S3
Weekly interviews with the innovators of our time I record directly after filming our weekly documentary episode.
Latest episodes
Mar 18, 2024 • 44min
S³-35 Olympian Motors: Eren Canarslan on His Vision For the Future of Electric Cars
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
Mar 10, 2024 • 34min
S³-34 Picogrid: CEO Zane Mountcastle on Fixing the Military Industrial Complex
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
Mar 3, 2024 • 13min
S³-33 Electric Sheep: Nag Murty on Physically based AI & robots
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
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Feb 25, 2024 • 36min
They're Reimagining How to Build Anything | Hadrian
CEO and Cofounder of Hadrian, Chris Power, talks about the importance of a full-stack approach, Hadrian's tech stack, the software approach in manufacturing, exciting research and tech, deep tech pitfalls, building for automation, and life philosophy.
Feb 18, 2024 • 15min
Aleh Kandrashou: Building Factories for Houses
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?
Feb 11, 2024 • 28min
Augustus Doricko: Making it Rain
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?
Jan 28, 2024 • 26min
Sam D'Amico: Secretly Electrifying the Grid with Stoves
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 wrong?
22:46 How do you think?
25:03 Current life philosophy
Jan 21, 2024 • 31min
Anton Troynikov: Future of AI, Evolving Humanity's Data Reasoning, & Road to AGI
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
