Isaiah Taylor

but I thought nuclear was like sort of covered.

Like I thought people generally had it in hand because I would read these books about the history of nuclear and there's hundreds of different designs of reactors and they're all super sophisticated, super genius designs.

And there's a million smart people in the field.

And so I kind of had the mentality that like they've got it under control, they don't need me, right?

And so that was my mentality, it was more of a hobby.

But when I got to middle school, I started looking for who is the Elon of nuclear, right?

What's the Tesla or the SpaceX or the Ford or the Apple of nuclear?

Like who has really taken this thing and created a trillion dollar company around it?

And the answer to that question is no one.

In middle school.

That's right.

I mean, I was obsessed with Elon way back in the early days before Tesla, actually, back when they were launching Falcon 1 for the first time.

And I was sort of like, who's doing this in nuclear?

And again, the answer was like nobody.

And that really surprised me.

And I started reading, I'd always read about the physics and I'd read every physics textbook I could find, that sort of thing.

But when I got to this, I was like, well, what does the business landscape look like?

Like who's figured out how to make money from this?

And I found that nobody had, like nobody had been able to build a huge business that was extremely successful and was scaling all over the world to build nuclear power.

That kind of stopped me in my tracks.