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Nicole Wischoff

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“Okay, great job there with a great guest of the moment. We like our main characters. All right, everybody, we'll see you next time. Bye bye.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The back of the envelope math would be you get diluted 50% if you're a seed investor. So if you owned 5% of a company for 500K, let's say you invested 500K, a $10 million valuation. Now you're down to 2.5% ownership. 2.5% ownership at a $2 billion valuation is $50 million. So for every 50 million, you need to have one of those become worth $2 billion. How many companies do you invest in your life that become worth $2 billion and that you have the ability to exit? Because both things have to happen. It can't just be marked up on paper. You have to have the opportunity to exit. Those are few and far between, which is why when you get an opportunity to sell in secondary at 500, a billion, two billion as a seed fund, you really are encouraged to consider that deeply and maybe sell 10%, 20%, 30% of your position to lock in some DPI and keep your fund in business.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The same period of time, which is why venture is such a troubled space right now, is can you beat the market is the real question. VCs are having a really hard time because they have to beat the returns of a vibrant stock mark”
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“Know if you do a 50 million, you can get 100 names in there or 150 names or in our case, maybe like 250 because we have this founder university very unique product in the market where you give 25k checks for the first check that a company even gets to incorporate. You know, if you have something unique like that, the chances of hitting an outlier go way up. And then if you do hit the power law in a smaller fund, the ability to have a multiple on that goes up. So the smaller the fund, the greater the chance of having a four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 20x fund. Whereas if you've got a big number like $500 million fund or a billion dollar fund, you're going for two times, three times the amount of money, which means it's probably, you know, going to be very similar to the stock market.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just dead, or was in zombie state and the founder's like, yeah, I don't know if I, and then all of a sudden they pull a rabbit out of the hat and they raise a series A and you're like, oh my God, that's incredible. So these markups, you know, paper markups are just that. And it really comes down to can you get any kind of a DPI? Can you distribute? And so great job, Nicole. And it's hard. And I like keeping the fun size smaller. That I think was the other point in her in the discussion, Alex, is, you know, she's like, why would you have $150 million seed fund?”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, you could have asked her that. She probably would have said. Yeah, most, you know, here's the easy thing you say. I'm in the J curve. So most people would just say, I'm in the J curve. Like for our fun three, I'm in the J curve, right? We just deployed it. So who knows? And then for fun one and two, on paper 4.9 and I think 4x on paper. And then in terms of returns ballpark, I don't have the exact number in front of me. It's like 1.2 and 0.5 or 0.6 return for the first two funds, which is great. Now, my job is to close the gap between the paper gain. And the actual distributed. And what's crazy is sometimes you have a startup that's 20% of your paper gains and it goes out of business. Oh my Lord, now, you know, I was 5x on paper. I'm 4x. And then you have some company you thought was.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, timing is everything. If you went out in PXERP, you raised three times as much in half the time if you raised during, you raised half your target. And then if you raised after, you raised your target. So it's just like for founders, it's really difficult for VCs right now. And congratulations on doing that. Keep it up.”
