Julia DeWahl of Antares on building nuclear reactors for the US military
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Julia Duall is the cofounder of Antares, which is designing nuclear microreactors for the military and other off grid use cases. Cheers.
Cheers. Thanks for coming by.
It's great to be
So you started out as first Opendoor and then SpaceX. What did you learn at each one of those that you took to Antares?
Yeah. Sure. I I think one of the the big things is always about customers. Right? I mean, at the end of the day, this is why you build a business. At Open Door, lot of us were pretty young starting the business. I was one of the early employees there, and none of us had ever bought, let alone sold a house. So a lot of it was like learning what that was all about. And I remember in the early days, just we're working on writing the copy for the website, and we're
like You have no idea how to hold a We don't
really know much about this whole thing, so what can we do about that? We just went and sat outside a bagel shop for, Saturday and a Sunday morning, and just bought people bagels, and just asked them about their processes, buying and selling a home, and learned a ton. Just and really, you know, thought about what language they were using, what were the pain points. And that was really important to just like Yes. Really get to know what we were trying to deliver on as a business. And then, you know, fast forward to joining SpaceX after Opendoor, I joined as Starlink was coming out of R and D an
For whatever this simplifying people's understanding of what would mean.
People kinda didn't realize how much the setup was so painful. Yes. It led to basically this cross functional SWAT team that was dedicated to mounting options to be sold alongside the dish. Like, if you had First
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