Travis Godwin Good, PhD (IridiumEagle on X) is a deep tech contrarian who previously made waves in biotech, where he pioneered approaches using machine learning and computational chemistry for drug discovery (ultimately selling the platform his company developed to SC Johnson which now uses it for biopesticide discovery) and in transportation, where he implemented the world’s first mathematically optimal freight movement planner, an innovation that sped up Union Pacific (the US’ largest railroad) by over 2mph+ leading to a $400 million annual ROI on a $6 million investment. Travis’ current project, Ambient (ambient.xyz, ambient_xyz on X) might be characterized as “OpenAI if it were truly open and powered by AI Bitcoin”; it’s an upcoming useful PoW L1 that overturns the tentpole assumptions made by CryptoAI protocols for the last 8 years. Travis holds a PhD in IT from Univ of Nebraska @ Omaha and an AB from Harvard from which he graduated Magna Cum Laude.