Ti Morse @ti_morse

My second interview with Augustus Doricko (@ADoricko) founder of Rainmaker

Over the past 15 months, the Rainmaker team has grown by more than 7x, started vertically integrating by building drones, radar systems, and other hardware in-house, and are now scaling cloud-seeding operations in multiple countries around the world.

Link to the interview on YouTube in the comment below!

0:42 Pendleton experience
7:50 Ernest Shackleton
10:10 Typical week for Augustus in 2025
11:46 Working yourself to death
14:03 Dealing with investors
17:58 Minimizing dilution with creative financial structures
21:33 Why Augustus loves pain & exhaustion
24:26 Focus for the next 12 months
28:16 Deciding to vertically integrate
32:00 Throwing new hires into the deep end
35:36 Finding the right mission
39:07 Selling to governments
42:11 Working with Florida
47:37 Making tradeoffs to build a great company

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