Marauder
product on 3 shows · 7 statements across 3 episodes · said 21 times in 5 episodes since 2026
Sourcery 13 
All-In 7 
the a16z Podcast 1
Mentions by year, every show
tap a year for its mentions
Sourcery 13All-In 7the a16z Podcast 1
2026 21 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan
- Dino Mavrookas: America Needs to Build Ships Again
- Saronic's 4 Co-Founders on Building a $9.25B Shipbuilder | Part III
- Inside Saronic’s $9.25B Autonomous Boat Factory | CEO Dino Mavrookas
- Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
every mention on every show, scene by scene, with the transcript →
7 statements about Marauder, every show
Busch: Saronic bought most available Louisiana aluminum for Marauder
“For example, we wound up buying out a vast majority of the aluminum in the Louisiana area where we've been built with Marauder.”
Busch: Workers who can't change tires should be able to build ships
“There's no reason somebody who can't change a tire shouldn't be able to go and build a Corsair, or work on a Marauder, or work on a larger ship.”
Ganesh: Saronic bench-tested Marauder's propulsion stack months before ship construction
“And so for Marauder, for example, our 180 foot ship we built all of the internal kind of genset, propulsion stack, bow thruster, all of those components of the ship just in a room before, like probably eight months before the ship was built.”
Ganesh: Mass vessel volume fundamentally changes operational behavior versus prototypes
“The volume actually changes the core fundamentals of how that system get used. If you only have one, you're like babying it the whole time, but when you have hundreds, there's all sorts of interesting things that you can do.”
Ganesh: Fully unmanned fleets of Marauder-scale vessels have never been deployed
“Getting to the point where you have You know, a fleet of these that are completely unmanned just never been done before.”
Mavrookas: Saronic will test a hypersonic missile before a manned Navy vessel
“We're actually going to be able to launch a hypersonic missile off of the back of Marauder, which is an autonomous ship, Before the Navy completes their first test of a hypersonic missile off of a manned vessel.”
Mavrucas: Saronic will build 20 autonomous Marauder vessels yearly in Louisiana
“We're going to be building 20 Marauders per year at our shipyard in Louisiana, right? So now you can feel, we can carry the equivalent of 16 VLS tubes on the back of that 180 foot fully autonomous ship. So now you can feel 320 VLS tubes per year.”