Arc Boats brings Tesla and SpaceX manufacturing principles to maritime
Grant Gregory · Big Ideas 2024: A New Age of Maritime Exploration with Grant Gregory · Dec 24, 2023 · at 10:27
Grant Gregory, Partner on the American Dynamism team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), discusses how maritime tech startups are borrowing engineering and manufacturing playbooks from aerospace and EV pioneers.
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“Arc boats has done a great job of encapsulating what the future of maritime looks like in that, you know, from a process and team perspective, Mitch and Ryan delivered the Tesla and SpaceX vision and mission to maritime. They're not just creating Consumer boats that are electrified. They're actually building better boats that are more user-friendly, they're more functional, and they're way more appealing to the average consumer.”
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