Relentless

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sam Altman is the Co-Founder & CEO of OpenAI.

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...

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

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.

Jim Belosic is the founder and CEO of SendCutSend.

Lulu is a PR & Comms expert who works with many of the best startup founders in the world.

Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Book of Elon.

My first interview with Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase.

My first interview with Peter Beck, Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab.

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.

The history of uranium enrichment, early days of SpaceX, how Peter Thiel thinks.

My first debate on manufacturing between Sam D'Amico, founder of Impulse Labs, and Aaron Slodov, founder of Atomic Industries.

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.

The history of Alzheimer’s research, structuring Babylon to survive many failures, filtering for missionaries vs mercenaries.

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.

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.

Production hell, why simplicity is so important, pain as a moat.

How Elon deals w fires, how xAI built their Colossus data center in 122 days, and why it's important to challenge requirements.

My first interview with Shuo Wang, Co-Founder & CRO of Deel.

My first interview with Keller Cliffton, co-founder & CEO of Zipline.

My first interview with Ian Brooke, founder & CEO of Astro Mechanica.

Laurence Allen is Co-Founder & CEO of Terranova.

My first interview with Zach Dell & Justin Lopas, the Co-Founders of Base Power Company.

My first interview with Clem Delangue, Co-Founder & CEO of Hugging Face.

My first interview with Ben Wilson, creator of How To Take Over The World.

My first interview with Lada Nuzhna, Founder & CEO of General Control. General Control engineers epigenetic medicines for age-related diseases.

My first interview with Shaun Maguire, Partner at Sequoia Capital.

Sat down with Joshua Browder, founder & CEO of DoNotPay, for the first ever Relentless shoot at night overlooking San Francisco.

My first interview with Ariana Thacker, cofounder & CEO of Moldco.

My first interview with Max Lobovsky, cofounder & CEO of Formlabs.

My first interview with David Zagaynov, co-founder & CEO of Poseidon.

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.

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.

First interview with Saurav Shroff, co-founder & CEO of Starpath.

First interview with Kyle Doerksen, founder & CEO of Future Motion, the creator of Onewheel.