Scott Nolan

that had a path for bringing the cost down and bringing production up and regrettably couldn't find one and said, okay, what would it take to getting back to your question of how did this all start?

Just ask, what would it take to start a company?

to go do this and it was, you are going to need financial backing to your question of who would win.

A really dedicated, passionate founder without much capital or someone with capital, a lot of capital.

Capital is important for this.

I'd say, why not have both?

And so you need the capital.

You need a great founding team.

Ideally, the team would have both people from the nuclear industry.

That's mandatory.

You need the best people plucked out of the nuclear industry who are scattered everywhere.

That's part one.

But part two is you need people from Silicon Valley, the tech industry, the hardware industry.

And this was actually the formula that Andrel used, that Palantir used, even SpaceX used.

And then part three is you need a team that can get security clearances and is highly passionate about this problem and has worked on things before with the government.

Zooming out, I realized, wait, that's us.

We need to incubate a company.

We need to, you know, pull together the team.

And then it felt like I was the right person to run it.

And so that's how we got started.