Vib Altikar
Co-founder, Saronic · Former Anduril
aka Vib
“historically, shipbuilding, the design is bifurcated from the builder. ... 70% of sequence critical components on some Navy ships are sole source suppliers.”
“With Portal we get the luxury of like greenfield designing what the manufacturing plant for ships should look like. ... optimize the design as ship for the yard and the design of the yard for the ship.”
Vib Altikar
One-line summary: Saronic co-founder; first-party source on vertical design+yard, sole-source prime supply chain, and Port Alpha as hardware/software co-design.
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On china-shipbuilding-gap-to-autonomous-naval-mass, defense-industrial-base-magazine-depth:
"historically, shipbuilding, the design is bifurcated from the builder. ... 70% of sequence critical components on some Navy ships are sole source suppliers." — 2026-08-15-all-in-podcast-saronic-founders-autonomous-warships-chinas (2026-08-05)
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On china-shipbuilding-gap-to-autonomous-naval-mass:
"With Portal we get the luxury of like greenfield designing what the manufacturing plant for ships should look like. ... optimize the design as ship for the yard and the design of the yard for the ship." — 2026-08-15-all-in-podcast-saronic-founders-autonomous-warships-chinas (2026-08-05)
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