Mitch Lee

Co-founder & CEO, Arc Boats · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mitch Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Arc Boats, a startup designing and manufacturing high-performance, all-electric craft and commercial vessels. Before founding Arc in 2021, he studied mechanical engineering and economics at Northwestern University and founded the personal finance app Penny, which was acquired by Credit Karma.

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5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mitch argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Arc's electric boats produce over twice the torque of premium gas boats

“We've got over twice the torque of even the most premium boats out there, and we size up our propeller, which is, you kind of think of it like the tire for boats. It, it's what allows you to transfer power into the water. We have a bigger propeller so that we …”

Mitch Lee Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 1:09:00 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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What they said7 Episodes1

Everything Mitch Lee said on Sourcery that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Electric boat startups face execution risk, not tech risk, thanks to EVs

“There's also not a lot of technology risk in what we're doing because the automotive industry has existed for the past 10 years and like has been plowing money into electrification and high voltage power electronics and battery supply chains for 10 plus years …”

Mitch Lee Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 1:02:31 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Traditional boat builders lack software and electrical engineers to integrate components

“What that naturally means is that the industry has evolved in a way where most people are buying most components off the shelf, and that means none of them are integrated. You have your Garmin display, you have JL speakers, you have, like all of these things a…”

Mitch Lee Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 59:03 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Opinion

Transitioning to electric boats offers a larger UX upgrade than electric cars

“Again, in going from gas to electric, it's not a gas car to electric car. Like, it's a gas leaf blower to an electric leaf blower. The percent improvement in the experience is dramatically better.”

Mitch Lee Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 1:02:08 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Assertion Supported

Arc's electric boats produce over twice the torque of premium gas boats

Mitch Lee Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 1:09:00 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Arc Boats delivered its first electric boat with under $20M deployed

“We brought our first product to market with less than twenty million dollars deployed, like delivered it to a customer.”

Mitch Lee Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 1:11:12 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Assertion Supported

Arc Boats builds massive custom 226 kWh battery packs in-house

“We do that by building our own battery packs in-house. They're giant battery packs, 226 kilowatt hours, so, you know, the size of multiple electric sedans put together.”

Mitch Lee Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 54:34 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Assertion Supported

Arc Boats reached its first customer delivery in 24 months

“We went zero to first boat on the water in about three months at ARC. We went zero to first customer delivery in about 24 months, and our next products are on an even faster timeline.”

Mitch Lee Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 56:06 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea	Sep 7, 2025	15m

Mitch Lee

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