Molly O’Shea@MollySOSheaSep 7

BREAKING: Inside Saronic’s HQ Tour in Austin, TX w/ Co-Founder & CEO Dino Mavrookas (@MavrookasD) FACTORY TOUR (Part I) Founded in 2022, @Saronic has grown from testing autonomy on an $800 Amazon raft to building vessels at industrial scale at their 420K sqft facility - home to Corsair & Mirage autonomous vessel production lines. Now, they're expanding into shipbuilding with Port Alpha, a $3B+, 835-acre shipyard in Brownsville, TX. We cover: › Corsair: 2,000-unit annual capacity & a $392M Navy production contract › Mirage: 52 feet, 15X Corsair’s volume, 2,500 nm range & now in sea trials › Port Alpha: $3B+, 835 acres & 1.5X current U.S. shipbuilding capacity › The first autonomous combat search & rescue, recovering 2 downed Apache aircrew off Oman › Corsair’s combat debut at Bandar Abbas Part I of III 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Dino Mavrookas, Co-Founder & CEO at Saronic Technologies (00:55) Saronic's $2.6B raise (03:14) 7 Buildings, One mission (06:43) Watching Corsairs get built (09:04) How Saronic finds & trains talent (10:48) Why Saronic's boats are different (14:55) From factory floor to customer (15:48) Using autonomy in real missions (17:39) Building ships with zero room for failure (19:06) The Biggest bottleneck in autonomy testing (19:57) Saronic's newest boat (22:57) The $800 raft that started it all (26:08) From boats to building actual ships (30:43) If not CEO, then what? (31:48) The culture behind long hours