@fortworthchris: Tomorrow's episode is with Adam Blake (@adamblake), Founder of Mavria and former DOGE team lead at the Department of En…

Tomorrow's episode is with Adam Blake (@adamblake), Founder of Mavria and former DOGE team lead at the Department of Energy. Adam built a commercial solar company to 2,000 projects, sold a software company to Vista Equity, and in early 2025 got on a plane to Washington. Two executive orders ended up assigning work to his team. One of those orders created a nuclear reactor pilot program at the Department of Energy. I asked him how it actually worked. "So this order called out this crazy ambitious goal of let's get three new reactors turned critical by July 4th, 2026. So this was a goal at the time, by the way, that everybody thought was impossible." "This executive order was also unique in the sense that it assigned implementation to the DOGE team at the DOE, which was me. So that allowed my team to really try and remove barriers and drive this as fast as we possibly could." "This is American entrepreneurship and capitalism at its best. You had these incredible entrepreneurs that were given a clear road. They organized private sector capital. This is not government picking winners or losers." In this clip, Adam explains what the DOE can do that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can't, and why he says these guys crushed it.