Saronic Founders: Autonomous Warships, China's 230X Advantage & Swarms of Robot Ships

Everybody. Welcome back to the All In Interview Series. I am thrilled, really thrilled because Saronic is a defense company that has been doing amazing work, and we are so lucky to have the cofounders here on the program. Welcome to the program, Dino Mavrukis. How are you, sir? Doing well. Thanks for having us. And, your cofounder here, Vibh Altakar. Let's talk a little bit about Saronic, and we're gonna get into everything. But you were in the news. You were in the news because you're making autonomous ships. And one of these was used recently in the Strait Of Hormuz, I understand. I'm doing all of you. As your wealth grows, have you noticed how much more complex things get between investments, tax strategy, and estate planning? Managing it all is a full time job that you didn't ask for. Creative Planning can help. Their coordinated team of investment managers, CPAs, and affiliated estate attorneys can do much of the heavy lifting so you don't have to. Creative Planning, where wealth works together. Go to creativecreativeplanning.com slash all in. I'm doing all in. I gotta start there, Dino. Tell us about the mission. Tell us what happened. This is the first time an autonomous ship has ever rescued, folks in the field and then we'll get back into your history and everything. But I think, like, we gotta start off with this story because it's incredible. It it it's just a huge story. And I look, I can't get into too many specifics of the operation and the mission for for obvious reasons. But, before we get into what it means for the country, what it means for our company, I mean, without saying the most important thing is that those two pilots came home safely regardless of how they got there. Right? Now what we were able to demonstrate through this partnership with the Navy, like, for us, the Navy actually trusted us. In this moment, lives are on the line. We're gonna send this autonomous platform to go and rescue these folks. This is not a patrol. This is not maritime domain awareness. This is the highest stakes of the highest stakes. There's downed American pilots in the Straits Of Hormuz, and they're like, Corsair, which you actually see right over my right shoulder, which is our 24 foot fully autonomous speedboat for for those that that don't know. So we're gonna use that to rescue the pilots. And that's that's actually, like, a milestone moment for the country, and I can tell you I'll tell you a personal story firsthand on kinda what this means. But you know this, like, leaving people behind in the US military just it's not a thing. No. US military does not do it. Right? Like, I was in the Navy SEAL teams for eleven years from 2004 to 2015. My last five years were on SEAL Team Six. I personally experienced 2005, there were four SEALs trapped on a …