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Valar Atomics 30 days of Hard Tech: Day 8 ☢️ Abe Murray (GP at AlleyCorp): “Isaiah is so phenomenal at telling a story, pulling a cult of belief behind him around what he's trying to do with nuclear power” “Isaiah said from day one, ‘You have to touch metal. You have to build. You can't theorize your way to a new nuclear reactor. You have to actually do it.’” “He understood what the world needs is cheap energy. It doesn't need a theoretically optimal reactor. It needs a buildable, scalable reactor, and that's what he's off doing.” “And at the end of the day, Kevin Ryan (founder of AlleyCorp) asked me, ‘Is this one of the most incredible humans you've met?’ And the answer is yes, of course, and we backed him”

Excited to welcome Brian Cummings to Valar Atomics as VP of Nuclear Operations! Brian has spent 20+ years both regulating and running nuclear facilities across the Navy, NRC, DOE, and new advanced nuclear companies. At INL, Brian ran the nuclear safety oversight program and led nuclear operations for the TREAT reactor facility. At Kairos, he helped to develop the Hermes PSAR and led the execution of their TRISO plant. Brian has chosen to take the next step in advanced nuclear and join us on our mission to make energy cheaper and more abundant in the universe than ever before. Grateful to have him on the team!

Another PO signed today. That’s $200k revenue in 8 weeks. Our electronics are now in drones, interceptors, and robots. Maybe most proud of all is we had our first repeat customer. Hardware is hard, but building a good product and having happy customers makes it all worth it.

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Mission statement

NEW podcast episode is up! "How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Many More" Kevin Ryan is one of the leading entrepreneurs and investors in New York. Often called the “Godfather of NYC tech,” he is the founder and CEO of AlleyCorp, a New York based venture capital firm that incubates and invests across healthcare, AI and software, consumer tech, deep tech, and more. Kevin is also the co-founder of several notable companies including MongoDB, Business Insider, Zola, Gilt Groupe, and Transcend Therapeutics. Earlier in his career, Kevin was the CEO of DoubleClick, which he helped grow from a 20-person startup to a publicly-traded company with more than 1,500 employees. Please enjoy!

I was invited to recreate the iconic 1995 "Old Glory Insurance" skit from @nbcsnl. Correction: I invited myself. Because a 1995 robot insurance commercial desperately needed a 2026 update. Back then, the joke was that robots were coming for us and nobody would insure against it. Thirty years later, @koop_ai has helped pioneer the robot insurance category, risk-controlling and insuring roughly a quarter of the U.S. robotics market. That gave us a front-row seat to something nobody had quantified before: what actually makes a robot risky, and what makes it trustworthy? Today we're putting the data behind that question out into the world. IN BOTS WE TRUST 2026 is the culmination of five years of underwriting robots in the real world, and our attempt to give the robotics industry a shared, quantifiable way to build and prove trust. 392 companies. Five years of quotes, policies and claims. Hundreds of thousands of data points. One question: can we trust the robots? The answer might surprise you. P.S. More importantly, how did we do with the skit?

In SF for the week. Excited to talk robots with some new and old friends.

This one's a must listen! 🎧 Kevin Ryan recently sat down with the legendary @tferriss for a wide-ranging conversation on tech, building companies, and spotting 10-year trends. Check it out in the links below!