Cloud seeding isn’t new, but Rainmaker is giving it a second life. On today’s episode, Augustus Doricko, founder and CEO of Rainmaker, joins Eric to explain how his company uses drones, radar, and remote sensing to make it rain on command.

Augustus outlines how Rainmaker's technology solves the attribution problem that has long haunted cloud seeding, and why their $25M Series A marks the beginning of a new infrastructure layer for the American West. We also discuss the company’s long-term ambition: building programmable weather systems to green deserts, stabilize water supply for agriculture and industry, and compete with China's state-run weather engineering programs.

Finally, we covered 11x’s CEO transition, OpenAI’s decision to remain under nonprofit control, Databricks’ possible $1B acquisition of Neon, and Anduril’s newest buy and portable edge computing system.