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Crossing the Valley

Frontdoor Defense

Few companies make it from pilot to production in the defense market. Those who do often change the industry in the process. How do they do it? What lessons can startups take from their trials, successes, and failures? Crossing the Valley tells the stories of the trailblazers who are forging a new path for America's defense. www.valleycrossers.com

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Episodis

101 episodis

  1. Ep. 98 - Larry Harrell, Perfect Point EDM 44:59
  2. Ep. 97: Why SpaceX Outsourced 95% of Its Wire Harnesses 43:17
  3. Ep. 96: Robert Slaughter, Defense Unicorns 44:06
  4. SPECIAL RELEASE: How ASW SO/LIC Put $650,000 on Contract in Eight Hours 16:17
  5. Ep. 95: Andrew Markoff, Smack Technologies 52:28
  6. Ep. 94: A Replicator Retrospective 49:30
  7. Ep. 93: Building Minimum Useful Products 55:27
  8. Ep. 92: Conductor AI is building the layer between Law and Action 39:24
  9. Ep. 91 - John Conafay, CEO of Integrate 51:16
  10. Ep. 90: Friends Don't Let Friends Start Drone Companies 56:06
  11. Ep. 89: Lux Aeterna 41:51
  12. Ep. 88 - Method Security 46:33
  13. Ep. 87 - How Turion Space is Turning a Trillion-Dollar Vision Into a Fundable Company 53:21
  14. Ep. 86: In the Whitespace 48:51
  15. Ep. 85 - Building a first check partnership 41:20
  16. Ep. 84 - Cape 45:17
  17. Ep. 83 - Nominal 47:21
  18. Ep. 82 - Machina Labs 47:15
  19. Ep. 81 - Revolutionizing Thermal Imaging with Obsidian Sensors 25:53
  20. Ep. 80 - Persistent Systems (very first podcast!) 43:54
  21. Ep. 79 - Inside GrayMatter Robotics 38:45
  22. Ep. 78 - How HavocAI is solving a $2.3B problem 48:52
  23. Ep. 77 - Tasking a Satellite in Seconds 43:34
  24. Ep. 76 - WHOOP: Wearables at War 45:08
  25. Ep. 75: The Field is the Lab for Overland AI 16:19
  26. Ep. 74 - How Forterra Acquired goTenna in 72 Hours 49:08
  27. Ep. 73: SARONIC - "If We Can't Build a Thousand Boats, I Don't Care About the Design" 47:36
  28. Ep. 72: WIRESCREEN - From Pulitzer to Intelligence Platform 47:26
  29. Ep. 71: Why America Lost the Hypersonics Race (And How to Win It Back) 18:36
  30. Ep. 70: Checking in on Apex Space 14:53
  31. Ep. 69: Legion Intelligence is building the AI plumbing for defense 46:46
  32. Ep. 68: Solving America's Propulsion Crisis 39:53
  33. Ep. 67 Solving Robotic Unemployment - Gecko Robotics 31:36
  34. Ep. 66 - Winning the Space War 26:20
  35. Ep. 65: Pryzm's Quest to Help DOW Pass an Audit 39:11
  36. Guest Episode: Rebuilding the Fleet x HII 47:54
  37. Ep. 64: Nathan Diller, Divergent 37:01
  38. Ep. 62: Eric Hanft, Ditto Public Sector 48:25
  39. Ep. 62: Rune Technologies CEO David Tuttle 47:03
  40. Ep. 61: Hidden Level CEO Jeff Cole 40:51
  41. Ep. 60: The $150M Bet on American Magnet Independence 39:36
  42. Ep 59: Building Infrastructure for 70% of the Untouched World 49:28
  43. Ep 58: Blue Water Raises $50M to Deliver Maritime Autonomy to the Navy 21:40
  44. Ep. 57: A Navy SEAL Reveals What Ukraine Taught Us About Drone Warfare 38:17
  45. Ep. 56: "The Adversary Doesn't Give a S*** About Your Compliance State" 1:15:13
  46. Ep. 55: Equipping the Military for Human-Centric Warfare 49:30
  47. Ep. 54: Tracking Stuff in Space 46:27
  48. Ep. 53: The Startup General 23:18
  49. Ep. 52: Rebuilding America's Defense Industrial Base 47:06
  50. Ep. 51: From Silicon Valley to Lieutenant Colonel: The Detachment 201 Story 34:39