A Statement from Year Zero
Most of what you've been told about the 'future' is a narrative designed to hide technical stagnation. I’m not here to sell you a story; I am here because I am the only person capable of auditing the actual substrates of the next industrial era, and the Year Zero team with me is committed to ensuring the delayed future is no longer delayed.
Every year, trillions in capital are delayed or lost because the people allocating it can’t tell the difference between a 'rhetorician' and a 'builder,' and consequently continue to make poor decisions that cost the global economy and the arc of progress.
Similarly, the science and technology capable of enabling true progress remains locked behind a veil of obfuscation, and the people who understand it are often ignored or dismissed as 'too technical' or 'not visionary enough' while many investors are too wary or impatient to see this come to pass; this costs them the greatest possible opportunity—underwriting and owning pieces of the future itself that new markets and industries, further opportunities for wealth generation, will be built downstream from.
I have lived on both sides. I have the technical know-how and the operational scars to know exactly where the physical world is breaking.
The delayed future is a consequence of these systemic issues, and it is my purpose and Year Zero's mission to illuminate the path forward. This is what Year Zero stands for: the zero calendar year of a new era of progress and growth, a new era of untold prosperity.
To not translate between R&D and reality is to be a victim of entropy and stasis. To be willing and able to identify and back the right opportunities is to be a catalyst and driver for the future.
Change the bottom layer, and the entire future reconfigures itself.
— Garrett Temple, Founder & GP