Chris Power

13 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 18, 2022 by Chris Power · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Nov 18, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Power: Legacy machine shops suffer from extreme, non-standardized hardware variability
“Most legacy machine shops have one of every machine ever made. And even within, you know, they have 20 machines, five of them might be the same, but even those five are set up a completely different way.”
Chris Power Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 52:59 The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
Nov 18, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Power: Reliable supply chains will cut aerospace manufacturing costs by 30-50%
“Most of the products will be able to drop their manufacturing costs by like 30 to 50%, not because of cheaper parts, but because of the reliability and the ability to compress schedule around that reliability.”
Chris Power Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 45:56 The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
Nov 18, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chris Power: Hadrian gives factory technicians equity tied to software engineer tiers
“And I think we're probably the only factory on the planet outside of SpaceX that is giving everyone in these roles, you know, the same tier of equity as the best software engineers have, you know every technician in Hadrian, whether you're packing boxes or whe…”
Chris Power Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 32:36 The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
Nov 18, 2022 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Power: Space Technology Will Function as Infrastructure, Not Have a Killer App
“No, I don't think there's a killer app and I don't think there will be because it's like you know, does your average consumer, You know, know about AWS, not really like outside of our technology domain, but like can any of the stuff that they love exist withou…”
Chris Power Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 1:08:08 The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
Nov 18, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Power: Microgravity R&D Enables Superior Medical and Materials Research
“So much of the like cancer or genetic research is. Can only be performed or can be performed like far, far better in terms of materials or chemical research in space. And I think there, if there's a major pharma breakthrough where it's like, oh, we cured the l…”
Chris Power Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 1:09:02 The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
Nov 18, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Power: 20,000 to 30,000 small businesses form U.S. defense base
“So there's something like 20 to 30,000 small businesses that make up the majority of the defense industrial base.”
Chris Power Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 10:28 The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
Nov 18, 2022 negative
Assertion Partly supported
The average US defense manufacturing owner-operator is 62 years old
“Average age of a worker is like 55. Average age of an owner-operator who's a small business owner that is actually, you know, needed to function in the business is 62.”
Chris Power Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 11:46 The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
Nov 18, 2022
Insight
Hourly pay structures prevent open knowledge sharing among skilled machinists
“There is no, like, stack overflow for machining, because I think it's basically a function of the fact that manufacturing has been an hourly workforce for such a long time, even the highest skill positions, because then you get this, like, Weird localized comp…”
Chris Power Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 33:27 The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
May 1, 2025 positive
Opinion
Young software engineers now prefer defense tech startups over Big Tech
“Three years ago for very young talent or software engineers, it was like convincing them that manufacturing or national security was incredibly important. And now I think if you're starting a startup, I think if you're a software engineer, actually most of wha…”
Chris Power May 1, 2025 ▶ 9:54 How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance
Sep 29, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Power: US no longer manufactures capital equipment for domestic factories
“We don't even make the CapEx that goes into the factories in the US anymore. Like it's all German, South Korean, Japanese or whatever, and they're controlled products.”
Chris Power Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 22:28 Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
Sep 29, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Power: Most highly skilled U.S. manufacturing workers are 62 years old
“And then the real underlying problem is my thesis is that basically everyone that's highly skilled in any manufacturing domain is basically 62.”
Chris Power Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 8:45 Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
Sep 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Power: Defense procurement must concentrate scale among four to five companies
“I just think people forget manufacturing is this like real brute force equation where I think you just have to pick like Four to five companies and let them have at it at a scale that's never been seen before and let them figure it out.”
Chris Power Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 10:13 Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
Sep 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Power: High levels of automation are sole path to replace skilled labor
“And the only way to replace that skill in my mind is basically high levels of automation to kind of make those jobs simpler so that a new workforce can ramp up in a month.”
Chris Power Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 9:05 Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
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