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First interview with Mike Grace, Co-Founder & CEO of Longshot (Longshot) Space cannons, getting to Mach 25, history of German weapons. 0:27 Jules Verne 4:01 History of massive German weapons 7:55 Gerald Bull - Project HARP 11:01 Why isn’t Elon working on space guns 15:14 Cost of a kg...

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ProfitsOverWages 🧼🇩🇴

88,738 views • 1 year ago

My first interview with Cameron Schiller (Cameron Schiller) co-founder & CEO of Rangeview 0:27 History of casting 2:01 Finding the American Dream in China 3:26 Never listen to McKinsey 7:26 Building America’s first Cyber Foundry 8:25 Manufacturing things in China as a kid 11:57 Made in China Initiative 14:28 Growing up doing robotics 20:53 Building factories 27:47 Manufacturing vs assembly 32:56 Charging bird scooters to fund his first business 39:55 Manufacturing is not fintech 47:18 SpaceX had to build their own foundry 50:55 Robotics competitions in China 53:13 New facility 59:30 Engineering emotions & beautiful spaces 1:02:25 Understanding a society through their cars 1:06:13 Why the GTI is an amazing car 1:09:27 Dropping out of college
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My first interview with Cameron Schiller (Cameron Schiller) co-founder & CEO of Rangeview 0:27 History of casting 2:01 Finding the American Dream in China 3:26 Never listen to McKinsey 7:26 Building America’s first Cyber Foundry 8:25 Manufacturing things in China as a kid 11:57 Made in China Initiative 14:28 Growing up doing robotics 20:53 Building factories 27:47 Manufacturing vs assembly 32:56 Charging bird scooters to fund his first business 39:55 Manufacturing is not fintech 47:18 SpaceX had to build their own foundry 50:55 Robotics competitions in China 53:13 New facility 59:30 Engineering emotions & beautiful spaces 1:02:25 Understanding a society through their cars 1:06:13 Why the GTI is an amazing car 1:09:27 Dropping out of college

Ti Morse

48,354 views • 11 months ago

Is time an illusion? I sat down with physicist Julian Barbour to explore his radical theory: time is just how we interpret changing shapes. He explains why the universe might actually be increasing in order, challenging the second law of thermodynamics. Link in comments below. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 02:12 - Working Outside of Academia 03:53 - Space, Time, Dimension 10:40 - Mach’s Principle 21:33 - Mach Confused Einstein 24:22 - Two Particle Universe 31:46 - Carlo Rovelli 35:02 - Julian’s Ontology 43:37 - Julian’s Theory ‘Shape Statistics’ 51:11 - Leinbiz’s Philosophical Writings 56:14 - Expansion of the Universe (Scale Invariance) 01:05:02 - Cosmological Principle 01:15:34 - Thermodynamics 01:17:15 - Entropy and Complexity 01:30:40 - Wave Function / Double Slit Experiment 01:39:21 - God 01:44:48 - The Role of Instruments 01:47:44 - Etymology of Pattern and Matter 01:51:25 - Join My Substack!
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Is time an illusion? I sat down with physicist Julian Barbour to explore his radical theory: time is just how we interpret changing shapes. He explains why the universe might actually be increasing in order, challenging the second law of thermodynamics. Link in comments below. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 02:12 - Working Outside of Academia 03:53 - Space, Time, Dimension 10:40 - Mach’s Principle 21:33 - Mach Confused Einstein 24:22 - Two Particle Universe 31:46 - Carlo Rovelli 35:02 - Julian’s Ontology 43:37 - Julian’s Theory ‘Shape Statistics’ 51:11 - Leinbiz’s Philosophical Writings 56:14 - Expansion of the Universe (Scale Invariance) 01:05:02 - Cosmological Principle 01:15:34 - Thermodynamics 01:17:15 - Entropy and Complexity 01:30:40 - Wave Function / Double Slit Experiment 01:39:21 - God 01:44:48 - The Role of Instruments 01:47:44 - Etymology of Pattern and Matter 01:51:25 - Join My Substack!

Curt Jaimungal

16,403 views • 1 year ago

We sat down with Philip Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, at MIT to discuss why the future of data centers might be in space. After graduating Y Combinator less than 2 years ago, Starcloud just raised an impressive $170M Series A at a $1.1B valuation led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures & Growth. The conversation covers everything from solar physics and cooling systems to GPU economics, radiation hardening, launch costs, and satellite design. Philip also shares what it takes to build a unicorn deeptech startup. We discuss his experience with YC, the skepticism around their demoday launch, and the crazy last minute race to get Starcloud’s first satellite onboard their scheduled Falcon flight. Full episode is here on X and at any of the links below (see comment). Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:12 - What is Starcloud? 02:44 - Why do data centers need to go to space? 06:15 - Can’t we just build more solar panels on earth? 11:10 - Economic analysis of Starcloud 19:56 - How does Starcloud’s cooling work? 28:26 - Training an LLM in space 32:07 - Addressing critics on space Twitter 34:23 - Is Starcloud overfunded? 35:59 - Will demand for data centers keep going up? 38:11 - GPU lifespan and disposal in space 39:47 - Bus structures 41:43 - Starcloud’s origin and founders 49:29 - Fundraising, Competition, and Meeting Expectations 53:29 - Satellite size and collisions 56:29 - Manufacturing Bottlenecks 1:00:20 - Starcloud 1 tests 1:01:57 - Acceleration after YC 1:03:43 - Testing on Earth 1:05:06 - Motivations for Starcloud 1:06:45 - Data centers on the Moon 1:08:12 - Interacting with AI companies 1:08:18 - What’s next for Starcloud? 1:14:01 - Other uses for Starcloud satellites 1:17:56 - Lunar hotels and space elevators 1:24:28 - Complementary business ideas to Starcloud 1:29:51 - Philip’s competitive twin 1:32:18 - Philip and Mike’s thoughts on YC 1:36:04 - Advice for young entrepreneurs Elon Musk Scott Manley Kyle Hill Hank Green
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We sat down with Philip Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, at MIT to discuss why the future of data centers might be in space. After graduating Y Combinator less than 2 years ago, Starcloud just raised an impressive $170M Series A at a $1.1B valuation led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures & Growth. The conversation covers everything from solar physics and cooling systems to GPU economics, radiation hardening, launch costs, and satellite design. Philip also shares what it takes to build a unicorn deeptech startup. We discuss his experience with YC, the skepticism around their demoday launch, and the crazy last minute race to get Starcloud’s first satellite onboard their scheduled Falcon flight. Full episode is here on X and at any of the links below (see comment). Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:12 - What is Starcloud? 02:44 - Why do data centers need to go to space? 06:15 - Can’t we just build more solar panels on earth? 11:10 - Economic analysis of Starcloud 19:56 - How does Starcloud’s cooling work? 28:26 - Training an LLM in space 32:07 - Addressing critics on space Twitter 34:23 - Is Starcloud overfunded? 35:59 - Will demand for data centers keep going up? 38:11 - GPU lifespan and disposal in space 39:47 - Bus structures 41:43 - Starcloud’s origin and founders 49:29 - Fundraising, Competition, and Meeting Expectations 53:29 - Satellite size and collisions 56:29 - Manufacturing Bottlenecks 1:00:20 - Starcloud 1 tests 1:01:57 - Acceleration after YC 1:03:43 - Testing on Earth 1:05:06 - Motivations for Starcloud 1:06:45 - Data centers on the Moon 1:08:12 - Interacting with AI companies 1:08:18 - What’s next for Starcloud? 1:14:01 - Other uses for Starcloud satellites 1:17:56 - Lunar hotels and space elevators 1:24:28 - Complementary business ideas to Starcloud 1:29:51 - Philip’s competitive twin 1:32:18 - Philip and Mike’s thoughts on YC 1:36:04 - Advice for young entrepreneurs Elon Musk Scott Manley Kyle Hill Hank Green

632nm

46,599 views • 3 months ago