Relentless

Ti Morse

Interviewing the greats.

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20 episodes
Updated July 25

Episodes20

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July 25 · 1 hr 9 min
Sam Altman - How to Start a Startup
Sam Altman is the Co-Founder & CEO of OpenAI.
July 1 · 1 hr 31 min
Manufacturing 1,000s of Nuclear Reactors | Isaiah Taylor, Valar Atomics
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
May 26 · 52 min
Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy — Ryan Petersen
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
May 23 · 1 hr 3 min
How we're going to power the AI data center buildout | Energy Sec. Chris Wright & Scott Nolan
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.
May 19 · 1 hr 1 min
The Manufacturing Startup That's Outcompeting China | Jim Belosic, SendCutSend | Round II
Jim Belosic is the founder and CEO of SendCutSend.
May 5 · 1 hr 5 min
How to Start a Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
Lulu is a PR & Comms expert who works with many of the best startup founders in the world.
April 16 · 1 hr 29 min
Why Elon Outcompetes Everyone | Eric Jorgenson
Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Book of Elon.
March 23 · 1 hr 54 min
How Brian Armstrong Built Coinbase
My first interview with Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase.
March 16 · 1 hr 5 min
Peter Beck — We're scaling Electron faster than SpaceX scaled Falcon 9
My first interview with Peter Beck, Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab.
March 12 · 1 hr 41 min
Manufacturing 1 million drones a year | Soren Monroe-Anderson, Neros
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.
March 9 · 1 hr 34 min
What if Russia stopped selling uranium to the US tomorrow | Scott Nolan, General Matter
The history of uranium enrichment, early days of SpaceX, how Peter Thiel thinks.
February 27 · 1 hr 16 min
The US vs. China Manufacturing Debate
My first debate on manufacturing between Sam D'Amico, founder of Impulse Labs, and Aaron Slodov, founder of Atomic Industries.
February 22 · 1 hr 25 min
Space Datacenters | Baiju Bhatt, Aetherflux
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.
February 14 · 1 hr 23 min
The Quest to Cure Alzheimer's | Sacha Schermerhorn, Babylon Bio
The history of Alzheimer’s research, structuring Babylon to survive many failures, filtering for missionaries vs mercenaries.
February 10 · 1 hr 36 min
How micro1 grew from $4M to $200M revenue in a year | Ali Ansari
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.
February 5 · 1 hr 20 min
The Future of Metal Manufacturing | Machina Labs
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.
January 29 · 2 hr 7 min
My Conversation with Mehul Nariyawala, Co-Founder of Matic
Production hell, why simplicity is so important, pain as a moat.
January 15 · 1 hr 11 min
WTF is happening at xAI | Sulaiman Ghori
How Elon deals w fires, how xAI built their Colossus data center in 122 days, and why it's important to challenge requirements.
January 8 · 1 hr 51 min
My Conversation with Shuo Wang, co-founder of deel
My first interview with Shuo Wang, Co-Founder & CRO of Deel.
Dec 29, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min
How Zipline Scaled to 2 Million Drone Deliveries | Keller Cliffton
My first interview with Keller Cliffton, co-founder & CEO of Zipline.

Relentless

Sam Altman - How to Start a Startup

Manufacturing 1,000s of Nuclear Reactors | Isaiah Taylor, Valar Atomics

Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy — Ryan Petersen

How we're going to power the AI data center buildout | Energy Sec. Chris Wright & Scott Nolan

The Manufacturing Startup That's Outcompeting China | Jim Belosic, SendCutSend | Round II

How to Start a Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey

Why Elon Outcompetes Everyone | Eric Jorgenson

How Brian Armstrong Built Coinbase

Peter Beck — We're scaling Electron faster than SpaceX scaled Falcon 9

Manufacturing 1 million drones a year | Soren Monroe-Anderson, Neros

What if Russia stopped selling uranium to the US tomorrow | Scott Nolan, General Matter

The US vs. China Manufacturing Debate

Space Datacenters | Baiju Bhatt, Aetherflux

The Quest to Cure Alzheimer's | Sacha Schermerhorn, Babylon Bio

How micro1 grew from $4M to $200M revenue in a year | Ali Ansari

The Future of Metal Manufacturing | Machina Labs

My Conversation with Mehul Nariyawala, Co-Founder of Matic

WTF is happening at xAI | Sulaiman Ghori

My Conversation with Shuo Wang, co-founder of deel

How Zipline Scaled to 2 Million Drone Deliveries | Keller Cliffton