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Citizen Podcast

277 | Michael Thompson

Citizen Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Society & Culture, Education

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Co-founder of Reinvent Capital and board member of Joby Aviation Michael Thompson joins the show to talk Trump's tariffs and the tech advances in aircrafts.



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0:00.0

Welcome aboard the Turkish Airlines podcast channel.

0:07.2

Are you ready for a new adventure?

0:11.0

Merhabah passengers, this is your captain speaking.

0:13.6

Welcome aboard the inaugural episode of the Wideen Your World podcast, part of the Turkish Airlines series.

0:25.6

Thank you. podcast, part of the Turkish airline series. I think Ohio is going to be a huge beneficiary of this sort of re-industrialization of the U.S.

0:32.5

And I think they're positioned incredibly well. They've got really smart leadership.

0:35.7

The thing that gets me extremely excited is

0:38.0

making this technology real to the average American, to the average person. And this is like a

0:43.9

beautiful, full circle narrative, in my opinion. In 1911, you know, the aircraft was invented in 1903,

0:51.5

so it was only eight years old. A gentleman by the name of Harry Atwood,

0:56.1

who was trained at the Wright Brothers Flying School in Dayton, Ohio. And Dayton, Ohio is where

1:01.7

our facility is going to be, and it's already being constructed. He flew off the White House lawn.

1:08.1

And President Taft was standing in the South Portico watching this. And it's a

1:13.4

beautiful picture. It's an amazing picture. And that was the moment that for many Americans,

1:20.3

that air travel became like tangible and real. Let's go.

1:32.7

Welcome to Citizen.

1:37.9

We got a special guest today, Michael Thompson, co-founder of Reinvent, and you're a board member of Joby Aviation in Oaklo, which is a small modular reactor company.

1:44.0

How's it going?

1:45.4

Doing great.

1:46.2

Thanks for having me.

1:47.1

Yeah, where are you today?

1:48.8

Miami.

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