Relentless

Sam Altman - How to Start a Startup 25.07.2026 1h 9m

Sam Altman is the Co-Founder & CEO of OpenAI.

Manufacturing 1,000s of Nuclear Reactors | Isaiah Taylor, Valar Atomics 01.07.2026 1h 31m

Isaiah Taylor is the Founder of Valar Atomics.Valar just became the first startup in history to power an NVIDIA Blackwell with a nuclear reactor.Timestamps:0:32 Manufacturing nuclear reactors is a SpaceX style problem2:58 Scaling from 1 reactor to 104:31 Why it’s so tempting to iterate on paper instead of actually building reactors7:37 Having contact with reality - modular shielding10:09 Steel is cheaper than software engineers11:09 Why the idiot index is so high in nuclear16:02 Becoming a nuclear company18:57 It's important not to lie to yourself21:55 Obsessing over critical path 24:54 Nuclear reactors are relatively simple30:35 Safety is a function of iteration speed30:55 Why Valar had to vertically integrate35:01 Designing a Toyota Camry vs a Ferrari 38:07 Running through 1-way doors41:13 Pulling rabbits out of a hat46:13 Wartime mode48:49 Being willing to do unreasonable things51:20 How Elon injects urgency into his companies56:56 Relentlessly chasing the goal of making energy 10x cheaper58:32 What’s changed over the last 3yrs1:00:51 Designing safe nuclear reactors1:13:05 Learning from SpaceX - optimizing for scale1:18:07 Having a high tolerance for looking dumb1:19:50 How Palmer Luckey handles hit pieces1:20:55 Inevitable time1:25:26 Predicting unknown bottlenecks1:28:08 Scaling1:29:45 July 4th will be a rebirth for nuclear in the United States

Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy — Ryan Petersen 26.05.2026 52m

Ryan Petersen is the Founder and CEO of Flexport.Timestamps:0:03 Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy2:29 The explosion in tariff fraud 8:58 The Dutch East India Company11:20 History of global trade14:39 1,000x spice markup17:53 The British East India Company24:02 How the British got 20% of China addicted to opium27:44 The Forbes family & opium trade30:40 Jewish trading networks37:33 It’s illegal to criticize the King of Thailand38:58 Strait of Hormuz45:58 Maritime chokepoints

How we're going to power the AI data center buildout | Energy Sec. Chris Wright & Scott Nolan 23.05.2026 1h 3m

This conversation on how we're going to power the AI data center buildout is between US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Scott Nolan, Founder and CEO of General Matter.

The Manufacturing Startup That's Outcompeting China | Jim Belosic, SendCutSend | Round II 19.05.2026 1h 1m

Jim Belosic is the founder and CEO of SendCutSend.

How to Start a Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey 05.05.2026 1h 5m

Lulu is a PR & Comms expert who works with many of the best startup founders in the world.

Why Elon Outcompetes Everyone | Eric Jorgenson 16.04.2026 1h 29m

Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Book of Elon.

How Brian Armstrong Built Coinbase 23.03.2026 1h 54m

My first interview with Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase.

Peter Beck — We're scaling Electron faster than SpaceX scaled Falcon 9 16.03.2026 1h 5m

My first interview with Peter Beck, Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab.

Manufacturing 1 million drones a year | Soren Monroe-Anderson, Neros 12.03.2026 1h 41m

Neros just acquired a new 250k square foot factory which will allow them to ramp production to 1M drones a year. This is my second interview with Soren Monroe-Anderson, Co-Founder and CEO of Neros.

What if Russia stopped selling uranium to the US tomorrow | Scott Nolan, General Matter 09.03.2026 1h 34m

The history of uranium enrichment, early days of SpaceX, how Peter Thiel thinks.

The US vs. China Manufacturing Debate 27.02.2026 1h 16m

My first debate on manufacturing between Sam D'Amico, founder of Impulse Labs, and Aaron Slodov, founder of Atomic Industries.

Space Datacenters | Baiju Bhatt, Aetherflux 22.02.2026 1h 25m

Baiju Bhatt is Co-Founder of Robinhood and Founder of Aetherflux. We talked about the early days of Robinhood, how he thinks about design and failure, and his plan to build orbital data centers.

The Quest to Cure Alzheimer's | Sacha Schermerhorn, Babylon Bio 14.02.2026 1h 23m

The history of Alzheimer’s research, structuring Babylon to survive many failures, filtering for missionaries vs mercenaries.

How micro1 grew from $4M to $200M revenue in a year | Ali Ansari 10.02.2026 1h 36m

micro1 is one of the fastest growing startups in the AI training data / human intelligence space. We talked about what it's like hiring hundreds of doctors and lawyers in a week, how they're collecting real world data for robotics, and what it was like losing their biggest customer.

The Future of Metal Manufacturing | Machina Labs 05.02.2026 1h 20m

My first interview with Ed Mehr, Co-Founder & CEO of Machina. What went wrong with early prototypes, rapid design iteration, why hardware companies require complex capital structures.

My Conversation with Mehul Nariyawala, Co-Founder of Matic 29.01.2026 2h 7m

Production hell, why simplicity is so important, pain as a moat.

WTF is happening at xAI | Sulaiman Ghori 15.01.2026 1h 11m

How Elon deals w fires, how xAI built their Colossus data center in 122 days, and why it's important to challenge requirements.

My Conversation with Shuo Wang, co-founder of deel 08.01.2026 1h 51m

My first interview with Shuo Wang, Co-Founder & CRO of Deel.

How Zipline Scaled to 2 Million Drone Deliveries | Keller Cliffton 29.12.2025 1h 6m

My first interview with Keller Cliffton, co-founder & CEO of Zipline.