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Dino Mavrookas

Co-Founder and CEO, Saronic Technologies · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dino Mavrookas is the co-founder and CEO of Saronic Technologies, an autonomous maritime defense company. He previously served 11 years as a U.S. Navy SEAL and worked as an investor at Vista Equity Partners.

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Mavrookas: Ship design must eliminate the need for 15-year master welders
“You can't create people with 15 years of experience overnight. So it goes back to the first principles approach design of the ship. Design the ship so you actually Don't need 15 years of welding experience to build it in the first place.”
Dino Mavrookas May 19, 2026 ▶ 3:58 Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
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Mavrookas: Auto/aerospace workers failing at shipbuilding signals bad design
“If somebody can't come out of somebody who's building a car for Ford or General Motors or an airplane at Boeing or a rocket ship for SpaceX, And we can't get them highly effective building ships quickly. That's our fault. That means our design isn't simple eno…”
Dino Mavrookas May 19, 2026 ▶ 4:30 Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
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Mavrookas: Saronic Marauder required ~50K labor hours versus 7-9M for destroyers
“For example, Marauders using is about a 50,000 labor hour on our first ship. Just for order of magnitude, put it in frame of reference. Apples and oranges comparison here. I'm going to acknowledge that up front, but a destroyer is seven to nine million labor h…”
Dino Mavrookas May 19, 2026 ▶ 2:28 Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
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Mavrookas: Saronic plans to build one of the world's largest shipyards
“Port Alpha is a generational product project. I mean, we're looking at building one of, if not the largest Shipyard in the world, focus on autonomous platforms, focus on the future of the maritime industry, unlocking the commercial market, building larger vess…”
Dino Mavrookas May 19, 2026 ▶ 7:10 Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
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Mavrookas: Defense startups need commercial revenue to sustain peacetime capacity
“Because at the end of the day, what our goal is, is to provide the department of war wartime production capacity during peacetime. And if we can't enter the commercial market in a viable, what an economic manner, Then we're just looking to the government for t…”
Dino Mavrookas May 19, 2026 ▶ 7:46 Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
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Mavrookas: U.S. shipbuilders must design vessels using less steel to rival China
“The only two levers you have to pull are material costs and labor costs. We're not going to buy steel cheaper than they're buying it in China. So you have to take a first principles design to the ship and just fundamentally use less steel.”
Dino Mavrookas May 19, 2026 ▶ 1:58 Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit

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Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit May 19, 2026 5m
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