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“M&A, and then all of a sudden, when singles and doubles happen, that's when people get frisky. When you return 50% of your fund early, you know, year four or five, they get half their money back or they get a full term, 1x. People are like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'd love to support your next fund. But if you haven't returned, Anybody who had that fund in 2020 to 2020 to 2022, that vintage is going to be really hard pressed to raise again. And so”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I started right before that, and oh my Lord, for six months, I just had to pause everything in the middle of it. I was like, you know what? This makes no sense. I had already gotten in, you know, 10 or 20 million from my accredited investors and some early LPs. And then everything blew up. Every single person thought it was the end of days. And they just said, would love to meet with you. Don't want to waste your time. We're not doing any funds this year. This is 2023. We're not doing any funds in 2023. And we're pairing our names. We're going to lower the number of funds that we already have. So we're going to cut names. And it was like, we're going to cut names of people you just did their first or second fund. And they're like, yeah, because we don't have money because there's no DPI in the world's ended now. All we need is a couple more service nows and Reddits and these kind of things. And maybe the end of the wrath of Lena Khan will change.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is the same for founders, right? Like if they have a definitive goal and they're saying, hey, the train's leaving the station, I'll talk to you for the next fund. Did you start before or after Silicon Valley Bank went under and then had to reboot?”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Basic math, you know, especially for seed funds. If you're a seed fund and you were in Postmates or a Series A investor and it got bought by Uber for a couple of billion bucks, you feel pretty good about it, right?”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The fact that Lyft maybe isn't Uber, but it still became worth $10 billion or $20 billion at whatever point in time, you still did phenomenal. So sometimes even hitting the number two or the number three can be a massive grand slam for a fund. People forget that.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you look at, say, food delivery, man, all of the food delivery companies are consolidated down to how many players now, two or three? Uber Eat Storash. What else is there now? Toast, I guess, arguably is a public company that was private. So anyway, things consolidate down. That's part of the race. And if you were an investor in Lyft in the seed round or the Series A or Series B, even you're pretty happy even with.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“An Uber for X, right? I mean, how many of those pitches do we see? Which ones still exist? Which Uber is for X still exists right now? And then even with the copycats.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I call those Alex the beach to surf at. So, what beaches have good waves right now? AI, fence tech, obviously. What beaches do people maybe not believe in as much? Consumer VR, SaaS, people don't believe in anymore. Entrepreneurs rightfully will look for where the action is. And the action sometimes is based on just following Uber and DoorDash and Lyft and saying, oh, there's a lot of energy over on on-demand and Airbnb. So they do Airbnb of everything.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Portfolio management is part of the game here. You do have to show in Fun Two that you can get half your companies to Series A or whatever it is in order to raise Fund three. And that's because, Alex, if you're a new VC, it's only my first fund that's really hitting the 10-year mark now when you can actually look at returns. And so, how do LPs judge how Nicole's doing or how I'm doing or how Peravi's doing Peravc is doing? If they don't have outcomes where companies are going public or you're distributing, they look at pull-through. And so that does drive a little bit of this, where everybody is circling the wagons and marking each other up. But at the end of the day, your career will ultimately be defined by your power or outliers.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think, and Nicole is you're doing individual deals, I would expect maybe only one in three to half of our companies to pull through to the next round. Now, that would be low by other people's standards. Where if you're a Series A firm, you expect 80% of your companies to get a Series B. If you're a seed fund, I don't know what Nicole expects, but I would guess two out of three to get to Series A would be the hope. I'm actually hoping the opposite. Now, why would I be hoping that two out of three don't make it to the next round? Well, that means we're being more audacious. We're taking more risk. So just based on my career, I would rather swing for the fences and hit another Uber or Robin Hood com and work the power law than play it safe and do 10 more SaaS companies. That doesn't mean we don't do SaaS or whatever, but...”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yeah, I am a bit of a lunatic and probably an outlier. And I think you're a function of the bets that you've previously won. So if you were to tell me the top three investments you would have would be a taxi company, a meditation app, and a stock trading app where you don't charge people to trade, those were obviously Ubercom and Robinhood, you know, three of our major outliers. Those were non-consensus bets. And those were things people did not want to bet on at the time. 19 of 21 people I introduced Uber 2 did not invest first round. Cyan Bannister and myself did the investment I had introduced first round in Cyan to it. Back in the day. And so Nicole is pointing out something called pull through. And so for seed funds like ours, and we have same-sized seed fund and we do essentially the same thing, although we have, I think, an accelerator and a pre-accelerator. So we have more pro.