Jack Crivici-Kramer

For our third and final story, this is wild. Rainmaker just raised $25 million to control the weather and make it rain.

Because business models are like water. You got to let them flow. Now, yetis, Jack and I would like to introduce you to a young man named Augustus Dorico. This guy's definitely going to heaven. Because he may be the most religiously trained human being we have ever heard of. He studied under a Catholic priest, a Jewish Orthodox rabbi, a Sunni imam, and a Buddhist monk.

Because business models are like water. You got to let them flow. Now, yetis, Jack and I would like to introduce you to a young man named Augustus Dorico. This guy's definitely going to heaven. Because he may be the most religiously trained human being we have ever heard of. He studied under a Catholic priest, a Jewish Orthodox rabbi, a Sunni imam, and a Buddhist monk.

Because business models are like water. You got to let them flow. Now, yetis, Jack and I would like to introduce you to a young man named Augustus Dorico. This guy's definitely going to heaven. Because he may be the most religiously trained human being we have ever heard of. He studied under a Catholic priest, a Jewish Orthodox rabbi, a Sunni imam, and a Buddhist monk.

This guy isn't just close to God. He may think he is God because his startup controls the weather. It's called Rainmaker. Rainmaker. They use cloud seeding technology that sounds very exciting because they fly a drone up into a cloud and cause that cloud to rain. Yeah, and Jack and I should sprinkle on some context here. Some clouds don't rain. And that's a shame if you really need it to rain.

This guy isn't just close to God. He may think he is God because his startup controls the weather. It's called Rainmaker. Rainmaker. They use cloud seeding technology that sounds very exciting because they fly a drone up into a cloud and cause that cloud to rain. Yeah, and Jack and I should sprinkle on some context here. Some clouds don't rain. And that's a shame if you really need it to rain.

This guy isn't just close to God. He may think he is God because his startup controls the weather. It's called Rainmaker. Rainmaker. They use cloud seeding technology that sounds very exciting because they fly a drone up into a cloud and cause that cloud to rain. Yeah, and Jack and I should sprinkle on some context here. Some clouds don't rain. And that's a shame if you really need it to rain.

Because also clouds, they get in the way of the sun. So if you're going to be there, you may as well rain a little bit. Agreed. So cloud seeding basically sprinkles chemicals right up in those clouds to condense the moisture. And that causes water in the cloud to become so heavy that it falls out of the cloud as rain or snow. And this founder, Augustus Dorico, he was actually a Thiel fellow.

Because also clouds, they get in the way of the sun. So if you're going to be there, you may as well rain a little bit. Agreed. So cloud seeding basically sprinkles chemicals right up in those clouds to condense the moisture. And that causes water in the cloud to become so heavy that it falls out of the cloud as rain or snow. And this founder, Augustus Dorico, he was actually a Thiel fellow.

Because also clouds, they get in the way of the sun. So if you're going to be there, you may as well rain a little bit. Agreed. So cloud seeding basically sprinkles chemicals right up in those clouds to condense the moisture. And that causes water in the cloud to become so heavy that it falls out of the cloud as rain or snow. And this founder, Augustus Dorico, he was actually a Thiel fellow.

So he was paid a hundred grand by the billionaire, Peter Thiel, to drop out of college and get into entrepreneurship. And this is the news. Rainmaker has now raised over $30 million. So they're making it rain constantly. Both ways. This is a deluge on-demand startup. But get this, Yetis. Rainmaking, like kind of playing God, is actually one of the oldest technologies we cover on the show.

So he was paid a hundred grand by the billionaire, Peter Thiel, to drop out of college and get into entrepreneurship. And this is the news. Rainmaker has now raised over $30 million. So they're making it rain constantly. Both ways. This is a deluge on-demand startup. But get this, Yetis. Rainmaking, like kind of playing God, is actually one of the oldest technologies we cover on the show.

So he was paid a hundred grand by the billionaire, Peter Thiel, to drop out of college and get into entrepreneurship. And this is the news. Rainmaker has now raised over $30 million. So they're making it rain constantly. Both ways. This is a deluge on-demand startup. But get this, Yetis. Rainmaking, like kind of playing God, is actually one of the oldest technologies we cover on the show.

And this is what Jack and I find fascinating. Despite being one of the oldest technologies, it still is not fully commercialized. Rainmaking was invented in 1946, after World War II in Schenectady, New York. Lovely Schenectady, where my dad is from. And the inventor of cloud seeding, which is what it's technically called... is the brother of Kurt Vonnegut, the incredible author.

And this is what Jack and I find fascinating. Despite being one of the oldest technologies, it still is not fully commercialized. Rainmaking was invented in 1946, after World War II in Schenectady, New York. Lovely Schenectady, where my dad is from. And the inventor of cloud seeding, which is what it's technically called... is the brother of Kurt Vonnegut, the incredible author.

And this is what Jack and I find fascinating. Despite being one of the oldest technologies, it still is not fully commercialized. Rainmaking was invented in 1946, after World War II in Schenectady, New York. Lovely Schenectady, where my dad is from. And the inventor of cloud seeding, which is what it's technically called... is the brother of Kurt Vonnegut, the incredible author.

So add it all up, and we humans have had the ability, the technology to control the rain longer than we've had the technologies of the internet, the personal computer, or the Pop-Tart. The New York Times wrote about cloud seeding 53 years ago with this headline, the US is using rainmaking as a weapon.

So add it all up, and we humans have had the ability, the technology to control the rain longer than we've had the technologies of the internet, the personal computer, or the Pop-Tart. The New York Times wrote about cloud seeding 53 years ago with this headline, the US is using rainmaking as a weapon.

So add it all up, and we humans have had the ability, the technology to control the rain longer than we've had the technologies of the internet, the personal computer, or the Pop-Tart. The New York Times wrote about cloud seeding 53 years ago with this headline, the US is using rainmaking as a weapon.

That's right, Jack, the Vietnam War, apparently we were secretly seeding clouds over North Vietnam to try to give our soldiers the advantage, although I think that backfired. Well, today, China's government happens to be the largest cloud seeding operation on planet Earth. And it's actually controlled by the government. It's like a government service. It's the people's rain clouds over there.