Episodes
Interview with Laura Demming & Hunter Davis for Episode 47 of S³ featuring Cradle
0:00 What is Cradle?
2:18 Laura & Hunter’s backgrounds
9:39 Timeline to reversible cry
13:04 Next milestone
15:33 Sci-fi inpsiration
18:35 3 Body Problem
21:10 More builders
24:38 How do you think?
29:39 Getting people into bio
31:25 Where in the future would you go?
32:55 Current life philosophy
Published 06/14/24
0:00 What is Fuse?
1:16 Background (pre-potato guns)
3:22 Founding at 19, why?
4:13 Why fusion?
5:47 Energy transportability
6:43 Potato guns
8:38 Main Fuse facilities
11:01 Intense Fuse culture
12:27 Why?
14:01 Fixing bureaucracy
15:28 How do you think
16:45 Learnings
20:06 US vs China in fusion
21:52 Deep tech issues
23:30 The S³ problem
26:52 Current life philosophy
Published 06/06/24
0:00 Intro
0:43 Notes on the wall
2:50 What is Daylight
6:12 Duality
7:58 Why?
12:17 Biggest learnings
15:18 What to do in life
19:00 Kink?
23:52 Hardest technical challenge
26:20
31:00 Should we inspire people?
35:11 Current life philosophy
Published 05/26/24
Interview with CEO & Cofounder of Forward Adrian Aoun for Episode 44 of S³
0:00 What & why is the CarePod?
3:21 A career in AI
6:01 Future of AI
7:47 The Google Problem
12:42 Larry Page’s right hand man
15:08 First principles thinking
17:16 Founder learnings
19:57 I wanted to start a police force
22:35 The future of society & AI
25:39 Inspiring people
29:34 How do you think?
31:28 Current life philosophy
Published 05/21/24
Interview with CEO & Cofounder of Hermeus AJ Piplica for Episode 42 of S³.
0:00 What is Hermeus
0:57 Why go fast?
5:09 Founding inspiration
10:16 Planning something big
15:50 First 6 months
18:44 Pain of building
21:45 Mental models for speed
24:41 Why haven’t we done this yet?
28:25 Keeping high speed travel
32:15 What to build
34:58 Current life philosophy
Published 05/13/24
Interview with roboticist, fine fashion maker, 3D-weaving inventor, CTO & Cofounder of unspun Kevin Martin for Episode 42 of S³
0:00 Oops, it’s dark now
0:32 What is unspun?
3:08 My dad crashed an F-16
4:08 K-pop, robots
6:52 Meeting cofounders
9:13 Inventing 3D weaving
11:08 Catching up to China
12:26 Founder learnings
16:22 How do you think?
18:15 Inspiring Gen-Z, maybe?
23:22 Future of robotics
26:33 How do we distribute automation wealth?
28:31 Current life philosophy
Published 05/06/24
Interview with quantum maxer, e/acc founder, thermodynamic pioneer, CEO & Cofounder of Extropic Guillaume Verdon for Episode 41 of S³
0:00 What’s behind you?
1:29 What is Extropic?
4:08 Young Gill
7:12 Why Extropic?
11:25 Secret quantum lab experience
13:05 How does Extropic work?
16:20 Hardest technical challenge
17:50 Quantum & silicon strapping
20:56 Why decentralize AI
24:00 Doomerism
25:48 E/acc vitality
28:13 Regulatory capture
30:32 Founder learnings
31:36 How do you...
Published 04/28/24
Interview with founding member of Oculus, hardware-pioneer, and CEO of Framework, Nirav Patel.
0:00 Breaking into Framework HQ
1:11 Experience at Apple
2:05 Becoming employee 0001 at Oculus
3:20 What worked for Oculus?
4:30 Founding Framework
6:32 GTM for Framework & Linus
9:48 Advice for hardware
12:22 Nirav on AI Hardware
15:36 Raising little, huge impact
17:00 Hardest technical challenge
18:33 Emerging research/tech
19:06 How do you think?
20:26 Master plan
22:01...
Published 04/14/24
Interview with carbon-carbon printer, artificial solar sun schemer, space robotics guru, and future-space pirate Cole Nielsen-Cole, CTO of Orbital Composites.
0:00 Founding inspiration
4:53 Similarity between drones & satellites
6:20 Why Carbon Fiber is hard
9:42 Heat treatment for rocket nozzles
14:38 Cole’s artificial sun
16:59 List everything you’re doing
21:28 What first inspired you?
24:44 More projects
27:58 Orbital & Artemis mission
30:39 Why care about...
Published 04/08/24
Interview with Loyal CEO and Founder Celine Halioua for Episode 37 of S³.
0:00 Dogs!
1:05 Celine’s founding inspiration
5:37 Research vs. spinning out
7:20 Celine’s superpower
8:20 Hardest technical challenge
10:14 Can bio revolutionize?
15:32 Stories from raising
18:56 Bio vs Hardtech vs Software
21:38 How do you think?
