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Bryon Hargis

Co-founder & CEO, Castelion. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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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.

What they said3 Shows1

Everything Bryon Hargis said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated

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

a16z 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

a16z 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

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Bryon's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Co-founder & CEO, Castelion	1	3	—	full record on the a16z Podcast →