Saronic's 4 Co-Founders on Building a $9.25B Shipbuilder | Part III

Saronic's 4 Co-Founders on Building a $9.25B Shipbuilder | Part III

From Sourcery by Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

September 10, 2026 · 60 min

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The episode features the co-founders of Saronic discussing their rapid growth and the technology behind their autonomous shipbuilding company.

Dino Mavrookas, Rob Lehman, Doug Lambert, and Vibhav Altekar are the 4 Co-Founders of Saronic, the autonomous maritime company that has gone from founding in 2022 to raising ~$2.6B at a $9.25B valuation in just 4 years. The founding team brings together deep experience across defense, maritime autonomy, engineering, and investing: Dino spent 11 years as a Navy SEAL before joining Vista Equity Partners; Doug has built maritime autonomy systems since 2012; Rob spent 21 years in the Marine Corps before working across major defense contractors and startups; and Vib was one of Anduril’s earliest engineers. In Part III of our Saronic series, we sit down with all 4 founders to go deeper into the business and technology behind its rapid rise and the demand driving it. We cover America’s growing shipbuilding gap with China, why Saronic is investing $3B+ into Port Alpha, scaling autonomous ship production, rebuilding the U.S. maritime supply chain, defense acquisition reform, hardware-software co-design, AI at sea, and what happens when autonomous fleets scale from a handful of vessels to hundreds. Dino Mavrookas: https://x.com/mavrookasd Doug Lambert…

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Host: Molly O’Shea

Guests: Dino Mavrookas, Rob Lehman, Doug Lambert, Vibhav Altekar

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Organizations: Saronic, Vista Equity Partners, Anduril

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