Dino Mavrookas
Co-Founder and CEO, Saronic Technologies. On 2 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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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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4said about them ↓ Everything Dino Mavrookas said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
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.”
Mavrookas: Saronic Corsairs rescued downed Apache pilots and attacked Iranian port
“Corsairs, which you just saw, were actively being used in the Straits of Hormuz. Two examples that were made public were one, the Apache pilot rescue of two down pilots, And then a offensive attack on an Iranian port, which actually took out an Iranian submari…”
Mavrookas: China outbuilds the United States in shipbuilding 230 to one
“China outbuilds the US 230 to one.”
Mavrookas: Saronic will save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars
“What we're building at Cerronek will not only provide more capabilities faster, but it'll save the taxpayer hundreds of billions of dollars by driving down costs as well.”
Mavrookas: Naval power is determined by vessel quantity, not exquisite design
“And if you go back in history and you look at even just back to World War II, what has typically just determined naval power is who can build the most ships. It's not who can build the most exquisite, the most expensive, whose ships have the most on them in te…”
Mavrookas: China built over 1,000 commercial ships in 2024 versus five in the US
“They built over a thousand commercial ships last year, and the United States built five. I think this was 20, 24. Five. Like one, two, three, four, Five. Large, ocean-going commercial vessels.”
Mavrookas: South Korean and Japanese shipbuilders source modules and labor from China
“Our allies, South Korea and Japan, the next two largest shipbuilders in the world, they're actually, on the commercial side, they're actually getting a lot of their modules from China. They're getting a lot of their labor from China.”
Mavrookas: Five to ten new defense primes will scale within a decade
“I think over the next five to 10 years, I'll answer, I won't dodge the question completely. I think there will be somewhere, but around five to 10. I think you'll see five to 10 really, like, big impactful companies scale over the next five to 10 years, and ho…”
Mavrookas: Industrial volume, not exquisite design, determines naval power
“What has typically just determined naval power is who can build the
The most ships. It's not who can build the most exquisite, the most expensive, whose ships have the most on them in terms of payloads and weapons and all the other things. It's like, who can j…”
Mavrookas: China launches ~30 warships annually versus 5 to 10 US ships
“We being the U.S. Launch about five to 10 military, meaning destroyer, cruiser, aircraft carrier, like straight naval vessel warship. China's probably doing about 30, so six to one, seven to one, somewhere in there.”
Mavrookas: Port Alpha will create 10,000 jobs and $160B economic impact
“So what we're going to do at Port Alpha, you mentioned 10 years, over the next 10 years, we're going to create 10,000 jobs. We're going to invest billions of dollars. I mean, we're going to have a hundred and sixty billion dollar economic impact in Brownsville…”
Mavrookas: US shipbuilding capacity currently sits at 100,000 gross tons
“That's our initial build out that 1.5 X's the United States shipbuilding capacity right now, which sits at a 100,000 gross tons.”
Mavrookas: Saronic achieved first ever autonomous combat search and rescue
“Take the Apache pilot rescue, for example, that was the first ever combat search and rescue done with an autonomous system.”
Mavrookas: All-electric vessels cannot meet military range or payload needs
“What we learned from all-electric is you just don't get the range and the payload capacity. That the military is looking for.”
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.”
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…”
Mavrookas: Only one percent of the defense budget went toward autonomy
“One percent. One percent went towards autonomy.”
Mavrookas: China controls 57% of global shipbuilding capacity
“China has 57% of total global shipbuilding capacity.”
Mavrookas: US government moving faster on defense than ever seen before
“This is the fastest I've actually seen the government move with anything.”
Mavrookas: Only 1% of US defense budget allocated to autonomy
“When you look at the budget today, just look at the Department of War's budget, we talked about the request for 1.5 trillion, and where the budget is today, right around a trillion dollars for 26, one percent went towards autonomy.”
Mavrookas: The US must fund legacy defense primes alongside new builders
“There certainly is a role for the traditional fleet, and there should be investment into the legacy industrial defense industrial base as it stands, because we need the primes that exist today. We just need other companies to be built alongside of them to supp…”
Mavrookas: US lacks logistics ships to resupply troops during wartime
“Cause if we, Don't have tankers. If we don't have roll-on, roll-off vessels, it means we actually don't have the ships to resupply our force if we're actually in a conflict or a war.”
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