Relentless

My second interview with Fil Aronshtein, co-founder of Dirac.

My second interview with Aleks Gampel, co-founder of Cuby.

My second interview with Curt Lary, founder & CEO of Hextronics.

My first interview with The Stove Guy – Sam D'Amico, founder & CEO of Impulse Labs.Since 2021, Sam has been on a mission to invent the world's most powerful stove.After many prototypes, and somehow not setting a single stove on fire, Impulse is finally starting to ship their first few units.

Picogrid builds technology to integrate military assets. Over the last 15 months, Picogrid scaled to support U.S. and allied operations on four continents, delivering the data and hardware backbone for the next generation of autonomous defense systems.

My second interview with Isaiah Taylor, founder of Valar Atomics.Valar Atomics wants to make the world's energy with mass-manufactured nuclear reactors.They just built their thermal prototype in record time, from first hire to operations in only 10 months. Now, they're working on building their first fully critical nuclear reactor.

This is my second interview with Augustus Doricko, founder of Rainmaker.Over the past 15 months, the Rainmaker team has grown by more than 7x, started vertically integrating by building drones, radar systems, and other hardware in-house, and are now scaling cloud-seeding operations in multiple countries around the world.

This is my conversation with Rahul Sonwalkar, founder of Julius AIJulius is an AI data scientist loved by millions of users.Timestamps:0:33 Building his own email service 3:03 Trying to build a social network 4:01 Launching Podcast comments dot com 7:16 Unambitious people & founding Waterview10:49 Bill Gates & Napoleon 13:42 Truck tracking startup 17:09 Sam Walton 20:00 Early versions of Julius 27:59 Why startups die33:21 Growing from 5k to 500k users35:22 Everyone answers support tickets 38:22 Hiring for high-slope 40:22 Asking for what you want

This is my conversation with Will O'Brien, co-founder of Ulysses.Ulysses is building autonomous underwater drones to restore seagrass ecosystems and automate other critical tasks in the ocean.

Neurode is developing a headband that improves ADHD symptoms without the use of drugs. Follow Nathalie on X: https://x.com/nathaliegou Follow Ti on X: https://x.com/ti_morse Timestamps: 0:30 What Is Neurode 2:39 ADHD 7:23 Interest In Neuroscience 9:20 How Nat & Damian Met 11:53 First Builds 13:12 Why Nat Didn't Immediately Start A Company 14:25 Inception Of Neurode 18:25 First Iterations 19:55 When It Became A Company 25:35 First Tests 27:40 Process Of Iteration 30:20 Building A Company In Sydney 33:10 Future Applications Of Neurode 34:35 Co-Founders 36:31 Hiring 39:30 Upcoming Milestones 41:30 Fundraising Challenges 51:30 Helping Other Founders 53:48 Hardest Thing She's Overcome 58:20 Optimistic Nihilism 1:00:30 Curiosity

My conversation with Cat Orman co-founder of Flyby Robotics Flyby is building a versatile machine-learning drone platform used across consumer, industrial, and military applications. Follow Cat on X: https://x.com/catorman1 Follow Ti on X: https://x.com/ti_morse

Christian is helping connect the world using high-orbit satellites at Astranis while creating a hardtech startup playbook with his podcast First Principles. Timestamps: 0:40 Pronounced Kyle  3:42 Christian's Parents 6:36 Religion  8:56 Science Fiction & Anti Memes 11:28 Sports & Debate 17:54 University Of Michigan 21:10 Target & Deloitte 28:36 Why He Left Consulting 32:01 Business School 35:24 Logo & Design Businesses 38:42 His First Startup: Drect 50:29 Joining Astranis 56:17 How Astranis Finds Great People 1:05:31 Working At The Chaos Stage Of A Startup 1:07:02 Creating The Hardware Startup Playbook 1:14:51 First Principles 1:21:58 Hardest Thing He's Overcome

Follow me on X: https://x.com/ti_morse Follow Aleksandr on X: https://x.com/AGampel1

