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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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at xAI, discusses the company's hyper-fast, demanding culture, exemplified by building their Colossus data center in 122 days and leveraging Tesla's network for human emulators. He shares insights into Elon Musk's leadership, the flat organizational structure, and how xAI challenges conventional timelines and software limitations to rapidly develop advanced AI.
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.
