John Collison

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6,048 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 5 Feb

John Collison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Oct 2025 with 5.

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Cheeky Pint · Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea · 28 Oct 2025 podcast

Can you summarize the Henry Kaiser ove for people and maybe explain why he's so understudied? voice-verified

four day Liberty ship that was a propaganda exercise, but still they built a ship in four days. voice-verified

Like it was pretty effective propaganda. voice-verified

The voice-verified

He effectively built the town of Richmond, California. voice-verified

fall apart, it's voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

There's an Elon like aspect to his character where so he started as a uh a roads general contractor, like he built roads. voice-verified

And then he's two voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

So he was the guy you called to uh to build a road. voice-verified

And then he just kept he seemed to keep jumping to new technical challenges, all of them with the attitude that, uh, it's not that hard, it's only physics, you know, we can learn it. voice-verified

And so, you know, the dam, it's like, well, that's just like a big construction project. voice-verified

I've done construction projects before, how hard can it be? voice-verified

He'd done a lot of dams by that point. voice-verified

of Italy, which was an American bank that became Bank of America. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And again there was this first principles thing where, you know, getting into shipbuilding, getting into cars, getting into planes, what is a plane but just a car that flies? voice-verified

Just a willingness to jump into new industries that again I associate more with hardware entrepreneurs than than software entrepreneurs. voice-verified

Maybe it's something to do with the hardware space, like there's more opportunities for for new startups. voice-verified

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