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“We are the only company in the market that started as a tech company with the goal of delivering capability to the DoD through boats,” says Dino Mavrookas, the other co-founder and a former Navy SEAL. “Others are boat companies, trying to adopt new technology to deliver capability. We’ve already seen from the self-driving industry that when you try to adapt new software for legacy hardware it does not scale.