Relentless

Ti Morse
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Interviewing the greats.

  1. Jul 1

    Manufacturing 1,000s of Nuclear Reactors | Isaiah Taylor, Valar Atomics

    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 problem 2:58 Scaling from 1 reactor to 10 4:31 Why it’s so tempting to iterate on paper instead of actually building reactors 7:37 Having contact with reality - modular shielding 10:09 Steel is cheaper than software engineers 11:09 Why the idiot index is so high in nuclear 16:02 Becoming a nuclear company 18:57 It's important not to lie to yourself 21:55 Obsessing over critical path  24:54 Nuclear reactors are relatively simple 30:35 Safety is a function of iteration speed 30:55 Why Valar had to vertically integrate 35:01 Designing a Toyota Camry vs a Ferrari  38:07 Running through 1-way doors 41:13 Pulling rabbits out of a hat 46:13 Wartime mode 48:49 Being willing to do unreasonable things 51:20 How Elon injects urgency into his companies 56:56 Relentlessly chasing the goal of making energy 10x cheaper 58:32 What’s changed over the last 3yrs 1:00:51 Designing safe nuclear reactors 1:13:05 Learning from SpaceX - optimizing for scale 1:18:07 Having a high tolerance for looking dumb 1:19:50 How Palmer Luckey handles hit pieces 1:20:55 Inevitable time 1:25:26 Predicting unknown bottlenecks 1:28:08 Scaling 1:29:45 July 4th will be a rebirth for nuclear in the United States

    1h 32m

  2. May 26

    Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy — Ryan Petersen

    Ryan Petersen is the Founder and CEO of Flexport. Timestamps: 0:03 Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy 2:29 The explosion in tariff fraud  8:58 The Dutch East India Company 11:20 History of global trade 14:39 1,000x spice markup 17:53 The British East India Company 24:02 How the British got 20% of China addicted to opium 27:44 The Forbes family & opium trade 30:40 Jewish trading networks 37:33 It’s illegal to criticize the King of Thailand 38:58 Strait of Hormuz 45:58 Maritime chokepoints

    53 min

  3. May 23

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

    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.

    1h 3m

  4. May 19

    The Manufacturing Startup That's Outcompeting China | Jim Belosic, SendCutSend | Round II

    Jim Belosic is the founder and CEO of SendCutSend.

    1h 2m

  5. May 5

    How to Start a Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey

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

    1h 5m

  6. Apr 16

    Why Elon Outcompetes Everyone | Eric Jorgenson

    Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Book of Elon.

    1h 29m

  7. Mar 23

    How Brian Armstrong Built Coinbase

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

    1h 54m

  8. Mar 16

    Peter Beck — We're scaling Electron faster than SpaceX scaled Falcon 9

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

    1h 5m
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Interviewing the greats.

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  • Creator
    Ti Morse
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    90
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Ti Morse
  • Show Website
    Relentless

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