00:29:51 · Will O'Brien, John Collison
[00:29:51] S0: That's Yeah, what and it's connected then to Starlink, so we can see, and Starlink is a huge enabling technology for us. That's one part of it. That's why we go for the Surface vehicle. Another thing is, yeah, we have around 100 times more onboard compute than any other autonomous underwater vehicle. We run a full NVIDIA fifteen ninety onboard with an Intel CPU, and that's been very important to our autonomy stack because, again, if you want to do anything intelligent robotically underwater, you need to have a lot... You need to be able to sense make to a large degree. [00:30:21] S1: Okay, but basically, does the Mako, if it's doing some mapping or whatever, do you send it down with a fully built plan and program, and it's basically... It is running the full loop of sensing and deciding locally on the GPUs on the device? [00:30:36] S0: Yeah. Right now, the autonomy is relatively rudimentary. We haven't gotten into very complex kind of autonomy behaviors just yet, but not many of our tasks were recorded just yet, but yes. [00:30:48] S1: But to the extent that it is autonomous, [00:30:50] S0: it's fully locally autonomous. Yeah, exactly. It will be like, draw a polygon that's like map this area. Okay. Auto generates a lawnmower track. Mhmm. And then it'll have some, like, rudimentary, okay, well, if I see a rock, let me just, like, go above that. Or if I see, like, something else, go around it. [00:31:05] S1: Yeah. And then what applications are you having most success with with the robot right now? Like, what are you selling the robot for?
00:31:05 · John Collison, Will O'Brien, Chris Sacca
[00:31:05] S1: Yeah. And then what applications are you having most success with with the robot right now? Like, what are you selling the robot for? [00:31:14] S0: Right now, I mean, there's kind of two domains in which we've had, like, a lot of success in the last year. So nature was kind of what we did and focused on kinda first year, last year, being the second year of the business, we kind of started to look at other use cases. Last year we got our first contract with the US Navy, and we got our first contract with an offshore wind developer as well. So US Navy was actually... You know, we were doing mine countermeasures, finding mines and hunting mines before it was cool, you know, before before the Straits Of Hermes popped off. [00:31:47] S2: So we were we were [00:31:47] S0: working on some work related to that. And then the offshore... [00:31:51] S2: I haven't heard Straits Of Hermes popped off. That's pretty sweet. Way to appeal to his younger listeners.
00:31:51 · Chris Sacca, Will O'Brien, John Collison
[00:31:51] S2: I haven't heard Straits Of Hermes popped off. That's pretty sweet. Way to appeal to his younger listeners. [00:31:57] S0: And then the the offshore wind contract was, you know, where... Actually, there's this problem in California where they're trying to build a floating offshore wind where they need to... One of the objections to the floating offshore wind is that you put these power cables in the water, they attract abandoned fishing lines, the fishing lines then are what catch dolphins and whales and these sorts of things, and that's one of the biggest obstructions to offshore wind in California. And so it's like, could you build... We're building this sensing system, like a surface underwater vehicle that will map these cables on a daily basis, look at their structural integrity, and see if they're in good condition, and also if they're getting lines cut on them. If there's a line cut on them, we have a... We're building an implement that will cut the fishing lines off of the floating offshore wind lines. [00:32:42] S1: I'm sorry. Why are the offshore wind turbines getting caught up in lines a problem? [00:32:47] S0: Basically, when you build a floating offshore wind terminal and then you have the cable running up, that cable's in the water. I see. And just usually... [00:32:53] S1: It's the power cable that's feeding the
00:32:53 · John Collison, Will O'Brien, Chris Sacca
[00:32:53] S1: It's the power cable that's feeding the [00:32:55] S0: power Exactly. Back to Yeah. And then you might just have, like, a fishing net floating through the water that has fallen off some Japanese, you know, fishing line. Like, a... That's debris protection. Can't... Debris, and it'll get caught in that. Can you... We can... Can you even bring that over? [00:33:08] S2: Excellent. Actually, good. [00:33:09] S1: We'll give you guys some... [00:33:10] S2: It's so weird. I didn't mean to set you up, but when we talk about craft and beauty... Oh. [00:33:15] S1: Are you doing a product placement [00:33:16] S2: right here? [00:33:17] S0: This is, [00:33:17] S2: man. But this is a tequila that we make, actually. Wow. And it's the only 100 tequila [00:33:22] S0: in You're this drinking with two Irishmen and you didn't bring whiskey. You're in an Irish fire. That's because... Is you bring your own heart. I am an American and we are imperialist. You bring your own... [00:33:33] S1: This is your tequila? [00:33:34] S2: Yes. This is Comos tequila. Comos was a Do know [00:33:36] S1: if you post the TV show Silicon Valley, it's a bit on the nose to make your own Yes. [00:33:40] S2: Yeah. Tres Comos. This is actually literally called Comos. K o m o s. [00:33:45] S0: Plus, it's It's
00:33:45 · Will O'Brien, Chris Sacca
[00:33:45] S0: Plus, it's It's [00:33:47] S2: the only 100% tequila in history. It's very unorthodox, but it's partly aged in wine barrels. And so... And then it also spent some time aerating, so it's like the smoothest drinking tequila ever. But it makes no sense to do it this way. Nobody had done it before, but we care about that stuff. And so I wanna say cheers, but there is a weird tie in to what you just said about design and beauty. That is the smoothest tequila in the world. One of the great cultural things about you and you is you guys both, I think, would identify as heterodox. But what is it about you guys who Don't [00:34:30] S0: ask where I'm from. [00:34:30] S2: Seem to be... No, no. But I think you're emblematic of the movement right now. What is it about you guys? What do you have in common? What's changed?
00:34:30 · Chris Sacca, Will O'Brien
[00:34:30] S2: Seem to be... No, no. But I think you're emblematic of the movement right now. What is it about you guys? What do you have in common? What's changed? [00:34:38] S0: I think the market difference is... The founders look very different. I think you alluded to this earlier. It's like, they're kind of rah rah, smoking, of like go to church on Sunday, maybe a bit louder, working typically on hardware rather than software. No disrespect to Y Combinator, but there's the make something people want moniker or something like that. I think this group is way more like make something the world needs. You know, it's like a different motivation. There is seemingly more of a spiritual or reason to why people start their businesses. Think that's definitely true for myself or at least a motivation in it. I often think of there being head and heart type founders where Jeff Bezos is the canonical head based founder or head oriented founder where it's like, you know, the Internet was growing at 30% per annum, and I saw that, oh, what would be the best thing to sell on the Internet? Oh, books are good because you can move them easily and they don't go off and [00:35:37] S2: Dashboards.