Bryon Hargis

Co-founder & CEO, Castelion · 1 appearance on the record.

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Bryon Hargis is the co-founder and CEO of Castelion, a defense startup developing mass-producible, low-cost hypersonic strike weapons including the Blackbeard missile. Before founding Castelion, he led government sales and national security space initiatives at SpaceX and spent over a decade at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

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Castelion will leave Los Angeles due to electrical grid and permitting issues

“This for us is like going to be a reason that, that we will end up not manufacturing in LA.”

Bryon Hargis May 1, 2025 ▶ 5:25 How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance

Disclosure

Banks initially categorized missile startup Castelion alongside porn and gambling

“We couldn't even get a bank account. We tried to open a bank account and they, we just got dumped into like, well, you're basically the same as porn and gambling. So we're not going to give you a bank account.”

Bryon Hargis May 1, 2025 ▶ 12:23 How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance

Insight

Factory equipment depreciates instantly, making hardware manufacturing mistakes irreversible

“It's the exact same for factory equipment. You buy it for millions, and it's literally worth, like, a few dollars. You can't reverse any mistake that you make as you go back. So you just have to be right which makes it really high stakes.”

Bryon Hargis May 1, 2025 ▶ 17:08 How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance	May 1, 2025	4m

Bryon Hargis

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