Dan Magy, co-founder and CEO of Firestorm Labs, talks the new drone and logistics tech at Firestorm, his experiences in startups and defense tech, and more.

Chapters:

(0:00 ) Intro

(1:40 ) Changing the Podcast Name

(6:26 ) Firestorm Products

(9:20 ) Additive Manufacturing & The XCell

(14:34 ) Original Vision vs. Customer Requests

(18:17 ) Learning Appropriations and the End User

(20:44 ) Act Like You Belong

(22:34 ) Dan’s Previous Ventures

(28:20 ) Personal Investments & Mistakes

(34:47 ) Drones & Laser Landscape

(39:00 ) Product Strategies and Ideas

(43:13 ) More Drone Companies

(50:58 ) How Steve Got Into Startups

(57:26 ) Steve Story: Meeting Patrick Mahomes

(59:40 ) Some Favorite Backgrounds of Employees

(1:02:50 ) DoD: “The Mother of Enterprise Sales”

(1:05:53 ) The Crazy COVID ZIRP Era

(1:09:07 ) Ukraine & Europe

(01:13:57 ) Firestorm in 2025 Plans

(01:20:36 ) Outro

Dan Magy co-founded Firestorm Labs in May 2022 and is currently serving as CEO. In July 2022, he joined Bonsai Robotics as a Chief Strategy Advisor. Dan is also a Board Member at Beyond Capital since June 2022. In 2016, Dan founded Citadel Defense Company in 2016, which was later acquired by Blue Halo in November 2021.

Follow Dan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danmagy/
Dan's Company (Firestorm Labs): https://www.launchfirestorm.com/

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