24:14 Founder learnings
26:38 Solo vs Cofounding
27:23 What deep tech gets wrong
32:01 Current life philosophy
Published 03/31/24
0:00 Casey’s background
6:52 Casey’s Mars map
8:08 Terraform inspiration
15:04 Vision quest
17:32 Hardest technical challenge
19:35 How do you think?
24:48 Exciting future tech/research
31:11 Uncommon question
35:03 Inspiring the world
38:26 Current life philosophy
Published 03/24/24
0:00 Founding inspiration
2:46 Retro design vision
5:40 Decentralized manufacturing
10:26 Highlights building
12:30 How to design a beautiful car
17:20 Different customer demand
24:29 Supply chain
27:20 Updates for Olympian
30:44 What deep tech gets wrong
33:00 Hardest engineering problem
36:15 Our own “Gigapress”
37:42 Uncommon question
40:40 Current life philosophy
Published 03/18/24
0:00 Intro
0:42 Zane loves sensors
1:38 Zane’s experience with US Military
3:45 Improving the military industrial complex
5:19 I want an F-35
7:43 Founding inspiration
9:09 Hardest technical challenge
14:22 Future tech
17:40 Uncommon question (Funny VC dig)
20:30 What does deep tech get wrong?
23:28 Best Call of Duty games
24:25 How to know what to work on?
27:30 How do you think?
29:05 Current life philosophy
Published 03/10/24
0:00 Verdie!
1:05 Their approach
2:55 Your business model
4:17 Founding inspiration
5:22 Origin of the idea
7:13 Nag’s first company
8:59 Why didn’t you quit?
10:22 AGI & Singularity
12:02 The S³ mission
13:11 Cutting edge research
14:08 Hardest technical challenge
15:30 Fundamental AI shifts
16:43 What deep gets wrong
18:00 How do you think?
18:47 Uncommon question
20:20 Physical based AI
22:04 Biggest learning
25:38 Current life philosophy
Published 03/03/24
Interview with CEO and Cofounder Chris Power of Hadrian for Episode 32 of S³
Apologies for how bad my audio is and Chris's camera angle in this episode, it was my 2nd time filming the S³ podcast which resulted in some ~learnigng experiences~
2:40 Why full-stack?
5:30 Hadrian tech stack
8:30 Software approach
11:10 Software importance
14:24 A general manufacturing solution
16:41 Exciting research & tech
17:38 Deep tech pitfalls
19:00 Biggest learning
20:41 Uncommon question
22:36...
Published 02/25/24
Podcast with Aleh Kandrashou of Cuby for Episode 31 of S³
0:00 We filmed remotely!
0:29 Before founding: physics
3:43 Tech behind Cuby
4:43 Emerging tech
6:06 Hardest challenge
7:05 Mistakes building hard tech
7:53 Uncommon questions
8:38 How do you think?
10:05 Next for Cuby
11:38 How to change the world
12:25 What is your life philosophy?
Published 02/18/24
Interview with Augustus Doricko, CEO & Founder of Rainmaker for their feature on episode 30 of S³: • We Can Control The Weather | Rainmaker 0:00 Based & burnt thumb
2:03 Before founding Rainmaker
8:17 Hardest problem with Rainmaker
10:03 Future tech & research
13:16 Founder learnings
14:58 What does hard tech get wrong?
16:22 Chemtrails
17:35 How do you think?
19:27 Culture war
23:38 the Bible
25:44 What is your life philosophy?
Published 02/11/24
Interview with Soren Monroe-Anderson, CEO & Cofounder of Neros for their feature on episode 29 of S³: https://youtu.be/gHdWzhZurk8
Neros website: https://www.neros.tech/
0:00 World champion drone pilot
2:40 Neros founding inspiration
4:13 What did you learn founding?
5:09 Storytelling
6:07 Geopolitics of manufacturing
8:04 Hardware over software
9:13 Why the US is behind
10:09 How does US catch up?
12:09 How to build hard tech
14:01 Cutting edge research
15:19 Future of...
Published 02/04/24
Interview with Sam D'Amico, CEO & Founder of Impulse for their feature on episode 28 of S³: https://youtu.be/YdawGen0QPc
0:00 Fresh from CES 2024
1:20 Building solar cars
3:49 What is the Impulse master plan?
6:13 From Oculus VR to founding
8:02 Pizza?
12:25 Deciding what to build
13:52 Most interesting engineering problem
15:35 Upcoming battery breakthroughs
16:57 Supply chain!!!
18:48 Advice for manufacturing partners
19:36 Founder learnings
20:26 What do most hardware startups get...
Published 01/28/24
Interview with Anton Troynikov, CTO & Cofounder of Chroma for their feature on Episode 27 of S³
0:00 Anton and AI & robotics2:51 Discrete vs Vector Data
4:13 Evolving humanity's data reasoning
6:39 Approach to building Chroma
8:48 How is Chroma different?
10:30 What should you build with AI?
19:10 Upcoming AI breakthroughs
23:52 How do you think?
25:57 Uncommon Chroma insights
29:00 Current life philosophy
Published 01/21/24