Hadrian

“You don't need a hardware or manufacturing background to come into a business like Hadrian or SpaceX or Anduril to be able to, you know, be a competitive candidate or create value, you know, with your software skills.”

“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.”

“Trying to get it down to single threaded, like the person that's building the automation for this part of the product is capable of actually doing that job. And it's forced to do that job every couple of weeks and like relearn the real Real user pain is, is an…”

“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…”

“You can't sit in a room for three years and try and build an automated factory is because you only really know what's actually, what actually matters and what doesn't matter at all is by running a factory and then being very prepared to rip up off your roadmap…”

“I think the broad risk of Hadrian is that it's just unbelievably complicated, and if one piece doesn't work, then the whole thing doesn't work.”

“It's going to be amazing in a couple of years to see, you know, a bunch of like engineering grads you know, tooling around at their garage and like, Seeing, seeing Google style startups happen without forty million dollars in funding and just to get off the gr…”

“We build software that is highly process driven, where we can throw someone new to that role in there. Within 30 to 90 days, depending on the role, they can be trained up into that and have enough scaffolding that if they just kind of follow the instructions, …”

“No factory on the planet has observability. So you can't simply, and maybe like Foxconn does but you can't simply throw up in a dashboard and go, what is my uptime? Where are the costs for this job? How much labor did we spend on it? It's all kind of swags and…”

“Designed and launched the actual building and all the construction in three months, and then sat around waiting for permits and energy for six to nine months and probably had to put more documentation together to convince Southern California Edison to give me …”

“We built a 100,000 square foot in LA, and then we're going to launch two new facilities next year, which are about half a million square foot each, and then we'll keep expanding to every state”

“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…”

“Even the basics, like some of the exquisite stuff can only be made in a certain state to feed the defense ecosystem because all the other states banned it or like they're literally in facilities that got certified 50 years ago and you could like, you literally…”