Will O'Brien

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The a16z Show · Three Startups Reinventing Critical Infrastructure · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

At least, you know, we're looking at opening

a facility next year or beginning to kind of like break ground on it next year, that facility alone would, you know, two to three X like international supply of autonomous underwater vehicles.

And, you know, obviously all of that will be built in the United States.

So, you know, undersea dominance is definitely within reach for the US versus China.

Yeah, I think it's definitely a good idea.

I think the intellectual merit of the idea is great.

I think like, yeah, like Thiel kind of speaks about this, you know, the sovereign individual is probably one of the first books that really kind of coined, I think, a lot of these ideas back in the 90s.

But yeah, in a world that is like increasingly regulated and burdened and shackled, you know, man desires for the freedom and therefore he can go to sea and build these, you know, kind of habitations out there and be free.

you know doesn't have to worry about regulation or red tape it could be a great place to do some interesting things in biotech and longevity and other kind of forms of experimentation where people want to they want to voluntarily like take maybe treatments or something like that but the government here won't let them so I think there's like a lot of merit and a lot of that and also like just the sheer kind of mass if you know if we're

if we're to get the most out of the ocean and the resources that it provides to us and also to bring some kind of order to it being a very disordered place.

I think we do need to put habitations out there.

Like more of the important work is going to be done by robots in the future out there.

But I think we will want to have humans out there and I think you could build some really nice settlements out there.

But I think, so I think the idea of sea setting has its merit

But I think what was wrong, what they didn't have at the time, were the tools and technology to build it.

It was a good idea, but it was too early because the technological enablers weren't doing it.

So what do you need if you want to build out at sea?

Okay, you definitely want internet.

Starlink changes the game.

For the first time ever, you can actually have a habitation out there that can be connected to the rest of the world through something like Starlink.

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