Dino Mavrookas

But to give you a sense of kind of the problem that we're facing, imagine that Cuba was critical to the world's economy, like critical to the world's economy, and the Chinese wanted to stop us from invading Cuba. hard problem. Cuba's 80 miles off the coast. Taiwan's 80 miles off the coast of China. It's on the other side of the world for us.

But to give you a sense of kind of the problem that we're facing, imagine that Cuba was critical to the world's economy, like critical to the world's economy, and the Chinese wanted to stop us from invading Cuba. hard problem. Cuba's 80 miles off the coast. Taiwan's 80 miles off the coast of China. It's on the other side of the world for us.

So you really have to have deterrence in place to make sure that they're not projecting what they view right and what they view the world should look like. And the world that the Chinese government projects and the CCP projects, we don't want to live in that world. Right, that's not a good world. A world where the US is not the predominant superpower, it's actually a really, really scary place.

So you really have to have deterrence in place to make sure that they're not projecting what they view right and what they view the world should look like. And the world that the Chinese government projects and the CCP projects, we don't want to live in that world. Right, that's not a good world. A world where the US is not the predominant superpower, it's actually a really, really scary place.

So you really have to have deterrence in place to make sure that they're not projecting what they view right and what they view the world should look like. And the world that the Chinese government projects and the CCP projects, we don't want to live in that world. Right, that's not a good world. A world where the US is not the predominant superpower, it's actually a really, really scary place.

So we have to make sure that we're able to deter or defeat the Chinese in the South Pacific, if it ever comes to that.

So we have to make sure that we're able to deter or defeat the Chinese in the South Pacific, if it ever comes to that.

So we have to make sure that we're able to deter or defeat the Chinese in the South Pacific, if it ever comes to that.

That's how you eat an elephant. You eat an elephant one bite at a time. So we have the capital. The next thing was founding team. Who's going to actually build this thing. And when you talk about how that actually came together, Again, there's something very special happening here that's outside of any one individual's control.

That's how you eat an elephant. You eat an elephant one bite at a time. So we have the capital. The next thing was founding team. Who's going to actually build this thing. And when you talk about how that actually came together, Again, there's something very special happening here that's outside of any one individual's control.

That's how you eat an elephant. You eat an elephant one bite at a time. So we have the capital. The next thing was founding team. Who's going to actually build this thing. And when you talk about how that actually came together, Again, there's something very special happening here that's outside of any one individual's control.

So three co-founders, Doug Lambert, who's our chief operating officer, Vibh Altikar, who's our chief technology officer, and then Rob Lehman, who's our chief commercial officer. What are their backgrounds? Doug was the head of engineering at a company called Liquid Robotics. which was a maritime autonomy company. That company sold to Boeing in 2017. He's been in maritime autonomy for 15 years.

So three co-founders, Doug Lambert, who's our chief operating officer, Vibh Altikar, who's our chief technology officer, and then Rob Lehman, who's our chief commercial officer. What are their backgrounds? Doug was the head of engineering at a company called Liquid Robotics. which was a maritime autonomy company. That company sold to Boeing in 2017. He's been in maritime autonomy for 15 years.

So three co-founders, Doug Lambert, who's our chief operating officer, Vibh Altikar, who's our chief technology officer, and then Rob Lehman, who's our chief commercial officer. What are their backgrounds? Doug was the head of engineering at a company called Liquid Robotics. which was a maritime autonomy company. That company sold to Boeing in 2017. He's been in maritime autonomy for 15 years.

He got recruited away from Liquid Robotics to start building an autonomous submarine in Austin, Texas. What are the odds of that? And he left that role two weeks before? We were like getting ready to start Seronic. And so I got introduced to him in Austin, wheeling up, we're like, I'm like, I want to go build this. He's like, that sounds awesome. We worked together on it for a few months.

He got recruited away from Liquid Robotics to start building an autonomous submarine in Austin, Texas. What are the odds of that? And he left that role two weeks before? We were like getting ready to start Seronic. And so I got introduced to him in Austin, wheeling up, we're like, I'm like, I want to go build this. He's like, that sounds awesome. We worked together on it for a few months.

He got recruited away from Liquid Robotics to start building an autonomous submarine in Austin, Texas. What are the odds of that? And he left that role two weeks before? We were like getting ready to start Seronic. And so I got introduced to him in Austin, wheeling up, we're like, I'm like, I want to go build this. He's like, that sounds awesome. We worked together on it for a few months.

He's like, we got along really well, you know, along with the other two who I'll go into in a minute. And he's like, yeah, we're like, let's go do this together. But what are the chances that somebody with 20 years of experience in maritime autonomy is sitting in Austin? Not high.

He's like, we got along really well, you know, along with the other two who I'll go into in a minute. And he's like, yeah, we're like, let's go do this together. But what are the chances that somebody with 20 years of experience in maritime autonomy is sitting in Austin? Not high.

He's like, we got along really well, you know, along with the other two who I'll go into in a minute. And he's like, yeah, we're like, let's go do this together. But what are the chances that somebody with 20 years of experience in maritime autonomy is sitting in Austin? Not high.