Alex Wilhelm

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67,402 appearances 274 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 19 Aug

Alex Wilhelm’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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This Week in Startups · This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295 · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

That's a lot better. voice-verified

Even if you're doing even if you're doing dirty charging, as you might call it, it's still much more efficient. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

Now I know that you guys say on the site that the current Ag drone starts at, if memory serves, 550,000. voice-verified

Um, as far as farm equipment goes, that's not super crazy, but it's also not that cheap. voice-verified

So I'm curious about the the uh ROI here and kind of like time to repay the purchase because the way that I think about it, more efficient flight, uh probably need voice-verified

Need fewer human pilots because it's autonomous and you're using electricity and blah blah blah. voice-verified

So I presume there's some savings baked into this. voice-verified

What is the time to? voice-verified

uh recovery for people that are changing over to this type of ag work. voice-verified

How comfortable would that make you as the guy who has to take the phone call if it goes down while it's working 24 hours a day? voice-verified

Because that sounds like a maintenance nightmare, but maybe I'm overestimating. voice-verified

In time, are we gonna see like uh smaller farmers be able to like do rideshare equivalent of rental for these things to to handle their crops? voice-verified

Cause I I don't think everyone's gonna need their own. voice-verified

acronym out of that. voice-verified

We could call it SAS. voice-verified

No one's ever used that before. voice-verified

And right now, I mean, as you and I record this, the straight of hormone is still totally blocked off. voice-verified

And I presume that by time this comes out, it'll still be blocked, which is killing fertilizer prices around the world. voice-verified

So people are probably extra price conscious right now about these chemicals they're spraying over the crops. voice-verified

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