The Reindustrialization Of America | Jakob Diepenbrock

<p>Jakob Diepenbrock is running a hard-tech fund from El Segundo, backing young engineers building defense, manufacturing, robotics, energy, and other critical industries. He joins Lukas and Saila to explain how he skipped the credential ladder, built Discipulus Ventures, raised a fund by treating the process like a startup launch, and why Anduril’s breakout made defense tech the allocation everyone suddenly wanted.</p><p><br></p><p>They also discuss cost-plus military contracts, drones versus soldiers, DJI’s domination of creator hardware, automated American textile factories, why humanoid robots are TikTok bait, insectoid factory machines, American-made peptides, ethanol and farm lobbies, machine financing at 30%, the tacit knowledge trapped in aging machinists, lowballing retiring boomers for obscure industrial monopolies, founder bench-press requirements, a Vegas magician who broke reality, CIA remote viewing, UFOs as Space Force marketing, medical isotope enrichment, Russian shell companies, and Germany’s reverse house-flipping bureaucracy.</p><p><br></p><p>Sponsored by:</p><p><br></p><p>Polymarket: https://polymarket.com</p><p><br></p><p>Zcash: https://z.cash</p><p><br></p><p>CitizenX: https://citizenx.com</p><p><br></p><p>Passage Press: https://passage.press</p><p><br></p><p>_________________________________</p><p><br></p><p>Watch, listen, and join the discussion:</p><p><br></p><p>Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.org</p><p><br></p><p>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PlausiblyDeniableExperience</p><p><br></p><p>Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3cU3OBRKnYGY7fyGF6x2Th</p><p><br></p><p>Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plausibly-deniable/id1866452505</p><p><br></p><p>Substack: https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com</p><p><br></p><p>X: https://x.com/PD_EXP</p><p><br></p><p>Jakob Diepenbrock: https://x.com/jakobdiepen</p><p><br></p><p>Discipulus Ventures: https://www.discipulusventures.com</p><p><br></p><p>Discipulus Cohort: https://www.discipulusventures.com/cohort</p><p><br></p><p>Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ</p><p><br></p><p>Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore</p><p><br></p><p>Contact: plausiblydeniableshow@gmail.com</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps:</p><p><br></p><p>00:00 Intro and Sponsors</p><p>01:25 The Substack Payment Processor Is Finally Fixed</p><p>05:00 Turning the Podcast Into a Call to Action</p><p>07:08 Meet Jakob / Long-Distance Running Is Adult Self-Harm</p><p>09:19 El Segundo, Chamath, and the Defe