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can speak SAS to Jason Lemkin or David Sachs or people who've put out a shingle saying we do SAS and people who are looking for an idea. Seems like SAS is getting funded. Seems like there's a lot of people hanging out on that beach surfing those waves and everybody runs to that beach, whether it's the VR beach, the AR beach, the SaaS beach, the on-demand beach, the Apps Beach, Consumer Beach. So I think there could be two phenomenon happening here.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course, there's only a small number of things people do in the world. They eat, they sleep, and they go to work. They try to be productive. They laugh. You can fit into a certain number of buckets. So new technology applied to existing problem sets in the world, eating, as but one example. And then I think the second one is people see funding for a category like we saw in SaaS, Nicole. They're like, oh, wow, SaaS companies, there's a playbook here. I can learn the playbook.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was going to say, you know, this phenomenon is very interesting. I've seen it many years going into my second decade. I think I'm maybe a couple years ahead of you in this career. I remember during mobile and social, everybody had a check-in app like Foursquare or Gowala, and we were investors in Gowalla, consult to Facebook, was a major outcome. But everybody was going to do a photo sharing app. And then there was the sort of, everybody was going to do a food delivery app. I think there's a kind of two phenomenon here. One is when there's a new technology that's going to be applied, say apps emerge, GPS emerged, that becomes the why now. So everybody's like, whoa, Steve Jobs just launched the iPhone or there's an app store on the iPhone or the watch is out. And so everybody says, well, what can I do with that new platform? There's a new why now. There's GPS. There's Stripe. There's some new headset device and everybody rushes in.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, great. What's the word? Worker bees, less queens. Whatever. Know some structure, and then you change the structure. You go from Uber having. You know, little fifdoms where each city, when they were growing, were running their own city, running their own marketing, had their own little fifdoms, and they were battling it out. And then Dara takes over and says, You know what? Let's bring the decision making central so that we're not ruffling as. And that was better for Uber at later stages. Maybe it's better A bunch of country heads go crazy again and you know have their own fiftom. So that's, I think, how you look at management theory is the best thing to do is to switch it up from time to time and crack any calcification that could be occurring there.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you go from building up all these middle managers at Facebook and Google and product managers, et cetera. And then you say, you know what? Rip it all out, flatten the structure. Let's have more chiefs, more Indians, not a bunch of chiefs. Do I get canceled for saying that?”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do they say like success has a million parents and failures in orphan? If something successful happens, we're going to say, oh my God, the federal government stepped in and it was incredible what they did. And then if it fails, we'll be like, oh my God, the government failed. So, you know, if you look at something like education and we're falling behind on education or healthcare, you know, you're going to be like, you know what? Screw the federal government, move it back to the states. The states are failing at something. Like, why don't we have a federal mandate for, I don't know, abortion? Or why don't we have a federal mandate for school vouchers? You get the idea. And so I think the best feature, if I'm being totally honest, is having two options. And in management, one of the theories is to keep switching things up so that you don't hit stasis and calcification doesn't happen.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it just kind of got lost across agencies, et cetera. We were tracking some of the hijackers long before 9-11. This kind of stuff happens all the time. So it's completely possible.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is a theory we left out. There was one theory this could be a military exercise. That seems plausible too. So I'll put the military exercise pretty high up on this list. And a military exercise with copycats could be like a really viable explanation here. And lest you think that our government is coordinated, I need only bring up 9-11 where hijackers in Florida were taking lessons and didn't care about learning how to land the plane. They only cared about learning how to fly them. And the FBI there knew about it.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We've seen And what's going on there? Because there is a bill or an act that I think got signed into law that Biden signed in where you cannot, if you're a government employee, buy a DGI drone. DGI drones, like the TikTok ban, is a major issue that we should all be aware of because DGI drones are made in China and they could very easily be sending all the information they've got back. And maybe there's like a zero day exploit, you know, where all the drones could be controlled or taken over at a certain point. Same thing with self-driving technology. Do you want BYD cars on the road in America? Do you want TikTok available in America? Do you want DGI drones? The Chinese could at some point just say, okay, have all the BYDs crash, have all the DGI drones kill people and then let's use TikTok to create chaos. So you start thinking about these attack vectors could be a little scary.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
