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Eric Turney

President, The Monterey Company. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Eric Turney leads The Monterey Company, an Oregon-based company founded in 1989 that designs and manufactures custom promotional merchandise. He modernizes custom product manufacturing through the adoption of AI tools, automated workflow systems, and digital commerce strategies to scale production.

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1appearances
8statements
1resolved
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Everything Eric Turney said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Turney: Overseas Manufacturers Cut Headcount from 300 to ~190 via Automation
“In the past, there would be a team of, let's say, 300 that would do the manufacturing, and they can get the same output with about 182 hundred.”
Eric Turney Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 1:21 We're Forced to Automate or Get Left in the Dust
Turney: Large Manufacturers Will Push Out Smaller Competitors via Costly AI Robotics
“They're not cheap pieces of equipment, so not the smaller manufacturers can't afford them, but I see like the bigger manufacturers really taking over and kind of pushing out some of the smaller ones with these massive scaled robotic AI machines.”
Eric Turney Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 2:03 We're Forced to Automate or Get Left in the Dust
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Turney: Site With 100% AI Content Drew Millions of Monthly Clicks
“There was a website, AI invest. If you've ever heard of it, they are a hundred percent AI content. They don't hide it. They have off AI authors on their pages and they skyrocketed. I mean, they were getting millions and millions of clicks per month. And then G…”
Eric Turney Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 26:07 We're Forced to Automate or Get Left in the Dust
Turney: Influencers Like Alex Hormozi Portray Entrepreneurship as Unrealistically Easy
“For most entrepreneurs that like the YouTubers make it sound so easy. A lot of them, you know, the Alex Hermoses of the world. And it's a lot of there, there's a lot that goes into it. Unexpected problems that happen.”
Eric Turney Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 33:50 We're Forced to Automate or Get Left in the Dust
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Turney: Robotic Enameling Machines Cut Factory Labor From 50 Workers to Five
“You're taking 50 workers and now you need five that can do the same process and the level of, there's imperfections with hand filling enamel. It's just the human nature and you can get it to a T with these enamel, enameling machines.”
Eric Turney Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 5:14 We're Forced to Automate or Get Left in the Dust
Turney: Manufacturers must automate processes or get abandoned for faster competitors
“Speed is so, such a overlooked thing. I feel like craftsmanship speed is, yeah, in, in today's world, people want things so fast and We're forced to automate our processes or we kind of get left in the dust, you know, then move on to the next thing.”
Eric Turney Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 12:24 We're Forced to Automate or Get Left in the Dust
Turney: Consulting on AI Process Automation Is a Gold Mine
“Developing AI businesses where you can consult and work within companies to automate their processes, their archaic processes, I think is a gold mine for people.”
Eric Turney Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 31:24 We're Forced to Automate or Get Left in the Dust
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Turney: Manufacturing vendor scaled from 10 to 400 people using enameling machines
“There was a vendor that we worked with that started in 2014 with a small crew of, like, 10 people, and now they're at, like, 400 with these enameling machines.”
Eric Turney Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 6:09 We're Forced to Automate or Get Left in the Dust

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