Subcontractors
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Modon: Unlimited Industries will vertically integrate all trades in-house long term
“Certainly long-term, we will do everything in-house. We will vertically integrate as much as possible because that's where you can fix the incentives all the way through.”
Field software fails because multi-tiered construction subcontractors will not self-report progress
“It's very difficult because of the information, because the people actually doing the work are subcontractors of subcontractors of subcontractors, and they're not going to report what's done, what's not done in the now. And then that means that to know what's …”
Chris Doyle: Billd has roughly 350 active subcontractor borrowers
“Yeah between, probably about 350 right now.”
Luckey: Defense startups cannot build multi-billion dollar scale as subcontractors
“You can't just be a subcontractor to a prime and expect to build A multi-billion dollar company.”
Young: Traditional bathroom construction requires 10 to 20 separate subcontractors
“It takes somewhere between 10 to 20 different subcontractors that touches a bathroom, which is crazy, right? You only think of like, you know, maybe the plumbers but there's the concrete subcontractor, there's a mechanical subcontractor, the electricians, the …”