Federal Aviation Administration
also referred to as: faa
11 statements across 8 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 15, 2024 by Delian Asparouhov · said 34 times in 14 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Adam Goldstein (10), Delian Asparouhov (8), Keller Rinaudo Cliffton (3), Eric Allison (3), Jordan Noone (2), Billy Talheimer (2), Stephen Slattery (1), Scott Nolan (1)
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2026 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Inside Zipline’s Factory: The World’s Largest Drone Delivery Network · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- I Tried Flying an Air Taxi With Archer’s CEO (Midnight Simulator) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- SpaceX Hit $2 Trillion. Now Everyone Wants a Jet · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Skydio HQ Tour: The $3.5B Bet on American Drone Manufacturing with CEO Adam Bry · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inside Jake Paul’s Empire: $200M Boxing Earnings to $65M+ Tech Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Zipline: The Largest Autonomous Delivery System on Earth (and You’ve Barely Heard of It) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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2025 23 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
- The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on U.S. Uranium Enrichment, General Matter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Sequoia Leads $75M Series B Into Nominal | Alfred Lin Joins Board · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Federal Aviation Administration, oldest first
Mar 15, 2024 positive
Jul 26, 2024
Mar 28, 2025 negative
Asparouhov: FAA delay forced Varda into eight-month hold and extra dilution
“Software companies don't have to deal with the FAA, putting them on hold for eight months. During those eight months, I had employees, we had Bern, we had an office, right? Like, you know, that's got to come out of somewhere, mostly ends up coming out of the f…”
Sep 7, 2025 positive
Sep 7, 2025 positive
Wing-in-ground craft are regulated by the Coast Guard, bypassing the FAA
“It turns out like, if you go into U S law, there's a definition of a winging ground effect craft as a vessel. We're like, that's pretty cool. So we can build this flying machine. So we have this high speed mobility. We can service this massive coastal market a…”
Sep 7, 2025 neutral
Globally, there are only four primary regulatory agencies that certify new aircraft
“So if you want to certify a plane, there's not very many places to go. There's generally four places to go. You can go to the U.S. Through the FAA, you can go to Europe through YASA, you can go through ANAC in Brazil, And then you can go to Transport Canada.”
Sep 7, 2025
FAA created Innovate28 to showcase scaled eVTOL flights at the 2028 Olympics
“So back in twenty-twenty-two, the FAA actually came out there and coined the term Innovate-twenty-eight, which was, we want the L.A. 28 Olympic Games to be the first time people see at scale one city show a lot of these aircraft. So think not just five or 10, …”
Oct 5, 2025 positive
Allison: Joby is conducting FAA-witnessed testing for aircraft certification
“We are working on the certification of our aircraft with FAA and what that entails is it's a very intensive process of first working with FAA to define what it means to even be able to design this type of an aircraft. And so setting up the rules essentially, a…”
Jan 17, 2026 positive
Jan 21, 2026 bullish