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Faster, Please! The PodcastDiscovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture. Author: James Pethokoukis
Welcome to Faster, Please! The Podcast. Several times a month, host Jim Pethokoukis will feature a lively conversation with a fascinating and provocative guest about how to make the world a better place by accelerating scientific discovery, technological innovation, and economic growth. fasterplease.substack.com Language: en Genres: Business, Technology Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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🏗️ A hub for hard-tech startups: My chat with 'American Shenzhen' builder Joshua Farahzad
Friday, 10 April, 2026
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:As a college sophomore, Josh Farahzad assembled a group of students from around the country in an attempt to launch a homemade rocket into space. From there, he ditched the traditional route and scoured the country for the perfect place to build a uniquely American mega-project.Disillusioned with the entrepreneurial atmosphere of the Bay Area, he has since broken ground in central Texas. Caldwell County is now home to Proto-Town—a place Farahzad hopes businesses will have the space to engineer and build world-changing hardware.Today on Faster, Please—The Podcast, I chat with Farahzad about his quest to build America’s premier manufacturing town from scratch.In This Episode* Welcome to Proto-Town (1:20)* The Limits of California (5:18)* From the Ground Up (10:46)* The Vision (17:35)(A lightly edited transcript of our conversation will be appear in my Week in Review issue on Saturday. Another option is using the Substack auto transcript function.)On sale everywhere The Conservative Futurist: How To Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe
