The Drone Startup That's Outcompeting China | Adam Bry, Skydio
59 min
Adam Bry is the Co-Founder and CEO of Skydio – the largest drone startup in the US.
Interviewing the greats.
59 min
Adam Bry is the Co-Founder and CEO of Skydio – the largest drone startup in the US.
57 min
Saurav is the Founder and CEO of Starpath — a space solar and AI data satellite startup based in LA.
1 hr 15 min
Casey is the Founder of Terraform Industries. He's written a bunch of great essays on Elon's Mass Driver, Starship, the economics of space compute, Starmind, and how Elon operates
59 min
Adam Bry is the Co-Founder and CEO of Skydio – the largest drone startup in the US.
57 min
Saurav is the Founder and CEO of Starpath — a space solar and AI data satellite startup based in LA.
1 hr 15 min
Casey is the Founder of Terraform Industries. He's written a bunch of great essays on Elon's Mass Driver, Starship, the economics of space compute, Starmind, and how Elon operates
1 hr 18 min
Chris is the Founder and CEO of Hadrian, one of the fastest growing manufacturing startups in the United States. Hadrian has opened six factories since it was founded in 2020 with the latest being 2.2 million square feet.
43 min
Bernt Børnich is the founder and CEO of 1X, a California-based humanoid robotics company. After years of developing NEO, its first home robot, 1X is preparing to manufacture and ship 50,000 units in 2027.
41 min
Keller is Co-Founder and CEO of Zipline — the biggest drone delivery startup in the world. A few weeks ago, Uber Eats partnered with Zipline to deliver 1 million packages a day within the next 2.5 years. This was significantly more demand than Zipline was planning for, so now they’re trying to rapidly open new factories and scale drone production.
1 hr 49 min
Ethan Thornton is the founder and CEO of Mach Industries. Mach is an LA based defense tech startup working on solid rocket motors, high-altitude balloons, missiles, long-range precision strike drones, low-cost kinetic interceptors and multiple other programs which are not currently announced.
1 hr 6 min
Olaf is Co-Founder & CTO of Neros. They just moved into a new 250,000 sq ft factory, expect to hit a 130,000-drone annual run rate by the end of the year, and plan to scale to 1 million drones a year by 2028.
1 hr 31 min
Isaiah Taylor is the Founder of Valar Atomics. Valar just became the first startup in history to power an NVIDIA Blackwell with a nuclear reactor. Timestamps: 0:32 Manufacturing nuclear reactors is a SpaceX style problem 2:58 Scaling from 1 reactor to 10 4:31 Why it’s so tempting to iterate on paper instead of actually building reactors 7:37 Having contact with reality - modular shielding 10:09 Steel is cheaper than software engineers 11:09 Why the idiot index is so high in nuclear 16:02 Becoming a nuclear company 18:57 It's important not to lie to yourself 21:55 Obsessing over critical path 24:54 Nuclear reactors are relatively simple 30:35 Safety is a function of iteration speed 30:55 Why Valar had to vertically integrate 35:01 Designing a Toyota Camry vs a Ferrari 38:07 Running through 1-way doors 41:13 Pulling rabbits out of a hat 46:13 Wartime mode 48:49 Being willing to do unreasonable things 51:20 How Elon injects urgency into his companies 56:56 Relentlessly chasing the goal of making energy 10x cheaper 58:32 What’s changed over the last 3yrs 1:00:51 Designing safe nuclear reactors 1:13:05 Learning from SpaceX - optimizing for scale 1:18:07 Having a high tolerance for looking dumb 1:19:50 How Palmer Luckey handles hit pieces 1:20:55 Inevitable time 1:25:26 Predicting unknown bottlenecks 1:28:08 Scaling 1:29:45 July 4th will be a rebirth for nuclear in the United States
52 min
Ryan Petersen is the Founder and CEO of Flexport. Timestamps: 0:03 Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy 2:29 The explosion in tariff fraud 8:58 The Dutch East India Company 11:20 History of global trade 14:39 1,000x spice markup 17:53 The British East India Company 24:02 How the British got 20% of China addicted to opium 27:44 The Forbes family & opium trade 30:40 Jewish trading networks 37:33 It’s illegal to criticize the King of Thailand 38:58 Strait of Hormuz 45:58 Maritime chokepoints
1 hr 3 min
This conversation on how we're going to power the AI data center buildout is between US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Scott Nolan, Founder and CEO of General Matter.
