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“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Sampriti Bhattacharyya
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Sampriti Bhattacharyya
@sampritibh
CEO & Founder @navierboat 🌊Roboticist🤖Ex @ NASA🚀Subcritical nuclear reactors @ Fermilab ⚛️Aerospace @ OSU. MIT MechE PhD'17⚙️
- Thanks @elonmusk for not only building a number of world changing companies, doing the impossible but for inspiring generations of builders to work on hard problems that matter and raising humanity’s collective ambition 🫶 (& for making time to fly the @navierboat!)🚀🚀🚀🚤🌊
- Robotaxis on water will be a thing. Captains cost ~$40–$50/hr - nearly 50% of water taxi ops. It’s not scalable, and there aren’t enough captains. Electric foiling robotaxis are 10x cheaper to operate, smoother to ride, & can dock at any marina. It’s one reason I started Navier.
00:00 - If you can figure out how to get to America by yourself after writing hundreds of emails and make it work starting with two hundred bucks in the pocket - you can figure out a LOT of things in life. That’s 20 yr old me. Day #2 in the US. First time riding a bike! (Fermilab
- One more getting ready to ship—this one’s headed to someone seriously cool 🚀😉🌊
- In just 2.5 years, we went from prototype to delivering the first N30, and spent only $15M to set up production and get boats out —a new record in hardtech. We did it in the most unconventional way. There’s magic in a small, scrappy team with a hardcore work ethic.
00:00 - “My will to survive exceeds almost everybody else's will to kill me.” - Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO Feels right.
- Robotaxis change everything. Why sell a car for $50K when you can make $200K+ per year operating it yourself? Payback in under a year. The future is fleets run by the OEMs themselves. @Tesla won’t just build cars. My bet is it will run the largest robotaxi network in US.
- Don’t just build machines; build beautiful, powerful machines.
- While we wait for flying cars, here’s our flying boat - @navierboat N30! Alameda to downtown SF is now 12 mins and I love the stunning view of the city and the Bay Bridge! Foiling across the Bay (and skipping the traffic, obviously!)
00:00 - Replying to @rookisaacmanI have a lot respect for @elonmusk as a builder. He turns the ‘impossible’ into ‘slightly delayed.’ Very few companies (if any) match the pace of innovation and execution at Musk’s companies. Any hardcore builder- not an armchair critic - understands and appreciates that.
- Super excited to partner with @FourSeasons Lake Austin Private Residences and deliver the N30—the most advanced boat on Lake Austin. Couldn’t ask for a better brand to collaborate with to bring luxury, sustainable water transit to reality. This is just the beginning!
