Above Water with Vessev

"We’re like a flying machine company."

- Max Olson

Peter Thiel famously stated, “we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Thiel needs to look outside of Silicon Valley all the way to a small port town in New Zealand, Marsden Point. It is here amongst a single lumberyard, dairy farm and port, a small group of engineers are creating a new category of travel. Vessev is an autonomous hydrofoil shipping company, and their state of the art boats glide above water at speeds once thought impossible for a freight ship.

In this episode of Wild Hearts, founder Max Olson talks about how he went from failing papers in his first year of university to starting a company, and Vessev’s long voyage ahead.

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