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One person shouldn't block aligned defense programs
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1 person shouldn’t be able to block a defense program. “If there's a contracting officer that is blocking something that a program manager or leadership or a combatant commander are all aligned on, at the end of the day, you can't have 1 human who's not tied to the mission making arbitrary decisions based on a guidebook that doesn't have any wiggle for them.” @Saronic CCO Rob Lehman:
Molly O’Shea@MollySOSheaSep 10
BREAKING: Inside Saronic w/ all 4 Co-Founders An Autonomous Defense Prime $2.6B raised. $9.25B valuation. $3B+ shipyard. 4 years. FULL INTERVIEWS › Dino Mavrookas, CEO › Doug Lambert, COO › Rob Lehman, CCO › Vibhav Altekar, CTO @Saronic believes in order to rebuild America's maritime power we must build more ships, faster, cheaper, with autonomy designed in from day one. "What we're building at Saronic will not only provide more capabilities faster, but it'll save the taxpayer hundreds of billions of dollars by driving down costs as well." Stats: › Founded in 2022, valued at $9.25B on $2.6B raised › Building $3B+ Port Alpha shipyard in Brownsville, TX › First gov't agreement secured within 90 days of founding › Spyglass, Cutlass, Corsair & Marauder already in the water › Scaling from 24-foot vessels to 180-foot ships, with 400, 800 & eventually 1,200-foot scale in sight › Partnerships w/ Palantir, NVIDIA, Path Robotics & Starlink / Starshield across manufacturing, compute, autonomy & communications Investors: @8vc, @a16z, @eladgil, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, Caffeinated Capital, Franklin Templeton, Advent International, Bessemer, DFJ Growth, BAM Elevate Across all 4 conversations, we go inside the race to build ships faster than America has in decades, scale autonomous fleets from a handful to hundreds, rebuild the maritime supply chain, rethink defense acquisition reform & bring large-scale shipbuilding back to the U.S. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Dino, Doug, Rob, & Vib, Co-Founders of Saronic (00:56) America's shrinking naval fleet (06:02) How China wins on price (08:04) The Partnerships powering Saronic (10:55) What Hypergrowth actually requires (12:16) From Spyglass to Marauder: The Evolution (13:13) Inside Saronic's operating structure (14:43) What's actually slowing Re-Industrialization (17:16) Building a workforce from scratch (19:55) What Doug's looking forward to next (22:10) Why Hard Tech is the future (24:36) From the Marine Corps to Saronic (28:18) Winning a Government contract in 90 days (30:06) Why Acquisition reform matters so much (34:44) What's Next for Saronic? (36:15) From Juicero to Anduril to Saronic (39:54) Saronic's development process, Then & Now (42:48) Building Hardware and Software together (46:00) Biggest challenge in Maritime Autonomy (52:15) Saronic's key tech partnerships (53:55) Why Redundant comms are non-negotiable (55:15) When communication fails mid-mission (58:06) Why open source will define AI's future
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