Short answer: Ryan Aytay says CEO and founder Peter Morales started at MIT Lincoln Lab and worked on the F-35, then formed Code Metal about two years ago with cofounder Alex around the idea of making hardware as programmable as software.
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From Episode 48: The Code Running Your Plane Was Written Decades Ago. This Startup Proves It Still Works., starting at 16:12.
Jordan Metzner [16:11]: Okay. Awesome. Tell us just maybe one more question on just like kinda how the company got started and found its niche in the space a little bit.
Ryan Aytay [16:19]: So Peter Morales, who's our CEO and founder, worked in a number of different places. Started his career with MIT Lincoln Lab, worked in a number of different things, worked on the F-35 and some simulation environments. I believe worked at Microsoft and a couple other scenarios. And I think found himself, doing a lot of academia and, teaching of some of the things that we've talked about here today. And I think really just had a concept and an idea of, like, this concept of mission critical and, how do I make even, like, hardware as programmable as software? It was kind of the original thesis or North Star vision. And I think, CodeMetal was formed from that like roughly two years ago. And so, ever since then, I think he's done a really fantastic job along with the rest of the team and his cofounder Alex to ultimately bring, a lot of these things to life and put them into use with really important, mission critical scenarios like, wargaming. Like, we know that we need to be thinking about these things. It's really just a planning and preparation exercise that, of course, you would want your military to be focused on.
Ryan Aytay [17:22]: And then, it becomes relevant. Think about it's relevant automotive, medical device, financial systems, like a lot of these things have become fragile over time. And you can't just assume that, hey, I'm just gonna release, said AI platform to go solve it for me because as we know, sometimes these things have, hallucinations or other problems that occur.
Jordan Metzner [17:43]: Yeah. Awesome background. Great story. I can't believe how much progress the company has made with, these types of industries that obviously historically move slow and take a long time to work with that, you've gotten such progress in such a short period of time. So that's that's really impressive. Great little history, Sam. Should we jump into the news?
