The Inference Foundry: How Baseten Turned the GPU Shortage Into an $11B Company
Every AI product ships on top of the same shortage: not enough GPUs, in not enough places. Baseten built the plumbing that hides that shortage from the rest of the industry, and four funding rounds in eighteen months turned it into an $11-13B company.
The Robot That Eats Rock: How Petra Beat Hard Rock and Still Went Under
Petra built a machine that bores through the hardest rock on earth without touching it. The technology worked. The company died anyway. What happened next is the part worth studying.
The Diesel Killer: How Radiant is Building Portable Nuclear Reactors for the Grid
"Stop building nuclear plants like buildings; build them like cars." Inside Radiant, the SpaceX alumni-founded startup bringing portable micro-reactors to the grid.
Apollo Atomics: Why AI is Demanding Micro-Nuclear
Traditional nuclear takes decades to build. Apollo Atomics uses proven MIT research and a 20x smaller steam generator to build truck-sized micro-reactors for AI.
How Rogo and Gabriel Stengel are Exorcising the Wall Street Grind
Why are $50B M&A deals still limited by Excel spreadsheets at 3 AM? Inside Rogo, the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup building the AI analyst for investment banks.
The $20M Dream Plane: How Greg Mercer and Shane Stinemetz are Exorcising the Ghost of General Aviation
Why are small planes still ten times more dangerous than cars? Inside Skytron, the hard tech startup building a twin-engine, software-defined airplane to eliminate pilot error.
The Heavy Metal Pivot: How Victor Boyd is Automating the Warehouse Backbone
Why did retrofitting warehouse fleets fail? Inside Cavalla, the Thiel-backed startup manufacturing its own full-stack autonomous forklifts to solve the supply chain bottleneck.
The Global Sweat Machine: How Moritz Fürste Standardized Physical Pain
Why are digital fitness giants collapsing while physical-world races are booming? Inside HYROX, the LVMH-backed physical-world scale masterclass.
The Hydrogen Insurgency: How a 19-Year-Old Dropout Built a $1.8B Defense Giant
"Replace gunpowder with hydrogen." Inside Mach Industries, the Founders Fund-backed defense giant mass-producing autonomous weapons for the post-unmanned era.
The Drone that Woke Up Europe: How Florian Seibel Built a $3B Defense Powerhouse
The European defense sector has traditionally operated on a timeline that would drive a Silicon Valley founder insane. For decades, the continent […]
The 10x Lawyer: How Max Junestrand Built Legora to $5.5B at Light Speed
"You only get one shot." Inside the intense, competitive grind of Max Junestrand and Legora, the startup putting AI in the hands of the world's most elite law firms.
How ICON is Printing the Future of Construction
We do not have enough human hands to build the infrastructure the world needs. Inside ICON's Titan system and the shift to software-defined construction.