • UW
  • Useless
  • Started a farm
  • Learned about the economics of farming.
  • Tractor broke
  • Then said. Wait a minute. Let's solve the infrastructures of equipment, so everyone could benefit. Might as well open source all of the infrastructure on the planet, so GVCS was born.
  • Prototyped. Milestones:
  • Replicabiity
  • Modularity - reuse to make things simple
  • Build time - from months to days. Ironworker.
  • One Day
  • Sold some - 4 tractors in production
  • Revenue model - workshops and enterprise.
  • 3D P
  • CEB
  • House
  • Greenhouse that can feed people fully. If you don't mind eating fish and vegetables every day - and mushrooms and fruits - then you can feed 2 people from only 800 sf.
  • Wow - zero marginal cost!
  • Incredible production - 5000 block in 8 hours
  • 4000 board feet per day - sawmill
  • Housing revenue model - 24 people, 5 days.
  • Next - FreedomHouse - 2 months.
    • What if you have equipment to build this house with - sawmill etc.
  • Steel - 160 kg * 24 - 4 tons - 100kw -
  • Wheat - small seeder and combine can plant and harvest 10 acres/hr. $5k in wheat, and $50k in bread. [1]
  • 1 square mile - 10000 people - $18B. We're starting a country. Larger economy that the bottom 50 countries! Namibia, Botswana, Yemen,
  • Shift from building technology to building enterprise to building people.
  • Worldchanging program - Apprenticeship, Fellowship
  • Let's talk about the inefficiencies? Machnes last 10 years. Bureaucracy, competition, etc.