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Relentless

Ti Morse

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  • Monday · 41 min

    1 Million Drone Deliveries a Day by 2028 | Keller Cliffton, Zipline

    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.

  • August 11 · 1 hr 6 min

    Manufacturing 1 million drones a year | Olaf Hichwa, Neros

    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.

  • 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

  • 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 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.

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