{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cheeky Pint","title":"The company building underwater drones for $50,000","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/92078ce3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2982,"description":"Will O'Brien, founder and CEO of Ulysses, joins John and Chris Sacca for a pint to discuss how underwater autonomous robots are scaling up to solve critical ocean challenges.\nThey cover the technical history of Guinness (including the math breakthrough that created Student's t-test), why seagrass is an overlooked super-sequester of carbon, and the engineering required to operate robots thousands of meters beneath the surface. Will also breaks down Ulysses' vertical integration strategy, the reality of eco-pragmatism versus \"green tape,\" and what it takes to sell hard tech to defense and offshore energy sectors.\n\nTimestamps\n(00:00:30) R&D at Guinness\n(00:05:43) Planting seagrass with robots\n(00:16:53) Lowering the cost of doing things in the ocean\n(00:19:00) Landing in a Chinese prison\n(00:27:53) Building robots to withstand saltwater\n(00:31:08) Live use cases for underwater robots\n(00:46:03) The undersea cable vulnerability\n\nResources:\nGuinness Quality Standards: https://www.guinnesscelebrate.com/our-quality/quality-standards\nNo Great Stagnation in Guinness by Will O’Brien: https://www.thefitzwilliam.com/p/no-great-stagnation-in-guinness","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/yxGTFiQoO_yf4AoNETaTqI0qZ7bnSJakdxQ_jGkRaug/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZGFk/ODk1OGE5Y2ExZjc5/MGMxNjYwOWQxYjdi/YTlkYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}