NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
Thank you for visiting us.
A shadow line is an ineffable thing. A place between worlds. One does not know where the darkness ends nor the light begins. It is a territory of both recollection and promise.
We believe we are on the cusp of a renaissance in the way we understand the world. A time when the mechanized and the linear give way to the individuated and rare. And within this, a time when the importance of those rare, non-verbal sentiments within us, which have remained long dormant, come once more into the world with beauty, romance, zeal, civility and adventure.
There was a similar age, not long ago, when the tectonics of the world were also shifting. Now, as then, we are crossing into an age of great artistry and industry. The most beautiful and rare among us answered the call with even greater genius.
Now is the time to immerse ourselves in the sublime and the poetic. Now is the time to cultivate the upright and the elegant together. Now is the time to conjoin the Beloved and the Almighty within what we bring forward in this earthly paradise.
We recognize, this is not for everyone. Not all of us will possess the articulation and muscularity of this inward landscape. Great things are exclusive by nature.
Our aim is to help instill a greater intimacy with these primordial minerals; to build for our guests such that their contact with an ecstatic belonging will never again be severed, and they will forever carry it into the world.
Ross Calvin
Ross has 15 years of versatile global macro investing and technology entrepreneurship with a background in trading, emerging technology, emerging markets investing and complex thematic situations. He has relentlessly sought opportunities emerging around monetary dislocation. He believes reengineering the monetary order is the most powerful and moral way to restore humanity’s creative genius. And within such a fragmenting world, that we must also re-commune with the sublime in order to rebuff the degeneration in sense-making arising all around us.
In 2021 he founded Parhelion Digital, a bitcoin miner with facilities in Latin America.
Prior to Parhelion, Ross was the manager of Agrigentum Capital, a global macro strategy which was the first comprehensive application of the Austrian School of Economics. Agrigentum focused on major commodity, currency and interest rate transitions, emerging market and technology equity, structural volatility and on China’s malinvestment and emerging influence on global capital markets.
With the arrival of smart contract platforms, in 2017 Ross developed PetroChain, a decentralized oil & gas capital market and value chain governance platform as the foundation for a strategic approach to re-engineering the petrodollar.
Ross is the executive director of the American Colossus Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to constructing powerful public symbols of nobility, entrepreneurship, technology and human triumph.
You can visit RossCalvin.com and read his missive series on Substsack: Fire, Profit & Transcendence, covering topics such as mythology, poetry, entrepreneurship, global macro, and decentralized money. He is also the author of two, books: Agrigentum & the Austrian Method, Golden Age Principles in Global Investment (2015), and The Saga of Freiheit, der Geist der Weltanschauungskrieg (Q4 2025).
Ross began his career at a hedge fund in Denver, and went to college in Texas studying economics and Mandarin. He is an avid pianist and enjoys running in the high Rockies. He has resided in Beijing and North Africa and lives in Wyoming.