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What does building rockets at SpaceX teach you about building autonomous boats at scale? @Saronic’s Head of Manufacturing spent 10 years at SpaceX. Now, he’s applying the same manufacturing principles to maritime: “He always talks about building the system that builds the system, but then also very quickly identifying where the system is not working.” “When you have this linear flow, you can see there's actually no boat in that workstation.. basically, my kids could walk through this…
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