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The company building underwater drones for $50,000

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Briefings

Will O'Brien, founder of Ulysses, discusses how underwater autonomous robots are scaling to solve ocean challenges. The podcast covers technical history of Guinness, seagrass as a carbon sequester, and engineering for deep-sea operations. It highlights Ulysses' vertical integration, eco-pragmatism, and sales strategies for defense and energy sectors.

Key points

• Will O'Brien, founder and CEO of Ulysses, joined John and Chris Sacca for a podcast discussion on underwater autonomous robots.
• The podcast covers the technical history of Guinness, including a math breakthrough that created Student's t-test, and why seagrass is an overlooked super-sequester of carbon.

Context

The podcast explores how underwater autonomous robots are scaling up to solve critical ocean challenges, featuring discussions on technical history, carbon sequestration, and deep-sea engineering.

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