Saronic can cut the cost of building a ship in the United States in half — from $300 million to under $150 million — not by paying people less but by investing in product design, manufacturing processes, and new shipyards built from first principles.
Dino argues that by designing ships for manufacturability from the ground up, investing in modern shipyards, and paying workers more with equity, Saronic can halve the cost of a US-built ship to under $150 million — reversing the 5-6x cost disadvantage versus China. ✦ AI generated
Dino Mavrikis · All-In Podcast · 2026-08-06 · original ↗
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The cost of building ships in the United States. And the United States just isn't competitive in the commercial market. And again, we can go through the specifics and what happened over time, five to six times the cost of building a ship in China. We think just by investing in product and processes and new shipyards, we can cut the cost of a ship in the United States in half. So if you have a ship that costs $300 million, we can get that under $150 million. And that's not by simply just paying people less. We're paying people more, but we're investing in our product. We're investing in the process. We're designing the product to be built that way in the first place.
verbatim transcript · starts at 42:21
42:21to be an incredible boom town. Oh, it's going to be incredible. SpaceX, you know, and I mentioned earlier like the cost of building ships in the United States. And the United States just isn't competitive in the commercial market. And again, we can go through the specifics and what happened over time, five to six times the cost of building a ship in China. We think just by investing in product and
42:46processes and new shipyards, we can cut the cost of a ship in the United States in half. So if you have a ship that costs $300 million, we can get that under $150 million. And that's not by simply just paying people less. We're paying people more, but we're investing in our product. We're investing in the process. We're designing the product to be built that way in the first place.
43:10So, we're making the investments that are needed for long-term sustainability and to rebuild the workforce. >> All right. If people want to come work with you, VIB, how can they apply their career page and what are you looking for? What what talent do you need to come do this incredibly patriotic duty and go work at Seronic? >> Yeah, I mean sur uh we have a careers page. Um you can you reach out on
43:32Twitter, LinkedIn, whatever you want. Um we're we're hiring pretty aggressively right now. I would say that, you know, the biggest thing, you know, we look for generally speaking is, you know, especially in 2026 when, you know, Chad GBT and Claude are getting so much better every year. Um, it's pretty important right now to be fairly, you know, neuroplastic. Um, you know, be ready to adapt for what the future looks
43:54like. Computing is changing. Um, you know, there's there's going to be agents that can help you on the manufacturing floor to to assemble faster if you have an issue. uh there's all these digital systems that are they're kind of changing the paradigm here. I mean, when we first got to Golfcraft um in in done in Louisiana, a lot of the processes were were pretty much pen and pen and