Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

Like if investors hadn't bet on us, we wouldn't be anywhere.

And a number of excellent investors, I'm super grateful, did bet on us.

Now, those people are good investors because they bet on the right things.

And so I like to think we've executed well with that capital.

If we had gone and burned the first $85 million, we wouldn't have gotten the next X and X and X.

But yeah, I mean, I'm super grateful.

Bedrock, Jeff Lewis bet.

Sequoia bet super early and then Coastal bet very early.

And then since then, we've been super fortunate to bring on more firms and sort of expand that circle.

People bet too, right?

Like anyone who joins a company and puts their career on the line to do that is making a massive bet.

And look, I think anyone who works at a company like Mach is not doing it because it's a job like betting on a job is one thing when someone can find a new job.

But like you're asking someone to pick up like this is my mission for the next two decades.

Like when I'm sitting down to rest 20 years from today, hanging out with family and thinking back about my life like this is this is when I did the best work I've ever done.

And so you're asking folks to make that bet.

I'm super grateful that many, many excellent people have made that bet on the headline piece.

Look, I think

I think it is my job to have a good understanding of where things will go.

And so I haven't been massively surprised by how important drones have become, unfortunately, about like the state of the world and how much conflict there is.

Like that is why I started the company is because I do think we're going into this time of great power competition and with that more instability in the world.

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