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Saronic's 4 Co-Founders on Building a $9.25B Shipbuilder | Part III
- ▶ 10:22 Doug Busch We think about the local Texas footprint as building boats, whereas ships carry boats.
Inside Saronic’s $9.25B Autonomous Boat Factory | CEO Dino Mavrookas
- ▶ 5:22 Dino Mavrookas We can't afford any shipyards to go to zero, and we wanted to start building very, very quickly, so we stepped in, we retained the workforce, and we Penexed the workforce in Louisiana, in Franklin, Louisiana to be specific, and then here… 2 times in the scene
Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
- ▶ 1:53 Ben Lamm And we're like, we're in Texas.
- ▶ 11:44 Ben Lamm but yeah, having a giant, hundred thirty-pound Pleistocene wolves in our, in our Texas offices was probably a bad idea.
- ▶ 16:12 Ben Lamm Think about, you know, uh, the screw worm here in Texas, which is going to decimate the cattle industry.
Inside the Factory Behind Base Power's $1B Series D
- ▶ 3:04 Justin Lopas So when there's tightness on the grid from everybody plugging in their EVs and turning on their AC and it's hot in the summer or very cold in the winter here in Texas or anywhere else, the batteries provide that support. 3 times in the scene
BlackRock's Tony Kim on AI's Next Winners? Chips, Memory, Robotics & Quantum · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:07 CJ Desai So this large customer in Texas, speaking to them, they have really good partnership with one of the hyperscalers.
- ▶ 9:07 CJ Desai These hyperscalers, some of them, are running out of capacity, and they're running out of capacity, so this large customer in Texas, speaking to them, they have really good partnership with one of the hyperscalers. 3 times in the scene
SpaceX IPO: Inside the Firm That Owns 1% · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 24:45 Justin Fishner-Wolfson And if you go down to South Texas now, like, like, and I've, I've been down there and like, sometimes when they launch in the morning, it's like dark when you're driving down towards the launch pad and you'll just see everyone like lined…
Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 39:35 Eric Romo but I, so I was in the, uh, an analyst on the team, but the team was so small, um, that I basically just had to, like, stay attached to Tom no matter where he went, and it was right around the time when I joined in early 2003 when the team… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:27 Eric Romo Like when I would go with Tom to the middle of the desert in Texas, and I would sit in the bunker and play with my spreadsheets all day, and the guys were out there, you know, blowing stuff up, that was always, seemed like a lot of fun,…
CIO of Marc & Ben's Multi-Family Office: SpaceX IPO, Anthropic & OpenAI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 14:33 Molly O'Shea That's going to be a very large wealth creation event across California, Texas, wherever, you know, alumni have gone after.
Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 24:33 Molly O'Shea Incoming drought for a lot of demand, and I know SpaceX is not only LA, but it's also Texas, and there are definitely differences there, but in terms of that, what do you make up of, like, where should they go?
- ▶ 36:30 Michel Del Buono So leaving your house here, your main house and moving to Texas or Florida for, for a year or two with the intent of coming back, it doesn't qualify.
Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 15:02 Scott Morton Chica, Texas, you know, now known as Starbase, and there were, like, a number of other key hardware engineers, but the awesome thing is, like, we were, you know, as this tiny team, we were able to make decisions super quickly, and just,…
Elon Musk & The SpaceX IPO: Largest Wealth Event in History? | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 36:01 Shaun Maguire It'd be okay in Texas too. 3 times in the scene
$635M Exit → $600M Fund: David Ulevitch on Building a16z’s Hottest New Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 6:29 David Ulevitch So base energy is, they're starting in Texas, but they'll expand from there.
How Ryan Serhant Sold $20B in Real Estate with Media & AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 49:33 Ryan Serhant You know, where's not San Francisco, uh, Los Angeles, all of Texas, because they say, why go up in the air?
Base Power Raises $1B led by Addition, with Trust Ventures, Lightspeed, a16z, Altimeter, Elad Gil · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 10:13 Zach Dell Um, by the way, I wouldn't recommend knocking on random doors in Texas, uh, because you get some,
- ▶ 21:16 Molly O'Shea Like, Texas, for me, like, that seems like
- ▶ 26:16 Zach Dell And there's different things that you can do with that flexibility in Texas or some regulatory implications outside of Texas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:17 Molly O'Shea So BASE is also now qualified for Texas AIDER program. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:51 Zach Dell Uh, start moving batteries off the line, uh, enter our, our, our next state, launch our speed to power product with our first partner, uh, talk a little bit more about some of the new products we're working on, expand our, our partnership…
Apple in China: Tim Cook’s $275B Pledge | Patrick McGee · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 23:11 Patrick McGee He would know far better than a journalist merely talking to his underlings what it was like to train these forces, and what the impact is today in that we can't build in Texas or Pittsburgh, but the Chinese absolutely can.
How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 2:14 Molly O'Shea You're doing a lot of work, of course, down in Texas.
Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:22 Molly O'Shea The Texas floods is one of the things, and you were dragged through the media.
- ▶ 15:20 Molly O'Shea I mean, the, the Texas floods is, is one of the things, and you were dragged through the media, and you actually, I mean, you did a world-class job, and people commended you for that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:56 Alex Levy Atmo now operates the most, uh, advanced wind forecasting model in Texas. 3 times in the scene
Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on U.S. Uranium Enrichment, General Matter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 10:54 Scott Nolan So, um, you know, Utah, Texas, Wyoming,
Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
How Altimeter's $10B AUM Fund Is Investing In Aerospace, Defense, & Hardtech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 49:51 Eric Crispin Yeah, Zach is, is pretty exceptional at pitching Texas in Austin in particular.
Base Power's $200M Series B | Co-Led by Lee Fixel, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:31 Zach Schendel Uh, we'll expand the team, we'll deploy more batteries to the power grid in Texas and beyond.
- ▶ 3:44 Zach Schendel Uh, is gonna help, um, bring capacity to the power grid here in Texas and ultimately to the rest of the country.
- ▶ 7:30 Molly O'Shea And how did you pick Texas to start the company? 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:26 Justin White Brownsville, uh, Texas site now, now Starbase, but at the time was Brownsville and to, uh, actually just literally an overgrown field.
- ▶ 25:29 Justin White Uh, and that allows us to build out the team, uh, understand what customers care about, um, jump through all the regulatory hoops to even sell power on the Texas grid, um, start meeting with regulators.
- ▶ 30:36 Justin White I'm interested to battery is operating on their home, providing them backup and serving the Texas grid. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:50 Molly O'Shea So I want to talk more about Texas and why it's so special, um, particularly on the regulation standpoint. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:22 Zach Schendel When, when, when it gets really hot in Texas, people are super focused on the power grid. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:00 Justin White And so that'd be the only thing I'd add to what Zach said is, uh, in, you know, five or 10 years, we want to be sort of a household name in terms of, uh, electricity, uh, not just here in Texas. 2 times in the scene
How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 29:32 Packy McCormick Like, it actually does get cheaper because when, you know, there's, there's sometimes in Texas and in California when it's so sunny that they pay you to take electricity off of their hands. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:26 Packy McCormick So as somebody in the markets that they're in, in Texas, and they're doing Houston, maybe soon, uh, and in and around kind of Austin, uh, now, um, you can sign up direct, they'll come install a battery, you pay the install costs, and then…
Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 48:16 Sam D'Amico Like if you buy a, if you buy a, uh, cyber truck, the battery packets made in Texas, if you buy a Tesla model three, the battery packets made in Nevada, um, near Reno.
John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 58:03 John Coogan Like, I, I think it's just like, I don't know, people in Texas want something to talk about.