Dino Mavrucas
Co-Founder and CEO, Saronic Technologies. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Dino Mavrookas co-founded Saronic Technologies in 2022, a defense technology company developing autonomous surface vessels and AI maritime platforms. Before Saronic, he served 11 years as a U.S. Navy SEAL and worked as a private equity investor at Vista Equity Partners and H.I.G. Capital.
2shows
2appearances
30statements
15resolved
12supported
1contradicted
80%fully supported
Everything Dino Mavrucas said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mavrucas: China will flip all commercial shipbuilding to defense if conflict starts
“If a conflict kicks off, that commercial capacity isn't going to go to building cargo containers anymore. It's all going to flip to defense capacity, and it's going to be building for what the Chinese Communist Party needs to win a conflict.”
Mavrucas: Only 1% of the defense budget goes to autonomous systems
“When you look at the overall defense department of war's budget, One percent goes to autonomous systems.”
Mavrucas: Modern shipyards can cut US shipbuilding costs in half
“We think just by investing in product and processes and new shipyards, we can cut the cost of a ship in the United States in half. So if you have a ship that costs three hundred million dollars, we can get that under a hundred and fifty million.”
Mavrucas: China outbuilds the US in shipping tonnage 230 to 1
“The United States can build a 100,000 gross tons of ships every year. Gross ton is this volumetric measure of ships, so if you build, you know, a 200 foot ship, that's different than an 800 foot ship, but let's compare apples to apples. A 100,000 gross tons. T…”
Mavrucas: US-built ships cost five to six times more than Chinese ships
“So the ship built in the United States is actually five to six times the cost of that same ship built in China.”
Mavrucas: US Navy fleet shrank to 296 ships, retiring 19 while building 9
“So the US Naval fleet has 296 ships today. There's a congressional mandate, statutory minimum of 355 ships that was set by Congress in 2018. That was eight years ago. Last year, we built nine ships, but we retired 19 naval vessels.”
Mavrucas: China built 1,000 commercial ships last year versus America's five
“They delivered over a thousand commercial ships last year. The United States built five.”
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.”
Mavrucas: Saronic can build 2,000 Corsair vessels annually in Austin
“We can build 2000 Corsair per year right now at our manufacturing facility in Austin.”
Mavrucas: Securing the Strait of Hormuz requires under 1,000 autonomous vessels
“I don't think you need a thousand. I don't think it's a 20 mile wide straight.”
Mavrucas: Military AI drives scale and efficiency, not war-making decisions
“Artificial intelligence actually just gives the military the opportunity to, one, operate at a greater scale and then operate more efficiently. These aren't robots actually just making decisions on when to go to war or not.”
Mavrucas: Saronic is negotiating with Asian, European, and Middle Eastern allies
“We're talking to our allies in Asia, obviously in Europe and in the Middle East right now about getting not only our products there, but also how do we stand up, you know, domestic production in those countries?”
Mavrucas: Saronic's 800-acre site is the largest US shipyard
“800 acre plot of land, which in and of itself, 800 acres is now the largest shipyard in the United States.”
Naval Supremacy and Fleet Size Still Determine Modern Global Power
“In modern history, global power has been determined by naval power, and naval power has been determined by who has the most ships.”
China Has 250 Times the Shipbuilding Capacity of the United States
“They have 250 times our shipbuilding capacity, and they have 50% of the world's shipbuilding capacity.”
Maritime Drone Technology Lagged Aerial Drone Swarms by Twenty Years
“There was this huge gap in the market that we saw when we started the company where The technology was really 15 and 20 years behind. So the drone swarms that you see in the aerial domain didn't exist in maritime before Saronix started.”
Mavrucas: Saronic has raised $2.5 billion in private capital
“To date, we're just about four years old. We've raised two and a half billion dollars in private capital.”
Mavrucas: Saronic will invest billions and create 10,000 shipyard jobs
“We're gonna invest billions of dollars into this project. We're gonna create 10,000 jobs over the next 10 years.”
Mavrucas: Saronic gives company equity and tech benefits to shipyard tradespeople
“Every one of our employees, every welder, every pipe fitter they have good wages, the same benefits as our Silicon Valley software engineers. They have equity in our company.”
Modern Aircraft Carriers Cost Ten Billion Dollars and Take Ten Years
“Today, the U.S. Navy has 11 aircraft carriers. They cost ten billion dollars, and they take 10 years to make.”
Saronic Launched Anduril Drones From Its Autonomous Surface Vessels
“So we work really closely with them. We've done integrations. And to your point, we've integrated with Altius, launched it off of our 14 foot platform. We did that really quickly.”
Former Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite Now Advises Saronic
“Secretary Braithwaite, who was the former Secretary of the Navy, is an advisor for us. Admiral Michael Gilday, who is the latest Chief of Naval Operations from 2019 to 2023. This was the person that was in the seat solving this problem for the Navy. Is working…”
The Military Push Into Unmanned Systems Is This Generation Space Race
“The push in the unmanned systems is really our generation's version of the space race. We haven't seen, and I personally haven't seen the military move this fast in my lifetime to acquire new types of technologies.”
Lack of Scalable Hardware and Software Blocked Navy Mass Drone Adoption
“The biggest problem, well, the biggest problem that they were facing was reliability and scalability. So you can't adopt thousands of platforms if you can't get thousands of platforms. So it's building that reliability and scalability, not just in the hardware…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Dino's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 ALL-INLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, Saronic Technologies | 1 | 18 | 89% 8/9 | full record on All-In → |
 AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, Saronic Technologies | 1 | 12 | 67% 4/6 | full record on American Optimist → |