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S3

S3

Jason Carman
Business

Weekly interviews with the innovators of our time I record directly after filming our weekly documentary episode.

29 - The Economics of Supersonic Flight | Interview with Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl
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  • 29 - The Economics of Supersonic Flight | Interview with Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl

    Sitdown interview with Blake Scholl 3 days after filming Boom Supersonic's 3rd flight test.

    Fri, 27 Sep 2024 - 51min
  • 28 - Reimagining The Future of Water Transport & Shipping | Interview with Valo Team

    Interview with the @ridevalo team where we go in depth on hydrofoiling, reimagining mass transport logistics, and being a great team member at a deep tech startup.

    Mon, 16 Sep 2024 - 1h 10min
  • 27 - Chasing Immortality with Humanoid Robots | Eric Jang, S3 Episode 54

    While filming with Neo in my apartment I sat down with VP of AI @ericjang11 to learn about 1X's approach to robot intelligence and his his curiosity around immortality.


    0:00 Intro

    1:27 1X Overview

    2:12 Eric's Origin

    5:15 Why humanoids?

    11:30 Supercomputers & deep learning

    12:45 World models

    14:21 Neuromorphic computing

    14:40 Immortality

    20:15 Robotics at Google

    21:35 Skepticism of humanoids

    27: 00 Joining 1X

    31:20 Benefits of LLMs

    33:50 Training models

    35:30 Tele-op to autonomous 

    43:30 Data quality vs. quantity

    47:00 How to train your robot

    50:50 Data sponge

    53:30 The 1X team

    54:45 Safety

    57:45 A lab in the cloud

    59:26 Bio advancements

    1:03:54 How does your brain work

    1:06:14 Conway’s law

    1:08:45 Eric’s favorite sci-fi

    1:10:50 Life philosophy

    Wed, 11 Sep 2024 - 1h 12min
  • 26 - Episode 53: We'll Build 100,000 Humanoids by 2027 | Bernt Bornich

    After filming our S3 with 1X (https://youtu.be/2ccPTpDq05A) I sat down with Founder &CEO Bernt Bornich to go deeper on 1X's truly ambitious manufacturing plans. If you'd like to support our work, and look like a million bucks, you can buy our first ever S3 Episode Tee here for 7 days only: https://saturdaystartupstories.myshopify.com/products/s3-episode-53-tee-1x-technologies 0:00 Intro 1:16 Why humanoids? 5:40 AI transfer of knowledge 8:40 Power of scale 9:50 Heritage of Eve 11:50 Tendron drives 18:35 Letting robots experiment 22:00 Designing for safety 25:07 Intelligence diversity 27:45 Moravec’s paradox 32:50 Difficulty of reasoning 35:40 Training models & data 40:40 Humanoid ecosystem 42:50 You can’t retrofit cost 46:30 10x every year 56:30 Hire for who you are 57:50 Be nice 1:00:00 Trust your intuition 1:05:50 2040 1:07:50 Bernt’s favorite Sci-Fi 1:09:09 Individualism 1:12:00 Life philosophy

    Sun, 01 Sep 2024 - 1h 13min
  • 25 - How to Raise $750M & Build a Space Company | John Gedmark

    Astranis just announced a new round of funding, led by A16z, to build more satellites! I sat down with John Gedmark, CEO of Astranis, to talk about how they'll use this $200M of capital and the future of building in America and space 🇺🇸🛰️🛰️


    0:00 I used to work here 1:02 Mission of Astranis 3:54 GEO? (Sci-fi) 8:43 Childhood to college 14:30 Silicon Valley for space? 19:14 Founding Commercial Spaceflight Federation 22:07 Why GEO is hard 24:42 Meeting Ryan, CTO 28:18 COVID story 32:40 Early days 35:53 How to raise $750M 47:08 Astranis + US Government 51:15 Manufacturing learnings 53:40 US vs China 58:16 War in space 1:01:18 Astranis longterm vision 1:03:58 Why? 1:05:28 Current life philosophy 1:06:20 1 year of S3

    Thu, 25 Jul 2024 - 1h 07min
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