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2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A lot of money at stake here whenever there's a countermeasures, as you're pointing out, to the measures, that means there's an opportunity and there's a business opportunity. So we talked about all these different startups, and we have Nicole on the pod later in the program to talk about the opportunities and seeing a lot of duplicates. We're going to see this is going to be a good beach for founders to serve. We now know that drones can help in construction, inspections, all these kind of really great, awesome use cases. They're also entertaining and fun. They're great for photography. Okay, great. But there's going to be a downside. So now there's a whole industry of detecting and countermeasures. And those are, you know, we're going to see a lot of them, but geopolitics now plays into it. So we have conspiracy theories.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, we have air traffic control. Why don't we have drone traffic control? Because if we know the next. Assassination attempt, the next terrorist attack, the next God forbidden 9 11 is probably going to be drone warfare. I hate to say it, but that seems like the most obvious next thing for a lunatic, a terrorist, you know, an evil person, an evil group to do if they wanted to terrorize people. If you did what people are doing in Ukraine and you started dropping grenades on people waiting for a bus in Manhattan, this would be super terrorizing. I bought a DGI Joe drone this summer. I was in Manhattan. I've talked about it. Thing's incredible, and I was just flying it around Manhattan, and I was shocked that you were allowed to. Well,”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, this is really interesting. You know, the ability to have essentially air traffic control for drones. Then there's the ability to take the drones out, and there's multiple ways to take a drone out. One is to screw with their electronics. Another is to hit them with another drone or a missile. There's all kinds of different lasers and heating them up, frying them. There's tons of ways to take them down. But first you have to track them. And this to me is shocking that we don't have this technology in the field, which then leads to the next theory.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Probably Celtic fans or Patriot fans. Decided to take their commercial drones and fly near Logan. They got picked up in two seconds, they got pinched immediately for being idiots. And they do this during a drone scare. And you know what? Drones in Ukraine. We have now videos of drones dropping grenades. Russian soldiers and vice versa. So, this is obviously on everybody's mind. Idiots go, they shut down Logan, they get pinched. But how do we know? And it turns out drone detection is a category in and of itself. We found a startup that does drone det”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And maybe stitching together some facts. Here's another fact. Do we have tools to know the drones that are flying everywhere? Does that exist? Are there satellite companies? Are there radar companies? Are there camera companies that monitor drones? How do local police, how do military bases, how do airfields and air reports, how do they know if drones are coming in? Even a recreational drone, certainly a larger commercial drone, that could take down an airliner. And we've seen just this week some dipshits in Boston.”
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“Yeah, I mean, without social media, probably not. I think in the era before social media, it was much easier to control these kind of situations when something happened in a city, whether, you know, God forbid a shooting, a mass shooting, or something. It was easier to contain stuff, right? And to control the narrative. But when everybody's got a broadcast-capable satellite truck in their pocket and they can pop up any number of services and live stream and be citizen journalists. Going to get the good and the bad, and you just have to be media savvy. So the question then becomes, you know, for me, every consumer, people listening to this podcast and other ones, you have to become really good at doing what we're doing here, which is handicapping the situation, thinking of profitabilities, thinking probabilistically.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Precisely. Precisely. It's the same thing with, I don't know, taking a small plane. I get offered all the time to go in little prop planes, bring the girls, go fly around New York City, take a helicopter here. Hard no. Thank you. I'll take a pass. I get invited to go hella skiing. I just say, you know what? I've done the actuary tables. I get to go scuba diving 100 feet. Nope. Motorcycles. Nope. I just took all the stuff off. Hard no on cave diet. I'd love to hell escape. Dad took all this crazy risk. Did he love us or not? I know I'm sound overly dramatic. But isn't that what everybody would think? Or am I different?”
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“And transform your startup with the all star team it deserves. That's just me. I'm not paranoid, but I think it would be sensible if they were coming over your head, if you had these going over your house and you knew what we knew, what would you do with your and your kids? Would you leave and go to your in-laws or your parents?”
