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Manufacturing 1,000s of Nuclear Reactors | Isaiah Taylor, Valar Atomics
3w ago01:31:42Tap to summarizeIsaiah 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 problem2:58 Scaling from 1 reactor to 104:31 Why it’s so tempting to iterate on paper instead of actually building reactors7:37 Having contact with reality - modular shielding10:09 Steel is cheaper than software engineers11:09 Why the idiot index is so high in nuclear16:02 Becoming a nuclear company18:57 It's important not to lie to yourself21:55 Obsessing over critical path 24:54 Nuclear reactors are relatively simple30:35 Safety is a function of iteration speed30:55 Why Valar had to vertically integrate35:01 Designing a Toyota Camry vs a Ferrari 38:07 Running through 1-way doors41:13 Pulling rabbits out of a hat46:13 Wartime mode48:49 Being willing to do unreasonable things51:20 How Elon injects urgency into his companies56:56 Relentlessly chasing the goal of making energy 10x cheaper58:32 What’s changed over the last 3yrs1:00:51 Designing safe nuclear reactors1:13:05 Learning from SpaceX - optimizing for scale1:18:07 Having a high tolerance for looking dumb1:19:50 How Palmer Luckey handles hit pieces1:20:55 Inevitable time1:25:26 Predicting unknown bottlenecks1:28:08 Scaling1:29:45 July 4th will be a rebirth for nuclear in the United States
Transcribe →Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy — Ryan Petersen
May 2600:52:51Tap to summarizeRyan Petersen is the Founder and CEO of Flexport.Timestamps:0:03 Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy2:29 The explosion in tariff fraud 8:58 The Dutch East India Company11:20 History of global trade14:39 1,000x spice markup17:53 The British East India Company24:02 How the British got 20% of China addicted to opium27:44 The Forbes family & opium trade30:40 Jewish trading networks37:33 It’s illegal to criticize the King of Thailand38:58 Strait of Hormuz45:58 Maritime chokepoints
Transcribe →How we're going to power the AI data center buildout | Energy Sec. Chris Wright & Scott Nolan
May 2301:03:18Tap to summarizeThis 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.
Transcribe →The Manufacturing Startup That's Outcompeting China | Jim Belosic, SendCutSend | Round II
May 1901:01:51Tap to summarizeJim Belosic is the founder and CEO of SendCutSend.
Transcribe →How to Start a Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
May 501:05:25Tap to summarizeLulu is a PR & Comms expert who works with many of the best startup founders in the world.
Transcribe →Why Elon Outcompetes Everyone | Eric Jorgenson
Apr 1601:29:15Tap to summarizeEric Jorgenson is the author of The Book of Elon.
Transcribe →How Brian Armstrong Built Coinbase
Mar 2301:54:29Tap to summarizeMy first interview with Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase.
Transcribe →Peter Beck — We're scaling Electron faster than SpaceX scaled Falcon 9
Mar 1601:05:18Tap to summarizeMy first interview with Peter Beck, Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab.
Transcribe →Manufacturing 1 million drones a year | Soren Monroe-Anderson, Neros
Mar 1201:41:31Tap to summarizeNeros 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.
Transcribe →What if Russia stopped selling uranium to the US tomorrow | Scott Nolan, General Matter
Mar 901:34:02Tap to summarizeThe history of uranium enrichment, early days of SpaceX, how Peter Thiel thinks.
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