Chris Power
Founder & CEO, Hadrian. On 4 shows, 8 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Chris Power is the founder and CEO of Hadrian, an automated manufacturing company. He focuses on rebuilding the aerospace and defense manufacturing base using software-led automation.
4shows
8appearances
121statements
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24said about them ↓ Everything Chris Power said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Power: U.S. military-industrial readiness is actually a 3 out of 10
“It's a lethality mirage and a lethality mirage is basically, you know, everyone else's impression of you is that you are a 10 out of 10 lethal. So they absolutely not going to fuck with you. And then maybe you lose one small conflict and someone goes, well, ho…”
Power: U.S. would take 5 years to rebuild exhausted ballistics inventory
“But if we have one conflict with China where we expand most of our ballistics inventory, We might not be able to remake it for like five years. Then we're basically standing around, you know, with our hands tied behind our backs.”
Chris Power claims 90% of US solar panels use Chinese slave labor
“90% of the solar panels in the country are being made in China by basically slave labor where millions of minority and immigrant women are being chemically castrated every year and forced into servitude.”
Power: Demographic decline will pressure Xi Jinping to act before 2037-2042
“We just have to last till about 2037, 20 42, and then kind of overnight China's working population will cut in half, and then they can try again in another thousand years. So that will put a lot of pressure in our opinion on Xi to actually do something, becaus…”
Power: Kalshi's 18% odds on Trump reviving manufacturing are severely underpriced
“I think the answer is yes. I think the answer is yes. I would take that bet. I think they're selling, you know, dollars for 18 cents.”
Power: Master machinists will never respect MBA graduates running shop roll-ups
“I think in general, it's a terrible idea, and the main reason is, is like, you want to run a factory, you gotta be leading the people, and you gotta have that credibility, and no master machinist or welder is gonna respect a kid who's got a suit and a Harvard …”
Power: The US no longer manufactures CNC machines domestically
“And we no longer make CNC machines in the US.”
Ukraine depleted three years of US missile inventory in three weeks
“We shipped the Ukrainians what we thought was three years of inventory of stinger and javelin missiles, which are shoulder mounted, really cheap missiles that can take out a tank or something. So for providing that to a human force in Taiwan or the Ukraine, it…”
Chris Power rates actual US military readiness at 3 out of 10
“In reality, I think we're about a three out of 10 and the real danger comes when, you know, a great power competitor finds out before you find out that you're actually a three out of 10.”
Power: High levels of automation are sole path to replace skilled labor
“And the only way to replace that skill in my mind is basically high levels of automation to kind of make those jobs simpler so that a new workforce can ramp up in a month.”
Power: Defense procurement must concentrate scale among four to five companies
“I just think people forget manufacturing is this like real brute force equation where I think you just have to pick like Four to five companies and let them have at it at a scale that's never been seen before and let them figure it out.”
Power: China is 20 years ahead of the US in manufacturing autonomy
“As of right now, if you look at, like, the PlayStation five as a product, like, that is effectively, I would say, 90% of fully automated production line, and, like, writ large across the board, people really miss this, and I think it's, like, strategic CCP com…”
Power: US no longer manufactures capital equipment for domestic factories
“We don't even make the CapEx that goes into the factories in the US anymore. Like it's all German, South Korean, Japanese or whatever, and they're controlled products.”
Power: Legacy defense manufacturing facilities could not be permitted today
“Even the basics, like some of the exquisite stuff can only be made in a certain state to feed the defense ecosystem because all the other states banned it or like they're literally in facilities that got certified 50 years ago and you could like, you literally…”
Power: US government will pick category winners in defense within two years
“I think alongside that certain areas of the government where there's a lot of immature companies, they're going to spend the next year making eight bets and seeing how it plays out. And in certain other areas, I think in the next two years, what you're going t…”
Power: Tech innovations cannot bridge China's subsidized manufacturing cost advantage
“Otherwise it's just the playing field is so uneven that no amount of technology can catch up to like the China cost.”
Power: China demographic decline accelerates Taiwan conflict timeline
“My thesis on this is because of the one child policy is going to really drop off China's population very quickly at a certain period of time. It creates this forcing function where in my opinion that the Taiwan scenario is more likely to happen because if they…”
Power: Deterring China for 10-15 years secures peace for 300 years
“I think that unless it goes hot in 28 is going to be 10 to 15 years. And as long as we can Hold them off there. Then their population drops off and we're good for another 300 years. Like that's kind of how I view the equation.”
Power: The United States produced only five ships in 2024
“We produced a grand total of five ships last year.”
Power: Automation's highest leverage is a 10x worker productivity boost
“And that's where we think automation has the highest leverage, not to replace people, but to really give the new workforce 10 times productivity, because we just don't have the people in America anymore to build these, you know, critical hardware for our custo…”
Power: The US lacks the capability to produce munitions rapidly
“As well as in the munitions categories where there's not much innovation to be done, but you just need to be able to produce a lot very fast, and we just don't have that capability in the U.S. Anymore.”
Power: There will not be more SpaceXs or new defense primes
“I don't think there's going to be more SpaceX's. I don't think there's going to be more Andrews, you know, of like new defense primes or neo primes, and I don't think there's going to be more than a handful of large industrials companies.”
Power: Disconnecting production from design degrades design capability
“When you disconnect production from design, you get very bad at design.”
The other half of the tape: Chris Power's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 23 times in 13 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most John Coogan 8Molly O'Shea 4Xander Oltmann 2Delian Asparouhov 2Christian Garrett 2Minn Kim 1Connor Love 1Christian Brose 1
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Sourcery 11
TBPN 10
the a16z Podcast 2
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Winning the AI Race & Reindustrialization | Christian Garrett, 137 Ventures · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- The New Era of Defense Manufacturing | Edward Mehr on TBPN
- Connor Love (Lightspeed) on Everything You Need to Know About Defense Startups
- "I Partner with People" - Chad Byers talks about Venture, Fitness, and Being a Chad.
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2024 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret for Skilled Immigration | Minn Kim, Founder of Lighthouse · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Embracing American Dynamism to Upgrade Manufacturing Production With Oden CEO Willem Sundblad · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Xander Oltmann, Commodity Capital: Downfall of SaaS & Uprising of Vertically Integrated Monopolies · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Securing America's Future: How Technology Companies and Washington Are Building A Safer World
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
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| a16zLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Hadrian | 4 | 56 | 17% 2/12 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| SOURCERYLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Hadrian | 2 | 45 | 0% 0/5 | full record on Sourcery → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Hadrian | 1 | 17 | 0% 0/1 | full record on TBPN → |
 ALL-INLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Hadrian | 1 | 3 | 0% 0/2 | full record on All-In → |