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S3 Episode 84, September 3rd, 2025

Episode 84: Alex Deslauriers, FireSwarm

Wildfires don’t sleep, so why should our firefighting technology? In this episode of The Capitalist Hippie Podcast, host Marco Pimentel sits down with Alex Deslauriers, co-founder of FireSwarm, to explore how a harrowing personal wildfire experience and a background in aerospace engineering sparked a bold new approach to fire suppression.

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