Hyperloop One

My guest today, here's a leader, says they struggle with imposter syndrome and tells them that it is great news.

Adrian Koehler has spent 15 years coaching founders and technical leaders, among them the co-founder and CTO of Virgin Hyperloop One.

His view is that the feeling arrives because you are reaching past what you've already proved you can do.

He has eight steps for taking it apart.

Nonetheless, Hyperloops were announced for the United States, India, Saudi Arabia, Italy, and Canada, despite the whole idea having been thoroughly debunked by scientists and engineers from the day of its announcement.

Hyperloop One managed to raise about $450 million from investors and build a small test track near Las Vegas.

Another startup named Hyperloop TT secured $108 million in investment.

According to Bloomberg, Hyperloop One employed more than 200 people at its peak, but laid them all off in December 2023 after failing to reinvent transit.

Its biggest investor, Dubai Ports, apparently owns the remaining intellectual property.

Carlo van de Weyher of the Technical University of Eindhoven described the Hyperloop as a very complicated solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist.