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▶ 15:00 · $FOUNDERS-FUND · $RADIANT · $PANTHALASSA · Panthalassa explores stranded energy for industrial applications
episode briefing
Joe Lonsdale

SpaceX’s Secret, Nuclear's Rebirth, and the AI Power Crisis

2026-06-05 · 6 company · 7 thematic
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scott nolan

Partner at Founders Fund, where he invests in engineering-driven companies across sectors including biotech, energy, infrastructure, and transportation. He was previously an early employee at SpaceX.

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“invested in a company called Panthalassa. These were really about stranded energy sources.”
—scott nolan

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now playing · $FOUNDERS-FUND · $RADIANT · $PANTHALASSA
$SPCX···bullish· highscott nolan
SpaceX cost-time tradeoff culture is template for hard tech scaling
SpaceX's early culture of optimizing cost-adjusted performance over perfection — spending extra money only on critical-path schedule pulls — is the operating model General Matter…
$GENERAL-MATTERbullish· high· posscott nolan
Scott Nolan building US uranium enrichment to unlock nuclear scaling
The US has zero domestic commercial uranium enrichment capacity since 2013, creating a critical bottleneck for advanced reactors that need HALEU fuel; General Matter is building a…
$FOUNDERS-FUNDbullish· high· posscott nolan
Founders Fund nuclear thesis: enrichment is the missing supply chain link
After years of investing in reactor companies (Radiant, Crusoe, Panthalassa), Founders Fund identified that every advanced reactor startup faced the same unsolved problem: no dome…
$RADIANTbullish· medium· posscott nolan
Radiant microreactors target stranded diesel markets in remote areas
Radiant addresses stranded demand — remote communities like Alaskan villages paying extreme diesel costs — where microreactors can compete immediately without waiting for grid-sca…
$PANTHALASSAneutral· low· posscott nolan
Panthalassa explores stranded energy for industrial applications
Early Founders Fund energy portfolio company focused on stranded energy sources, part of the thesis evolution toward nuclear fuel supply chain.
$CRUSOEbullish· medium· posscott nolan
Founders Fund backed Crusoe as a stranded-energy investment
Nolan said Founders Fund's engineering-driven investing led it to Crusoe in the late 2010s as one of the firm's bets on stranded energy supply.