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Landesberg: Seneca drones cover 30 square miles in sub-10 minutes
“Our aircraft covered 30 square miles. So you could cover a 30 square mile area in sub 10 minute response time with effectively a full engine's worth of suppression payload.”
Landesberg: Five Seneca drones carry enough payload for top-5% risk fires
“Exactly five drones. They always stay together and they fly either in series or like in a team, depending on what the, Use cases. They'll fly out, get to the fire, hopefully within five minutes or so of detection. And so that should be more than enough payload…”
Landesberg: Seneca drones can reload and refill from any fire engine
“They're built to load and return from the fire engine. So they go to the fire, deploy the sort of the full payload, and then they can come back to any fire engine, any water tender, get refilled and fly back out again.”
Landesberg: Targeting Seneca's Peak Valuation Multiple in Year 20
“I want to build a company where our enterprise value, like our multiple, right? That's used to determine our enterprise value is highest in year 20, right? Because that last, like, five years of compounding is actually the most valuable.”
Landesberg: Seneca will deploy dozens and hopefully hundreds of aircraft next year
“I mean, I will have certainly dozens of aircraft, hopefully hundreds next year.”
Holiday: Stoics engage in public life by default unlike Epicureans
“The distinction in the ancient world, the two rival schools are Epicureanism and Stoicism. And Seneca, one of the great Stoics, is saying, like, an Epicurean will get involved in public life if they have to. And he says, a Stoic gets involved in public life un…”
Isenberg: Ryan Holiday Is More Famous Than Marcus Aurelius or Seneca Today
“Ryan holiday is more famous than Marcus Aurelius and Seneca to most people today, because he's the one who's delivering the mess, the message. About stoicism in a way that people can understand nowadays via TikTok, via Twitter, via Instagram, via his books.”
Sherman: Finding self-compassion requires adopting an external loved one's perspective
“The stoic lesson here is that he's got to take on the perspective of someone else to become his own friend, to find self-compassion.”
Irvine: Roman Stoic Seneca was the 1st-century equivalent of a billionaire
“Seneca was counselor to an emperor, but he was also the greatest playwright of his time. He was also the first century AD equivalent of a billionaire, and he was a stoic.”
The most famous Stoics dominate because their written works survived completely
“The reason Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus are also the most famous is because their works survive the most completely. So all you really get from the other people are fragments anyway.”