Scott Nolan
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Thank you.
Yeah.
Yeah, the quick version is, if you've seen Dune, if you've seen Dune 2, you know that the Thumper calls in the Worm.
And the Worm is what makes the Spice.
And in that movie, in that society, the Spice powers all these different things, like space travel.
So it's this really, really important element, basically.
And House Atreides is sent to this planet to go mine it, to continue progress of their civilization.
There's probably been a bunch.
Direct impact on me, it's gonna be hard to not say Elon.
So founders, you know, first I worked for Elon at SpaceX, did a few other things and then joined Founders Fund and Founders Fund invested in SpaceX, invested in Neuralink, invested in Boring Company.
And so I think just looking at the SpaceX example, yes, I worked there early on, but some of the impact that they had much later
on me was through the Starlink network.
So just the concept of having internet comms, internet coming from space, from a space constellation, is something that seemed like sci-fi one or two decades ago, and now it's real.
So I'm a customer, directly impacted me, Founders Fund investment.
So that's perfect to go with.
There's a follow-on question.
I think the driven individual with less capital wins.
I think we are now.
That's the good news.
So I think for many decades, we did not.