Hill & Valley Gigastream, Apple's Next CEO, OpenAI's Non-Profit | Scott Nolan, Sarah Guo, Casey Handmer, Shaun Maguire, Delian Asparouhov, Zach Dell, Ryan Petersen, and Chase Lochmiller

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Mar 24, 2026

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Sarah Guo, AI investor at Conviction, joins Casey Handmer, ex NASA physicist building synthetic fuels, Ryan Petersen of Flexport, Chase Lochmiller of Crusoe, and more frontier tech builders. They dig into Apple succession drama, OpenAI’s billion-dollar nonprofit plans, AI’s hunger for power, tariff-fueled logistics chaos, nuclear fuel bottlenecks, lunar infrastructure, and home batteries for the grid.

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INSIGHT

Waymo Shows How Fast Robotics Can Normalize

Sarah Guo expects robotics to reach a ChatGPT-style public breakthrough within two years, starting with robotaxis and then homes.
She says consumers move from fear to entitlement quickly, using Waymo as proof that adoption can normalize with surprising speed.

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Synthetic Fuel Is A Cost Problem Not A Physics Problem

Casey Handmer says synthetic fuel is technically old science; the hard part is beating fracked hydrocarbons on cost.
Terraform has spent four years solving the cost curve and just broke ground on a California desert test site to produce methane and methanol from sunlight and air.

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Terraform Turns Milestones Into Desk Trophies

Casey Handmer uses milestone bonuses as a visible morale system, handing out fake cash notes people pin beside their desks.
He borrowed the idea from Nucor's output focus so engineers remember exactly which impossible milestone they already beat.

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