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Saronic's 4 Co-Founders on Building a $9.25B Shipbuilder | Part III Sep 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

Inside Saronic’s $9.25B Autonomous Boat Factory | CEO Dino Mavrookas Sep 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:20 Dino Mavrookas The other thing I want to highlight there is we actually started working on this before the very, very first USV strike happened in Ukraine.

The $2.5B Drone Company Trying to Become the Toyota of Defense Aug 11, 2026 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 5:36 Molly O'Shea So let's talk about the state of modern conflict, because this is clearly evolved tremendously in a short amount of years, especially with the Ukraine war. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:48 Soren Monroe-Anderson So to, uh, Ukraine and to Russia, and they have by far the strongest drone and just electronics industrial base. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:12 Soren Monroe-Anderson I mean, I think, like, it's a, it's a morally corrupt approach, um, but although it would also be far worse for Ukraine if they didn't have access to Chinese components. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:38 Soren Monroe-Anderson Um, you know, we started the company in 2023, and so the scale of what was happening, like, scale of drones in Ukraine was already apparent. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:49 unnamed speaker Why have so many American firms left Ukraine? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:17 Soren Monroe-Anderson I think this is an advantage we have, um, compared to the situation that a lot of Ukrainian companies are in, where they're extremely good at the rapid iteration, but they don't have as much of an ability to pull back and do the long-term,… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:18 Soren Monroe-Anderson Like, the frontline has evolved since this, in Ukraine at least, you know, since the start of the full-scale invasion, um, and it's, it's changed shape, but it is a constant, uh, area where new things are just being tried, and, and, you… 2 times in the scene

SemiAnalysis, Altimeter, Nebius, Glean.. 12 Hot Takes From Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:24 Ariel Cohen I was one of the first ones to start an offshore operation in Ukraine, in Odessa, Ukraine, and I went there, arrived there in the middle of the night, freezing cold.

AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:09 unnamed speaker David Friedberg, as well, warning about the famine in Ukraine at the start of the Ukraine war. 2 times in the scene

300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 29, 2026 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 0:20 Kyle Harrison Ukraine snuck a million dollars worth of drones into Russian territory, and basically were responsible for like seven billion dollars of damage, and destroyed like
  • ▶ 17:39 Kyle Harrison And you look at Ukraine, like that has been like, basically as I tweet, somebody described like Ukraine was like, um, like the military industrial complex in production where it's like they're, they're live testing stuff. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:57 Kyle Harrison In Ukraine, it's just, we try something and we immediately field it, and you get a ton of experience. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:37 Kyle Harrison I actually think that you go back to, like, Ukraine as sort of a wake-up call for a lot of people, or even Chinese posturing in the, um, the South China Sea and stuff with Taiwan, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:52 Molly O'Shea But going back to, um, Ukraine as the wake-up call, so how does this then inflict on timelines and what's coming up next? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:44 Kyle Harrison The biggest, like, proof point of, of Anduril's sort of capabilities is you look at, like, in Ukraine, um, Palmer says that, uh, Anduril has had products on the ground in Ukraine basically since day one. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:50 Kyle Harrison It is not always because we're going to build a batch of drones and send immediately to Ukraine for deployment.
  • ▶ 1:23:44 Kyle Harrison Anderil as a company, I would say, the, the vibe shifted hard in, um, you know, twenty-twenty-two, around the time of, uh, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but what's interesting is there was this sort of, like, um, dip, like one-two-punch… 2 times in the scene

Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:10 Max Levchin It's one of these self-fulfilling prophecies, so I grew up in Ukraine, and there's a culture of coffee drinking, and my dad was really into drinking espresso, so when I was, like, five years old, he would buy a shot of espresso at a coffee…
  • ▶ 6:55 Max Levchin So I grew up in Ukraine, and there is a

Zipline: The Largest Autonomous Delivery System on Earth (and You’ve Barely Heard of It) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:31 Keller Rinaudo Cliffton So these systems, and, and by the way, you see that in Ukraine, where it's like the vast majority of those drones that were being used, they're basically commercial drones with, like, slight modifications, you know, where you put Z-IV on…

Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf on $1B+ Revenue & Still Doubling · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 16, 2025 · 1 mention

Inside Anduril: Exclusive HQ Tour w/ Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm & Trae Stephens · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 15, 2025 · 1 mention

Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:45 Emil Michael Um, the head of policy who's, like, worked with the Ukraine-Russia policy and all that.
  • ▶ 17:07 Emil Michael So the, what, what is, the Russia-Ukraine war taught us a lot of things.

How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:22 David Ulevitch If you look at the war in the Ukraine, um, you'll see that, like, the, the evolution of drone warfare on the battlefield has changed dramatically.
  • ▶ 20:30 David Ulevitch One is that there's just increasing realization, whether you look at what's happening in the Ukraine, or you look at what's happening from, um, across the Pacific Ocean in China, their ability to build ships is much, much faster than ours.

CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 5, 2025 · 1 mention

Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 8, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:13 Ashlee Vance They're like, yeah, nobody's ever answered the China Air customer support number in, like, like, 20 years, and so, and I had to get to Ukraine, like, the next day, and, and it was, it was like, I couldn't book my ticket until it was… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:31 Ashlee Vance I went to Ukraine to where they made all the ICBMs for the Soviets for

How Palantir Is Modernizing the Military With AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 22, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:21 Greg Little And if we think of what's happening in Russia, Ukraine, while people often talk about AI and autonomy, the real narrative is about quantity.
  • ▶ 4:15 Greg Little And if it was interesting about the US Navy, and one thing when I talked to admirals is they'll take the Russia Ukraine example, which is fascinating. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:24 Greg Little The Russia-Ukraine war, hundreds of thousands have died on each side.
  • ▶ 24:10 Greg Little Russia, Ukraine, I think woke up
  • ▶ 28:23 Greg Little So when I was in the building, we were using the platform that supported the financial statement audit to be able to respond to COVID-nineteen, to respond to the Afghan neo, to respond to the Russia-Ukraine war.

Inside Hadrian's $260M Series C to Advance Manufacturing in America · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:38 Chris Power And this year, I think what we're seeing is that especially with the shortage of weapons systems, Ukraine, Israel, and Iran, uh, certainly a shortage in Taiwan is that

How Altimeter's $10B AUM Fund Is Investing In Aerospace, Defense, & Hardtech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:23 Eric Crispin Um, you know, given, sort of, like, Ukraine and, in, in Israel, um, and rebuilding the stockpile is super important for, sort of, like, deterrence.

SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:15 Christian Garrett Some countries, you know, and then after really, uh, uh, uh, more recently with, uh, the administration making that very clear that they're not just going to support Europe blindly, um, and they're going to push for peace in Ukraine and…

Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 11, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:53 Alex Kolicich And if you look at, we track obviously the war in Ukraine quite closely. 2 times in the scene

Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary on Techno-Optimism, Talent Vortexes, & Writing “Investing 101” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:38 Kyle Harrison And then for a while, like Ukraine and stuff, like defense became exciting and, and AI is exciting and like, oh, great.

Get Tesla Big | Chris Power, Hadrian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:10 Chris Power So you can see this in like, we've promised Taiwan and the Ukraine munitions.
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