September 27, 202451 min
The Economics of Supersonic Flight | Interview with Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl
Sitdown interview with Blake Scholl 3 days after filming Boom Supersonic's 3rd flight test.
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28
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Sep 2024
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Weekly interviews with the innovators of our time I record directly after filming our weekly documentary episode.
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September 16, 20241 hr 10 min
Reimagining The Future of Water Transport & Shipping | Interview with Valo Team
Interview with the @ridevalo team where we go in depth on hydrofoiling, reimagining mass transport logistics, and being a great team member at a deep tech startup.
September 11, 20241 hr 12 min
Chasing Immortality with Humanoid Robots | Eric Jang, S3 Episode 54
While filming with Neo in my apartment I sat down with VP of AI @ericjang11 to learn about 1X's approach to robot intelligence and his his curiosity around immortality. 0:00 Intro 1:27 1X Overview 2:12 Eric's Origin 5:15 Why humanoids? 11:30 Supercomputers & deep learning 12:45 World models 14:21 Neuromorphic computing 14:40 Immortality 20:15 Robotics at Google 21:35 Skepticism of humanoids 27: 00 Joining 1X 31:20 Benefits of LLMs 33:50 Training models 35:30 Tele-op to autonomous 43:30 Data quality vs. quantity 47:00 How to train your robot 50:50 Data sponge 53:30 The 1X team 54:45 Safety 57:45 A lab in the cloud 59:26 Bio advancements 1:03:54 How does your brain work 1:06:14 Conway’s law 1:08:45 Eric’s favorite sci-fi 1:10:50 Life philosophy
September 1, 20241 hr 13 min
Episode 53: We'll Build 100,000 Humanoids by 2027 | Bernt Bornich
After filming our S3 with 1X (https://youtu.be/2ccPTpDq05A) I sat down with Founder &CEO Bernt Bornich to go deeper on 1X's truly ambitious manufacturing plans. If you'd like to support our work, and look like a million bucks, you can buy our first ever S3 Episode Tee here for 7 days only: https://saturdaystartupstories.myshopify.com/products/s3-episode-53-tee-1x-technologies 0:00 Intro 1:16 Why humanoids? 5:40 AI transfer of knowledge 8:40 Power of scale 9:50 Heritage of Eve 11:50 Tendron drives 18:35 Letting robots experiment 22:00 Designing for safety 25:07 Intelligence diversity 27:45 Moravec’s paradox 32:50 Difficulty of reasoning 35:40 Training models & data 40:40 Humanoid ecosystem 42:50 You can’t retrofit cost 46:30 10x every year 56:30 Hire for who you are 57:50 Be nice 1:00:00 Trust your intuition 1:05:50 2040 1:07:50 Bernt’s favorite Sci-Fi 1:09:09 Individualism 1:12:00 Life philosophy
July 25, 20241 hr 7 min
How to Raise $750M & Build a Space Company | John Gedmark
Astranis just announced a new round of funding, led by A16z, to build more satellites! I sat down with John Gedmark, CEO of Astranis, to talk about how they'll use this $200M of capital and the future of building in America and space 🇺🇸🛰️🛰️ 0:00 I used to work here 1:02 Mission of Astranis 3:54 GEO? (Sci-fi) 8:43 Childhood to college 14:30 Silicon Valley for space? 19:14 Founding Commercial Spaceflight Federation 22:07 Why GEO is hard 24:42 Meeting Ryan, CTO 28:18 COVID story 32:40 Early days 35:53 How to raise $750M 47:08 Astranis + US Government 51:15 Manufacturing learnings 53:40 US vs China 58:16 War in space 1:01:18 Astranis longterm vision 1:03:58 Why? 1:05:28 Current life philosophy 1:06:20 1 year of S3
July 18, 202444 min
Ex-SpaceX Astronaut Trainee to Energy-tech Founder | Brad Hartwig
Interview with CEO and cofounder of Arbor Energy, Brad Hartwig for Episode 51 of S³ From training to be an astronaut, leading him to founding Arbor — how we'll soon build faster than regulatory can keep up with and how we can fix it.
July 13, 20241 hr 13 min
The ex SpaceX & Zipline engineers building a mirror satellite constellation | Ben Nowack & Tristan Semmelhack
I sat down for an extended interview with cofounders @4TristanS @bennbuilds to talk in depth about @reflectorbital — If you're building for new space, in high school/college, or trying to figure out what to build, you should watch this!
June 30, 202426 min
He Used to 3D Print Rockets, Now He's Building Robots | Ed Mehr
From working at Google, Microsoft, early at SpaceX and Relativity, Ed Mehr has always been forward-thinking about the future of manufacturing. Now, he's building it at Machina Labs — I sat down with him to learn more after filming Episode 49 of S³.
June 18, 202434 min
Launching SpaceX's 1st Rockets to a Nuclear Startup | Doug Bernauer
From launching SpaceX's 1st rockets, to realizing the need for mobile-nuclear reactors, and founding Radiant — here's my interview with CEO and Cofounder of Radiant, Doug Bernauer for Episode 38 of S³
June 14, 202435 min
S³-47 Cradle Foudners: A Tractable Approach to Reversible Cryopreservation
Interview with Laura Demming & Hunter Davis for Episode 47 of S³ featuring Cradle 0:00 What is Cradle? 2:18 Laura & Hunter’s backgrounds 9:39 Timeline to reversible cry 13:04 Next milestone 15:33 Sci-fi inpsiration 18:35 3 Body Problem 21:10 More builders 24:38 How do you think? 29:39 Getting people into bio 31:25 Where in the future would you go? 32:55 Current life philosophy
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