1 hr 1 min
Jim Belosic is the founder and CEO of SendCutSend.
1 hr 5 min
Lulu is a PR & Comms expert who works with many of the best startup founders in the world.
1 hr 29 min
Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Book of Elon.
1 hr 54 min
My first interview with Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase.
1 hr 5 min
My first interview with Peter Beck, Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab.
1 hr 41 min
Neros just acquired a new 250k square foot factory which will allow them to ramp production to 1M drones a year. This is my second interview with Soren Monroe-Anderson, Co-Founder and CEO of Neros.
1 hr 34 min
The history of uranium enrichment, early days of SpaceX, how Peter Thiel thinks.
1 hr 16 min
My first debate on manufacturing between Sam D'Amico, founder of Impulse Labs, and Aaron Slodov, founder of Atomic Industries.
1 hr 25 min
Baiju Bhatt is Co-Founder of Robinhood and Founder of Aetherflux. We talked about the early days of Robinhood, how he thinks about design and failure, and his plan to build orbital data centers.
1 hr 23 min
The history of Alzheimer’s research, structuring Babylon to survive many failures, filtering for missionaries vs mercenaries.
1 hr 36 min
micro1 is one of the fastest growing startups in the AI training data / human intelligence space. We talked about what it's like hiring hundreds of doctors and lawyers in a week, how they're collecting real world data for robotics, and what it was like losing their biggest customer.
1 hr 20 min
My first interview with Ed Mehr, Co-Founder & CEO of Machina. What went wrong with early prototypes, rapid design iteration, why hardware companies require complex capital structures.
2 hr 7 min
Production hell, why simplicity is so important, pain as a moat.
1 hr 11 min
How Elon deals w fires, how xAI built their Colossus data center in 122 days, and why it's important to challenge requirements.
1 hr 51 min
My first interview with Shuo Wang, Co-Founder & CRO of Deel.
1 hr 6 min
My first interview with Keller Cliffton, co-founder & CEO of Zipline.
1 hr 38 min
My first interview with Ian Brooke, founder & CEO of Astro Mechanica.
1 hr 17 min
Laurence Allen is Co-Founder & CEO of Terranova.
43 min
My first interview with Zach Dell & Justin Lopas, the Co-Founders of Base Power Company.
1 hr 47 min
My first interview with Clem Delangue, Co-Founder & CEO of Hugging Face.
1 hr 34 min
My first interview with Ben Wilson, creator of How To Take Over The World.
1 hr 7 min
My first interview with Lada Nuzhna, Founder & CEO of General Control. General Control engineers epigenetic medicines for age-related diseases.
1 hr 42 min
My first interview with Shaun Maguire, Partner at Sequoia Capital.
55 min
Sat down with Joshua Browder, founder & CEO of DoNotPay, for the first ever Relentless shoot at night overlooking San Francisco.
1 hr 5 min
My first interview with Ariana Thacker, cofounder & CEO of Moldco.
1 hr 6 min
My first interview with Max Lobovsky, cofounder & CEO of Formlabs.
54 min
My first interview with David Zagaynov, co-founder & CEO of Poseidon.
36 min
Shinkei is building fish harvesting robots with the goal of reshoring America's seafood supply chain while radically improving the quality & shelf life of the fish we consume. Their Poseidon robot is scaling the traditional Japanese ike-jime method for killing fish which is humane and preserves texture, flavor, and freshness.
1 hr 17 min
First interview with Justin Fiaschetti, cofounder & CEO at Inversion. Inversion is building autonomous re-entry vehicles that enable precision cargo delivery from space in under an hour.
1 hr 25 min
First interview with Saurav Shroff, co-founder & CEO of Starpath.
1 hr 3 min
First interview with Kyle Doerksen, founder & CEO of Future Motion, the creator of Onewheel.
44 min
First interview with Mitch Lee, cofounder & CEO of Arc Boats.
1 hr 58 min
First interview with Bryon Hargis, cofounder & CEO of Castelion.
57 min
First interview with Alexis Rivas, cofounder & CEO of Cover.
1 hr 13 min
First interview with Pari Singh, founder & CEO of Flow.
1 hr 44 min
First interview with Jim Belosic, founder & CEO of SendCutSend.
1 hr 12 min
This is a *mostly* hard tech roundtable that we shot on a ferry in San Francisco with Sam D'Amico, Jason Carman, Will O'Brien, Michael LaFramboise, and Laurence Allen.
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