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2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But you know, Twitter's for spitball and stuff. I said, you know, if it was me and I sold all these drones and I thought there was a 1% or even a one in a thousand chance, that it was actually a nuclear thing, I would take a vacation with my family. Now, of course, I have the means to do that or whatever, but if I was seeing these things over my house over and over again, whether I was a middle class person or upper, I would get the heck out of Dodge for a couple of weeks. Just go to a family member's house. I would leave. All right. Take a second and picture the ultimate all-star team for your startup. Okay, you got that mental image. Maybe the Avengers, maybe even X-Men, Wolverine, Cyclops, pick your favorite superhero team. And let's be realistic. Until you've raised your series A or your Series B, you might need some help building that dream team and finding top tier talent, managing all the timelines you've got, and maintaining quality. It's a big lift for all founders. I mean, scouting.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, let's game theory then. Okay, you suspect there's a 1% chance that this Ukrainian former Soviet Union nuke is in New Jersey at the port somewhere. You tell people if you're the government? I said to myself, yeah, 1% chance. I said to myself on Twitter and I got a bunch of people saying I was fearmongering.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, for ports for security reasons. Okay. So, this has been the fear. Ports have radiation detectors. Because there's always been this, and I think this was a subject of 24, right? Like the TV show, was there was a rogue nuke, a loose nuke. And so they said ports on a container where it would come from. So I guess the drones fly over containers or the containers, my understanding is go through machines that check them. This is a theory with some level of credibility. Now, on top of all this is the next theory I love. So anything else on this theory that is notable or that we should. Notable that we should.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Here we go. Arcus Araborn FPG Radiation Detection Drone. This radiation detection drone can map an area of whatever in a single flight of 20 minutes. The system is about 50 times more sensitive than typical drone-based detectors. A central alarm station.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Leaks and other material, you know, I'm sure these Israelis have some technology here trying to monitor what Iran is doing with stuff, with their nuclear material, Pakistan, North Korea. There's all kinds of reasons to look for this. So we did see there was a startup when I was doing some research that does this, yeah?”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But sending drones and having them do it at night, which he said, that's when in the part of the video, again, who knows, this is all pure speculation. But if they were looking for the signature of radiation, is there a startup that does this? I asked myself, because there would be multiple reasons to look for radiation, a dirty bomb would be high up there.”
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“Seems like a great use of drones. So I did a little research. He said, this sounds like a very interesting use of drones, right? If you're in a helicopter or a plane, those are expensive. They're loud and sending 50 Cessna's across New Jersey. You know, at 3,000 feet or 2,000 feet, whatever it is, that's going to create a lot of noise, a lot of ruckus And sure, they could put on the bottom of them some sensors, but I don't know if it's low enough to actually pick up the radiation. I'm no expert on this.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Somebody who claims to be a drone expert, they have a LinkedIn page that looks like it has existed for a while, so I have no reason to not believe them. But this is my favorite theory. Why? Because it's the most interesting. And that's what our minds do. So here we go. Speculation like Colombo, this is an individual who works in the drone industry's assessment of what's happened.”
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“And then there's always been this fear of a rogue missing nuke Ukraine, Russia, who knows. It could be a Pakistani nuke. You know, they did a lot of research. They sold their technology to supposedly Iran and North Korea. So completely possible of rogue nuke could be loose in the United States for the last 50 years. I mean, that would make total sense to me that we have a nuclear bomb somewhere in Russia, somewhere in China that we implanted at some point and hid in a basement somewhere. Why couldn't somebody do that to us and have that as an option? I know that sounds like crazy conspiracy theories. That doesn't seem Too difficult to do, especially with the size of tactical nukes. All right. So there was a video.”
2024-12-17 · This Week in Startups · Silicon Valley Clones and Jersey Drones: Decoding the Signals with Nicole Wischoff | E2061 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And he said, you know, he was going to release the JFK files. He didn't do that. So there is like, you're right. Now we put a layer on top of this of Trump says everything. All permutations and gives himself complete optionality when dealing with making a decision, he might go to Japan and go skiing, he might not. But he loves Japan. It's like it never ends with him. So here he's kind of like giving us both possibilities. But there's something going on here. I think everybody agrees with that. So then the mind wanders. The one that I attach myself to the most, just with a curious mind, and I thought this was super interesting and led to me doing a little research online was the dirty bomb. And that drones flying at low altitudes with certain sensors on them. Sense radiation.”
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