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Dino Mavrookas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1458 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

vib was from andoril so he was employ andoril has i don't know who knows now 5 000 employees he was employee 22 or 23 he ran software computer vision sensor fusion across their product lines so i was talking with alex moore who's one of the partners at avc who helped start the business he's on our board And we had, I'll get into Rob's background. So it was me, Doug and Rob.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

vib was from andoril so he was employ andoril has i don't know who knows now 5 000 employees he was employee 22 or 23 he ran software computer vision sensor fusion across their product lines so i was talking with alex moore who's one of the partners at avc who helped start the business he's on our board And we had, I'll get into Rob's background. So it was me, Doug and Rob.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

vib was from andoril so he was employ andoril has i don't know who knows now 5 000 employees he was employee 22 or 23 he ran software computer vision sensor fusion across their product lines so i was talking with alex moore who's one of the partners at avc who helped start the business he's on our board And we had, I'll get into Rob's background. So it was me, Doug and Rob.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

We need a software guy, but we don't just need a, we need like the software guy, like an absolute killer. We need the best software person on the planet. And we're just talking and I'm just going off on where I'm going to go, like how we're going to find this person. And he goes, oh, I got the guy. And I'm like, okay.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

We need a software guy, but we don't just need a, we need like the software guy, like an absolute killer. We need the best software person on the planet. And we're just talking and I'm just going off on where I'm going to go, like how we're going to find this person. And he goes, oh, I got the guy. And I'm like, okay.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

We need a software guy, but we don't just need a, we need like the software guy, like an absolute killer. We need the best software person on the planet. And we're just talking and I'm just going off on where I'm going to go, like how we're going to find this person. And he goes, oh, I got the guy. And I'm like, okay.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

like yeah okay and he introduced me to vib bib flies out to austin we spend the weekend together introduce him to other co-founders universally has like this guy's brilliant brilliant phenomenal software engineer able to art like able to make me understand the technology. That's a very special skill set for an engineer to be able to articulate, talk to customers, build things, manage team.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

like yeah okay and he introduced me to vib bib flies out to austin we spend the weekend together introduce him to other co-founders universally has like this guy's brilliant brilliant phenomenal software engineer able to art like able to make me understand the technology. That's a very special skill set for an engineer to be able to articulate, talk to customers, build things, manage team.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

like yeah okay and he introduced me to vib bib flies out to austin we spend the weekend together introduce him to other co-founders universally has like this guy's brilliant brilliant phenomenal software engineer able to art like able to make me understand the technology. That's a very special skill set for an engineer to be able to articulate, talk to customers, build things, manage team.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

This is a guy. And we knew just like that. Rob, this is going to be a crazy coincidence. I met Rob on a hunting trip with some folks from AVC. So we're hunting in South Dakota. We're shooting pheasants in South Dakota. One of our good friends from Austin puts on this hunting trip, invited some folks from ABC, invited me, invited Rob, who he knows for a really long time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

This is a guy. And we knew just like that. Rob, this is going to be a crazy coincidence. I met Rob on a hunting trip with some folks from AVC. So we're hunting in South Dakota. We're shooting pheasants in South Dakota. One of our good friends from Austin puts on this hunting trip, invited some folks from ABC, invited me, invited Rob, who he knows for a really long time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

This is a guy. And we knew just like that. Rob, this is going to be a crazy coincidence. I met Rob on a hunting trip with some folks from AVC. So we're hunting in South Dakota. We're shooting pheasants in South Dakota. One of our good friends from Austin puts on this hunting trip, invited some folks from ABC, invited me, invited Rob, who he knows for a really long time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

And so we're all together in South Dakota randomly. And Rob and I, former Marine, he was in the Marines for five years and then finished out his career as a reservist. So Marine, former Marine, former Navy, like we're talking or having beers, whatever. And then six months later, he actually ran his own consulting company, which helps small businesses contract with government.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

And so we're all together in South Dakota randomly. And Rob and I, former Marine, he was in the Marines for five years and then finished out his career as a reservist. So Marine, former Marine, former Navy, like we're talking or having beers, whatever. And then six months later, he actually ran his own consulting company, which helps small businesses contract with government.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

And so we're all together in South Dakota randomly. And Rob and I, former Marine, he was in the Marines for five years and then finished out his career as a reservist. So Marine, former Marine, former Navy, like we're talking or having beers, whatever. And then six months later, he actually ran his own consulting company, which helps small businesses contract with government.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

He has this phenomenal background where he worked at large prime, was a registered lobbyist. You can talk about like how we understood how to lobby, how we understood how to navigate the hill, how we understood how to navigate the government ecosystem, Rob. Rob lived it for 25 years, right? Here's the piece that gets left out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

He has this phenomenal background where he worked at large prime, was a registered lobbyist. You can talk about like how we understood how to lobby, how we understood how to navigate the hill, how we understood how to navigate the government ecosystem, Rob. Rob lived it for 25 years, right? Here's the piece that gets left out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

He has this phenomenal background where he worked at large prime, was a registered lobbyist. You can talk about like how we understood how to lobby, how we understood how to navigate the hill, how we understood how to navigate the government ecosystem, Rob. Rob lived it for 25 years, right? Here's the piece that gets left out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

And then it's like these little intangible things as what makes Saronic so special. Rob's uncle was the secretary of the Navy for six years. John Lehman in the 1980s under Reagan. Now, and John's an advisor to us now. It's not saying like, hey, his uncle's why we're successful. But here's a person that I met on a hunting trip.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#205 Dino Mavrookas - Fmr. Navy SEAL (DEVGRU) / CEO of Saronic Technologies

And then it's like these little intangible things as what makes Saronic so special. Rob's uncle was the secretary of the Navy for six years. John Lehman in the 1980s under Reagan. Now, and John's an advisor to us now. It's not saying like, hey, his uncle's why we're successful. But here's a person that I met on a hunting trip.