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Ep. 09: How IronEagleX Reverse Engineered a Rapidly-Growing Defense Tech Startup
Michael Grochol is a fascinating example of when a Silicon Valley-raised problem solver-come-national security expert. His approach to starting a com…
2 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 08 - From Scaleup to Startup: Marc Frankel is Solving Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities with Lessons from Palantir and Expanse
Overview
Marc Frankel is one of the few people on earth to have worked at not one but TWO successful defense tech companies: Palantir, and Expanse. No…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 07: How Firehawk Aerospace Won Congressional Appropriations to Fuel their Liftoff
Will Edwards, CEO and Co-founder of Firehawk Aerospace joins us to talk 3D printed rocket propellant, Congressional appropriations, and how the team …
2 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 06: Building the National Security OS with Second Front Systems
In this conversation with Second Front Systems CEO Tyler Sweatt, we dive into Tyler's own transition from military to startups, what the Defense Depa…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 05: Growing CFD Research from the Garage to a $75M Business
Overview
CFD Research is a small business founded in 1987 in the Singhal family garage in Huntsville, Alabama. Today it is a $75M business that has re…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 04: Growing ID.me to a $150M ARR Unicorn
Case Study: From Zero to A Billion - the Making of an Identity Verification Unicorn
I met Blake Hall in 2020, during COVID, as my nonprofit organizati…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 03: How ZeroEyes Went Straight to Production with DoD
“Skipping the Valley” - the ZeroEyes Story
ZeroEyes was founded in 2018 by a team of Navy SEALs and technologists: Mike Lahiff, Sam Alaimo, Tim Sulzer…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 2: Apogee Research is Changing the System from Within
Apogee Research is a small engineering firm that developed one the Defense Department’s latest solution to the age-old challenge of interoperability.…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 1: Bootstrapping from Prototype to Production, with Accrete AI
Welcome to the first episode of Crossing the Valley!
I’m excited to bring you Accrete AI’s story of tech transition. It’s a story about a commercial-f…
2 years, 8 months ago
Coming Soon: Crossing the Valley
Each year, thousands of companies show up to sell their products and services to the Department of Defense.
But so few make it across the “Valley of D…
2 years, 8 months ago