Doug Bernauer

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511 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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The a16z Show · How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery · 31 Mar 2026 podcast

And it was awesome because we did really well.

We got lucky a lot of times, but we made a rocket that flew and landed on legs.

And then I did all the weird Elon side projects and ideas.

So Hyperloop, when he got really serious, I got tapped into that and into The Boring Company.

and then Mars colony design.

And in doing the Mars colony design, I was looking at how do you take Starship there, make fuel from what's on Mars, make fuel from the ice that's there.

And if you do that, you need megawatts of power.

And I was trying to do it with solar and getting totally stuck and showing Elon these plans that were like four miracles we need on a single mission.

And it was just ridiculous.

And so Elon was like, you probably should look at nuclear.

And that's really the jumping off point, right?

I started to learn.

And then three years later, I left.

I founded Radiant and left to go run it.

And really trying to make mass-producible, portable micro-reactors.

Not for space, but currently we're focused on a trailer-sized thing.

But also needed in space.

Right, yeah.

So I do eventually want to do products for space, but we've got to have customers.

We've got to have funds that are actually there.

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