
ICON
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ICON
@ICON3DTech
ICON develops robotic and AI systems to lower the cost and increase the speed and quality of construction.


Happy Monday. On today's show: - @ZBrownCEO (McLaren) - @RickCarusoLA (Caruso) - @WillHurd (ICON) - @AnushElangovan (AMD) - @ADoricko (Rainmaker) See you on the stream.

The first words spoken on the moon were Houston. @JasonDBallard believes the first thing built on the moon will come from Austin. Ballard is the CEO of @ICON3DTech Will Hurd, former CIA officer, three-term Texas congressman, and OpenAI board member, just joined as President of ICON Prime, the company's new government-focused unit serving the military, the intelligence community, and NASA. I've been tracking ICON for a long time, but this conversation hit different. The thesis that has been at play since 2018 is materializes in the real world faster, cheaper, better and at scale. 1 week vs 59 days 2 people vs 17 people $20 per sqft vs $35 per sqft Tougher and stronger than what's out there, so it can go where no building has gone before The future is starting to look like the future Agenda 0:00 What ICON is building and why shelter is broken 6:40 The regulation stack and ICON as a technology company 11:40 Customer shapes, business model, and the innovation stack 17:10 AI, ChatGPT from the inside, and the case for optimism 23:40 The spoons-and-ditches fallacy and Hurd's regulation inversion 30:30 What is ICON Prime and the barracks crisis 36:40 Military construction, Afghanistan, and expeditionary printing 42:40 The moon base, Olympus, and in-situ resource utilization 49:40 Eight years of the same thesis and software's limit 56:40 Austin's talent gravity and the ICON diaspora 1:00:40 The moon in our lifetime 1:04:40 National security, espionage, and Austin as a target 1:08:40 Laser on the moon, 2028


















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