Trust Ventures General Partner Sal Churi discusses regulatory hurdles and access shortages in the vision care market.
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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”
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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…”
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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.”
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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 …”
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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.”
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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.”