Follow Chris on X: https://twitter.com/2112Power Follow me on X: https://twitter.com/ti_morse

My X: https://x.com/ti_morse Curt's X: https://x.com/curt_lary

My X: x.com/ti_morse Sheel's X: x.com/pitdesi

This is my conversation with Andrew Arruda the founder of Flexpa & Ross Intelligence. Startups are like chewing glass and staring into the abyss and being a founder is being someone who likes it. My X: x.com/ti_morse Andrew's X: x.com/AndrewArruda

My X/Twitter: x.com/ti_morse Siqi's X/Twitter: x.com/blader

Follow me on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ti_morse Link to Relentless YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ti_morse Follow Jason on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasonjoyride Link to S³ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jasoncarman Timestamps: 0:43 His Dad 1:37 First Video He Created 2:31 Starwars: Storytelling, Special Effects, Visual Effects 3:46 How Steven Spielberg & George Lucas Inspired Him 5:30 Blender  7:08 Getting Paid & Creating Short Films 12:12 Creating The Most Watched NBA2K Trailer Of All Time 14:34 Ronnie2K 17:35 Leaving It All Out On The Court 24:05 Being Ronnie's Brand Manager 27:52 Joining Astranis 34:32 First Few Weeks At Astranis 38:22 S³ & Astranis 41:53 Why S³ 47:24 Raising The % Of People Changing The World 52:02 How He Chooses Which Startups To Feature 53:55 Episode Creation Process 56:16 Who Inspires Him 59:04 Companies He Wishes He Could've Done An S³ On 1:01:51 Having A Long-Term View 1:06:32 Optimizing For Timelessness 1:09:05 Becoming The Nike Of Technology 1:11:28 Why Today Is The Greatest Period In US History 1:12:39 Hardest Thing He's Overcome

Here's my conversation with Aaron Slodov the founder of Atomic Industries & Remesh I recommend listening at 1.5x Timestamps: 0:00 Growing Up In Cleveland 1:50 Leaf Currency 2:52 Creating An Internet Cafe 7:21 Menial Jobs  13:20 Programming 13:54 Studying Physics & Meaning 15:44 Highschool Years 22:44 Interning At SETI 26:03 Physics GRE 27:45 Joining Google 31:45 rd < c 33:20 Self Driving & Anthony Levandowski 39:08 PhD & Starting Remesh 42:42 Hacking Into The White House 45:24 Techstars Experience  47:27 Getting Proctor & Gamble  51:16 Leaving Remesh 55:15 Warhammer & DnD Figurines 1:00:06 Founding Atomic 1:04:08 Cofounders & Y Combinator 1:13:47 Hardest Thing He's Overcome

This is my conversation with Soren Monroe-Anderson, one of the co-founders of Neros Technologies. Neros is a drone startup based in El Segundo. Soren's X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/soren_ma Neros Technologies Website: neros.tech My X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ti_morse

This was a fascinating convo and Garrett is one of the most relentless founders I've ever met.

Here's my conversation with Isaiah Taylor the founder of Valar Atomics. Valar aims to build hundreds of nuclear reactors and use their energy to pull hydrocarbons out of thin air. Isaiah has a fascinating story and I'm excited to see what he builds over the next 15 years.

Here's my conversation with Filip Aronshtein the founder of Dirac

Augustus is one of the most relentless human beings I've ever met and I feel incredibly lucky to consider him a friend

This is my conversation with John Coogan — the founder of Soylent and Lucy. John is also the creator of an incredible YouTube channel where he creates mini-documentaries on startups, founders, and world leaders. If you would like to learn more about him you can follow him on Twitter: x.com/johncoogan or visit his YouTube channel youtube.com/@JohnCooganPlus

This is my conversation with Zane Mountcastle the founder of Picogrid

Turner Novak is the founder of Banana Capital, host of The Peel Podcast, and the author behind one of my favorite Twitter accounts. If you want to learn more about him, you can follow him on X: twitter.com/turnernovak or visit his website: bananacapital.vc