American Manufacturing

topic on 7 shows · 11 statements across 11 episodes

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11 statements about American Manufacturing, every show

SOURCERY Insight
Black: The future of American manufacturing is configuration, not just automation
“Ultimately, the future of American manufacturing is not just automation, it's configuration”
Jordan Black Jul 15, 2026 ▶ 24:44 Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
TBPN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cuban: Requiring Foreign Amazon Seller Bonds Would Skyrocket US Manufacturing
“And yeah, and legislatively you could fix it in a heartbeat. You got to post a bond. 25,000 dollar bond, depending on the size of the market, maybe more, and then give everybody 90 days to check it, and all of a sudden the whole industry changes, and American …”
Mark Cuban Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 30:05 FULL INTERVIEW: Mark Cuban on Robots, AI, Self-Driving, and Advice to Students
SOURCERY Opinion
Maguire: SpaceX is likely the most vertically integrated US manufacturer
“Like, I think it's probably, probably the most vertically integrated American manufacturing company. And like, when you're vertically integrated, it just lets you move with like a speed and flexibility that No one else has outside of China.”
Shaun Maguire Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 19:12 Elon Musk & The SpaceX IPO: Largest Wealth Event in History? | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
a16z Insight
Boyle: SpaceX's Biggest Legacy Is Spreading Manufacturing Methodology Across Industry
“I do think that the legacy of SpaceX, yes, everything they've built and done is important, but the manufacturing processes that people have learned at SpaceX is going to be carrying America forward for generations. When you think how tens of thousands of peopl…”
Katherine Boyle Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 35:18 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Didn’t hold up
Petersen: U.S. trade tariffs will decrease American manufacturing
“What we've seen over the last few weeks is it's gonna decrease American manufacturing.”
Ryan Petersen Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 10:42 Is The U.S. Losing Trump's Trade War? — Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen
TBPN Opinion
Tisch: A US manufacturing windfall from tariffs is a stretch
“The easy guess is like American manufacturing windfall, but that feels Like a big stretch, like no one's building a factory overnight. I feel like that happens in other parts of the world, not here.”
David Tisch Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 7:27 Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
TBPN Opinion
Coogan: Robotics scales domestic manufacturing faster than retraining human workers
“Robotics can move much faster if it's ramping exponentially than retraining a whole generation.”
John Coogan Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 2:35:04 Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
WE LIVE TO BUILD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dubois: Low-cost manufacturing in the US will completely move overseas
“For better or for worse, there's just not going to be a lot of value in American manufacturing making really inexpensive stuff. I mean, all of that is, is going to go away. It's going to go to other countries again, for better, for worse, you could wish it was…”
Brian Dubois Aug 11, 2024 ▶ 8:42 Lights Out Factories: When the Goal Is No Humans Inside
HOW I BUILT THIS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Winthrop: Eradicating manufacturing jobs creates severe national class division
“Believe pretty fundamentally that if we continued to Or continue down that path. We are going to start to create, you know, a country that is really divided and people that, you know, have college degrees and can go on to be bankers and people that don't and t…”
Bayard Winthrop Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 31:29 American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
WE LIVE TO BUILD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Spiller: American Manufacturing Will Return as Startups Build Domestic Factories
“I think there's, you know, you're going to see American manufacturing come back to some degree. You know, certainly a lot of the companies, especially the startups are, you know, they're building their own factories and, you know, doing, doing things themselve…”
Nick Spiller Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 34:16 10,000 Investor Meetings Later, He Saw One Same-Day Commitment
ACQUIRED Opinion
Walmart's relentless pricing pressure was a major contributor to offshoring US manufacturing
“Ultimately that leads to a couple of things that led to offshoring of American manufacturing. Walmart was a huge contributor.”
David Rosenthal Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 2:50:09 Walmart · Acquired

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