Sal Churi

Founder & General Partner, Trust Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Salen Churi is a co-founder and General Partner at Trust Ventures, backing startups in heavily regulated sectors like advanced nuclear energy and housing. He previously taught at the University of Chicago Law School, where he founded its Innovation Clinic, and co-authored The Trust Revolution.

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Assertion Supported

Churi: 2.5B People Globally Lack Access to Eye Exams

“Worldwide, two and a half billion people need an eye exam and can't get one. And even here in the States, 24% of U.S. Counties don't have an optometrist in them.”

Sal Churi Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 10:51 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale

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Assertion Partly supported

Churi: Oklo Reactor Reduces Waste Half-Life from 100k to 100 Years

“But when it comes out of the Oklo reactor at the end of 20 years it's only got about a hundred year half-life as opposed to about a 100,000”

Sal Churi Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 9:23 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale

Insight

Churi: Lawmakers fight past wars because regulations react to past tragedies

“Every, every law is in, in large part, a story about a tragedy that happened. A tragedy that they wish not to see happen again. And it usually is a response to sort of public outcry about something. And so, As a result, you get every lawmaker, to put it in sor…”

Sal Churi Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 2:50 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale

Insight

Churi: The Hardest Part of Building Nuclear Reactors Is Permitting

“One insight from working with Oklo on this is that the hardest part of building a nuclear reactor is not building it, it's not the physics, it's getting it permitted.”

Sal Churi Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 6:12 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale

Assertion Partly supported

Churi: Oklo Secured First-Ever Advanced Fission Site Permit and Fuel Grant

“And what they've just done in the past 12 months, they've not only gotten the first ever in history grant of test fuel for a advanced nuclear fission reactor, the first ever site permit for an advanced fission reactor, but most importantly, they got something …”

Sal Churi Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 6:20 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale

Disclosure

Churi: Trust Ventures avoids science projects and requires settled science

“We're not engaged in science projects, right? We want something where the science is fairly settled.”

Sal Churi Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 16:04 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale

Disclosure

Churi: Trust Ventures invested in Icon, which 3D-prints houses in 24 hours

“We did a company, we invested in a company called Icon, three D printed houses, right? It looks like a tube of toothpaste squirting out concrete and in 24 hours they can put up a house.”

Sal Churi Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 1:16 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale

Assertion Supported

Churi: 2.5B People Globally Lack Access to Eye Exams

“Worldwide, two and a half billion people need an eye exam and can't get one. And even here in the States, 24% of U.S. Counties don't have an optometrist in them.”

Sal Churi Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 10:51 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale

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Oklo's Amazing Small Reactor That Can Reuse Nuclear Waste · Joe Lonsdale Apr 6, 2022 · 1 mention · from 6:53
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Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lo	Sep 3, 2021	10m