{"id":34367,"date":"2017-02-10T04:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-hyperloops-best-known-engineer-brogan-bambrogan-is-back-in-the-race-with-his-own-company"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:40:45","slug":"the-hyperloops-best-known-engineer-brogan-bambrogan-is-back-in-the-race-with-his-own-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-hyperloops-best-known-engineer-brogan-bambrogan-is-back-in-the-race-with-his-own-company","title":{"rendered":"The Hyperloop\u2019s Best-Known Engineer\u2014Brogan BamBrogan\u2014Is Back in the Race With His Own Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brogan BamBrogan has jumped back into the race to transform transportation. The engineer, who left Hyperloop One<\/a> amid a wild legal battle last summer, has launched his own effort to build a network of tubes and pods to fling people about the planet at near-supersonic speeds. It\u2019s called Arrivo (Italian for \u201carrived\u201d), and it plans to put you\u2014or at least your stuff\u2014in a working hyperloop<\/a> in just three years.<\/p>\n

As CEO, BamBrogan (yes, that\u2019s his legal name) says the new Los Angeles\u2013based company has lined up funding and is in talks to produce hyperloop systems for a variety of clients. Without revealing where those projects are, he says he plans to start by moving cargo, a good way to prove the system works and iron out the kinks without killing anybody, all while bringing in some revenue.<\/p>\n

BamBrogan is a respected engineer who spent years at SpaceX before cofounding Hyperloop One with venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar in 2014. In July, he and three coworkers sued the company<\/a>, alleging shenanigans like breach of fiduciary duty, violating labor laws, wrongful termination, and infliction of emotional distress. Hyperloop One countersued<\/a>, accusing BamBrogan et al. of an attempted mutiny. In November, the aggrieved parties reached a confidential settlement and dropped the suits, which involved details like an overpaid fianc\u00e9e, drunken shouting, a nightclub bouncer, and \u2026 um \u2026 a noose<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Brogan BamBrogan has jumped back into the race to transform transportation. The engineer, who left Hyperloop One amid a wild legal battle last summer, has launched his own effort to build a network of tubes and pods to fling people about the planet at near-supersonic speeds. It\u2019s called Arrivo (Italian for \u201carrived\u201d), and it plans [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58778,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34367\/revisions\/58778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}