Scott Nolan - SpaceX, Founders Fund, and Rebuilding American Uranium Enrichment
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
- Published
- April 14, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 15m
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- Last updated
- Apr 17, 2026
Discusses business, investing, technology.
Summary
Scott Nolan spent 12 years at Founders Fund looking for the most important problems that no one else was funding. Then he found a problem so critical, and so ignored, that he couldn't find a company to back. So he started one. General Matter is rebuilding US uranium enrichment. The United States was the world leader in enrichment through the 1980s and the…
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Scott Nolan spent 12 years at Founders Fund looking for the most important problems that no one else was funding. Then he found a problem so critical, and so ignored, that he couldn't find a company to back. So he started one. General Matter is rebuilding US uranium enrichment. The United States was the world leader in enrichment through the 1980s and then stopped entirely. Today roughly a quarter of US enriched uranium comes from Russia, a ban on those imports takes full effect in 2028, and the
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- business
- investing
- technology