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:

(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.

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