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- (50:52) - Chase Lochmiller is the co-founder and CEO of Crusoe, an energy and computing company that uses stranded natural gas to power data centers and AI workloads. He focuses on aligning energy production with high-performance computing demand, turning wasted resources into infrastructure for machine learning and cloud services.
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- (01:55:39) - Casey Handmer is the co-founder and CEO of Terraform Industries, a company focused on producing low-cost synthetic fuels using renewable energy. A former physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he writes extensively on energy, climate, and industrial systems, with an emphasis on scaling technologies that enable abundant clean energy.
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- (02:24:13) - Delian Asparouhov is a partner at Founders Fund focused on frontier technologies, including aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing. He previously co-founded Varda Space Industries, which builds space-based manufacturing infrastructure, and works closely with companies pushing the boundaries of hardware and national security tech.
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