What podcasts say about Nelson Mills
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What Nelson Mills has said on podcasts
19 statements · 12 positive · 7 negative
Investors may fund startups showing capable teams and large markets despite technical risk.
“if you can convince people that you're the right people to... potentially solve this problem and you can show that like hey there's a really big market at the other end of this um then people will take the risk and give you”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 14:40
De-risking technology and markets leads investors to assign higher valuations.
“as you develop and de-risk your technology and de-risk your market, people will give you higher and higher valuations”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 15:44
Vaughton’s $2 million pre-seed funded its initial prototype.
“$2 million really got us to an initial prototype”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 16:03
Vaughton has raised $85 million in total.
“we've raised 85 million dollars”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 16:25
SpaceX’s Starship launch approach will never be cost-effective.
“if you're trying to shoot rockets and launch you know because spacex's starship that's never going to be cost effective”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 16:38
About 60% of seed-funded companies fail to reach Series A.
“it's something like 60 percent of companies that raise this seed don't make it to series a”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 20:36
Hands-on demonstrations substantially increase Vaughton’s investor closing rate.
“if we can get an investor to our facility in Rhode Island and get them hands on the vehicle and get them out in the water with it, we almost always close that investor”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 21:03
Vaughton’s new facility can scale S6 production to hundreds monthly.
“that can scale that to hundreds a month”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 27:39
Vaughton has won more than $40 million in contracts.
“We've won over 40 million in contracts”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 27:43
A focused, vertically integrated undersea company can reach $100 billion.
“And you can build a $100 billion company.”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 29:28
Vaughton’s two differently sized vehicles share about 50% of their bill of materials.
“something like 50 of the bomb is shared”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 30:32
Anduril demonstrated government startups can rapidly grow revenue while staying agile.
“Andrel proved that you can build a startup in the government space, that you can grow revenue rapidly. And you can do that while still remaining agile and fast moving”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 33:43
Scaled superior defense technology can deter adversaries and reduce war.
“if we can show hey we can take this new technology that's better than yours and build it at massive scale and make it too costly then we will have less war more peace”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 35:17
Future conflicts involving Iran, Ukraine, or Russia will continue.
“there will continue to be conflicts like we have with Iran, perhaps conflicts around Ukraine or with Russia and other areas”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 35:36
China, Taiwan, and the United States are not fully prepared for a potential conflict.
“I don't think China, Taiwan, or the U.S. are fully ready for this conflict.”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 36:25
The United States has the world’s best navy.
“I think the U.S. does have the best navy in the world”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 36:30
China possesses a very large missile arsenal relevant to regional naval warfare.
“China just has so many missiles”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 37:09
Current Patriot and THAAD interceptor usage rates make defense difficult.
“currently at the rate we're shooting patriots and thads, it's going to be tough”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 37:24
A China war could produce issues similar to Russia’s wartime problems.
“I think what we'll see is we'll see similar issues if that war starts with China that Russia had”
Open the episode · E442: Nelson Mills on Building a $100 Billion Company, the China Threat, and the Future of WarListen at 37:34
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