Caldwell: Construction schedules should be built bottom-up from discrete tasks
Turner Caldwell · Tesla and SpaceX Alumni on Elon Musk, Decision Velocity, and the Future of Hard Tech | a16z · Mar 27, 2026 · at 29:09
Mariana Minerals CEO Turner Caldwell shares lessons on scaling hardware and refinery construction from his time leading projects at Tesla.
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“On construction, you need to boil it down into specific subsets of tasks that are, you know, actually torquing bolts and actually like welding out seams to build that up into like, what does the schedule actually need to be instead of doing like top-down assessments of kind of how long something is going to take to build.”
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