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Hahaha
Thanks for the laughs
Thanks es....just lurking and waiting. Seeing some positive movement here has shut my yapper.
Hope your ankle is mending nicely ;)
Congrats to a pretty helpful dude on this board.....hope this pays off for you big time someday
How is this still trading so high?
Looking for triple zeroes
Production aside....imo positive results from military testing will itself result in a significant SP movement upwards
Ya grub, I recognized most of them other than the one with 2016 mentioned.....I think most of us are thinking ya ya we know what you plan to do so let's get on with it...lol
Have you seen the things you quoted in other filings over the years?
Nailed it imo bro
And just about everybody is a lucky winner on the first drawing...lol
except Jazz....poor Jazz
Surprise...they're already talking about a "second serving"
"Didn't get your tie on Pi Day? Head over to https://ties.boltthreads.com/ and be the first to know about product launches and news! There might be a second serving."
lol...say what?
I was thinking that "50" was actually much more than "50" like they said, or it was some kind of scam
Were you gonna go thru with the purchase?
lol...I appreciate that. I was looking forward to getting it tbh but s**t happens. All the time in the past I spent arguing with you guys about this company and what a boob Kim is, you would've thought Bolt would consider me an ally
I will admit that at one time all that sounded rather silly......well, I'm a believer now.
Aw that's the way it goes...hardly your fault. Not like I'm on here bashing Bolt...was rather looking forward to it though and giving a fair assessment/opinion on the tie
hahaha...you know I would have sold it to him at a bargain price $$$
EXACTLY on all points......and to be as accurate as possible here, "cahoots" was my own expression.
Could very well be, but when I inquired...it sounded like apples and oranges. By that I mean Kblb is working on apples and their priority is oranges... and apples aren't even on their horizon yet.
Strange that whoever called me had a Portland Oregon phone #.....I won't post their info here
haha....what are they afraid of?
YUP....no s**t
Guess who is closely monitoring the KBLB boards....
loool.....so, was having problems paying for my tie with the invoice Bolt sent me...I emailed them to figure out what the problem was and they asked me for my phone number.
They just called me and said it's come to their attention that I'm in cahoots with one of their "competitors", they're looking for somebody to wear and enjoy the tie, and that they're cancelling my invoice.
W T F
Whoever called me sounded totally ball-less (I know you're reading this)
Naw, but I haven't submitted payment yet
I'll let you know tomorrow
Thanks imel
Ya, why not...I've certainly thrown money away on stupider things. Haha
New Invoice
$314.15 due on Mar 15, 2017
Pay Invoice
Invoice from Bolt Threads for 100% Boltspun spider silk necktie
Invoice #000075
March 14, 2017
Customer
xxxxxxx xxxxxxx
Congratulations on being selected as winner #44 of the Bolt Threads limited edition silk necktie lottery! Please submit payment by tomorrow, 3/15/17 to own this piece of fashion history.
Price includes all shipping and sales tax, where applicable. For customers outside the US: Please pay this invoice and contact us at ties@boltthreads.com to so we can make delivery arrangements.
Bolt Threads limited edition knit silk necktie
Ya, got one earlier today as well.
As in the first spidersilk company to produce "sales"?.....lol
"Good luck may the force be with you."
Thanks Imel, but tbh my feelings won't be hurt if I don't "win"
"Are your spidey senses tingling?
There's just one more step:
Click below to confirm your email address. Beginning on March 14th, winners will be notified of their chance to own a limited-edition BoltSpun spider silk tie for $314.15.
If you’re one of the lucky few, you will have 24 hours to enter payment, so don’t delay. Keep an eye on your inbox on March 14th starting at 3:14 pm EST. Until then, follow us on social media."
That is what you see before clicking the final submission button....I wasn't sure I heard the CEO correctly on the Iive broadcast when he was talking about the giveaway but there it is.
Darth Vader is gone....always looking for something new and stupid to put in my signature
Well I entered to win one, and if I win I have to pay $314 for it...lol. What kind of promo is that?
Thanks Truth. Did you enter the tie giveaway?
Didn't watch much (streaming costs a fortune where I live) but I'm almost sure nothing was said that we didn't know already....
He answered my question....but I pretty much figured that out already
Are you watching their live broadcast atm?
I've worn a tie similar to that....(weave pattern)
in the 80s
it wasn't pink
and it didn't cost over 300 bucks
1 star out of what?
