S3

Sep 27 2024 28 ep. 40 mins 11

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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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The Economics of Supersonic Flight | Interview with Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl

Sep 27 2024 51 mins

Sitdown interview with Blake Scholl 3 days after filming Boom Supersonic's 3rd flight test.

Reimagining The Future of Water Transport & Shipping | Interview with Valo Team

Sep 16 2024 70 mins

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.

Chasing Immortality with Humanoid Robots | Eric Jang, S3 Episode 54

Sep 11 2024 72 mins

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 S

Episode 53: We'll Build 100,000 Humanoids by 2027 | Bernt Bornich

Sep 01 2024 73 mins

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-techn

How to Raise $750M & Build a Space Company | John Gedmark

Jul 24 2024 67 mins

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 sp

Ex-SpaceX Astronaut Trainee to Energy-tech Founder | Brad Hartwig

Jul 18 2024 44 mins

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.

The ex SpaceX & Zipline engineers building a mirror satellite constellation | Ben Nowack & Tristan Semmelhack

Jul 12 2024 73 mins

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!

He Used to 3D Print Rockets, Now He's Building Robots | Ed Mehr

Jun 30 2024 26 mins

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.

Launching SpaceX's 1st Rockets to a Nuclear Startup | Doug Bernauer

Jun 18 2024 34 mins

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

S³-47 Cradle Foudners: A Tractable Approach to Reversible Cryopreservation

Jun 14 2024 35 mins

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 phi