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Sam Altman is the Co-Founder & CEO of OpenAI.
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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
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Manglende episoder?
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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
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Lulu is a PR & Comms expert who works with many of the best startup founders in the world.
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Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Book of Elon.
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My first interview with Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase.
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My first interview with Peter Beck, Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab.
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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.
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My first debate on manufacturing between Sam D'Amico, founder of Impulse Labs, and Aaron Slodov, founder of Atomic Industries.
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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.
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The history of Alzheimer’s research, structuring Babylon to survive many failures, filtering for missionaries vs mercenaries.
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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.
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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.
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Production hell, why simplicity is so important, pain as a moat.
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How Elon deals w fires, how xAI built their Colossus data center in 122 days, and why it's important to challenge requirements.
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My first interview with Shuo Wang, Co-Founder & CRO of Deel.
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My first interview with Keller Cliffton, co-founder & CEO of Zipline.
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