Ep. 12 | “Schrambo” Ships: AI, Climate Tech, and Advice for Founders | Steve Schramm

General Magic & The Soul of Tech · Oct 28, 2026 · 50m · transcript

Steve Schramm is a builder who has spent his career on the far side of the big bets. He came up through HP and McDonnell Douglas and the telecom standards world before joining General Magic, where Mike remembers Steve’s “hard driving, we gotta ship it” style, which earned him the nickname “Schrambo.” Those years taught him to push for results, and he still does. Today, he brings the same urgency to his mentoring of climate-tech founders, as a lead mentor at Stanford's StartX, and adviser of about a dozen startups. Steve talks about the agentic safeguards built into Telescript, his personal AI…