If anybody thought they were gonna make $$$ running a few river dredges, well that's just laughable....all this talk about the REEs and black sands and I'm just sitting back lol'ing
I guess people just simply forget similar things were said about a year and a half ago......do your own DD and take what posters say with a grain of salt
"Additional partnerships are expected to be announced later this year."
From a May of 2016 article where the Patagonia partnership was announced
repetition indeed...I'm not aware of any other announced partnership
Haha, no idea....but an entirely vague article about their "progress". Why would anybody be skeptical?
Wearing silk is wonderful. It's smooth, elegant, and comfortable in all temperatures. But producing and caring for the stuff poses problems. Animal rights advocates say that silkworm farming is inhumane. Traditional silk is a fairly fragile material that requires conscientious care, and on top of that it's more expensive than cotton or polyester.
What about nylon--isn't that a decent substitute? Most synthetic fibers are based on petroleum, like plastic, and provoke the same environmental concerns associated with most oil-based products.
In answer to these problems, startup Bolt Threads is challenging itself to transform the apparel industry, and, following that, any other industry that relies on fabric as a primary material. Why wrangle silkworms when you can cook up a batch of synthetic spider silk-- especially if the output lacks the finicky care requirements of traditional worm-sourced silk? For the past three years, Bolt Threads has been creating and perfecting a synthetic fiber inspired by, well, spiderwebs.
The company has crafted specialized proteins and developed a fermentation process able to produce the material at scale. The magic happens at an 11,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Emeryville, California. Bolt Threads says that its fiber performs better than comparable materials already on the market, in addition to being more eco-friendly. Spider silk "is stronger than steel on a per weight basis while being very environmentally friendly," Phys.org explains.
"You look across the entire biosphere, and three-and-a-half billion years of evolution on planet Earth has evolved a lot of cool materials we'd love to bring to consumers," CEO Dan Widmaier says
Bolt Threads has been creating and perfecting a synthetic fiber inspired by spiderwebs.
CREDIT: Courtesy Company
Bolt Threads' approach to material science is possible because a new field is opening up: synthetic biology. Affectionately abbreviated as synbio, it's sometimes considered a sub-field of biotech, and sometimes considered biotech's entire future. Last year, in the inaugural issue of the academic journal Synthetic Biology, editor in chief Jean Peccoud proposed that "there are early indications that cyber-biological systems have the potential to catalyze the fifth industrial revolution in the second half of the 21st century."
Advocacy group SynBioBeta says the number of inquiries it gets about its events has tripled in the past year. Tech investors are looking for the next new technology, and biotech is one of the areas they're most excited about, says biotech venture capitalist Ryan Bethencourt. "We're going to see the [synthetic biology] ecosystem look a lot more like the tech industry than classical biotech," he predicts, explaining that the big winners will get very big.
Widmaier concurs on the nature of the moment he's seizing. There's been a sea change in our understanding of how to read and chemically synthesize DNA, and how biological systems operate. "They've gone from being black boxes to being much more engineerable systems, where you can have the design-build-test cycles going on," Widmaier says. "And that fuel behind the field is what allows us to tackle some of the really hard problems."
Bolt Threads has raised $90 million from investors, including Founders Fund and Foundation Capital, and the company employs 80 people. The company announced a partnership with Patagonia in mid-2016, but no products have been formally released yet.
In terms of business model, Bolt Threads plans to mimic "branded ingredients" like Gore-Tex and Lycra, with the key addition of a direct-to-consumer component. On the branded-ingredient side, Widmaier explains, "the idea is we pick a partner [and] we work with them to try and make an amazing product that allows them to differentiate themselves to consumers and be winners in their category." This is how the partnership with Patagonia is going to work, he says.
But Widmaier also wants to learn from his predecessors' mistakes. Most branded-ingredients companies wish they had started their own consumer-facing brand, he says, because "they wanted that feedback to improve their technology over time, so they didn't commoditize themselves away when their intellectual property protection ran out."
"The economics are superior" when you're selling directly to consumers, Widmaier adds, "although the volumes are somewhat lower." He anticipates that Bolt Threads will follow the Tesla model of starting with a premium product and eventually moving downmarket when economies of scale become available.
It remains to be seen whether Bolt Threads will be able to charm enterprise clients and woo regular shoppers at the same time, or whether the market beyond Patagonia's internal teams will clamor for the company's spiderweb-inspired silk. Bolt Threads is making a bet on consumers' regard for quality and performance in a world of fast fashion, limiting its initial market. But it may be that the company's genuine technological innovation will carry it through, upending all our usual assumptions about fabric along the way.