Handmer: US must maintain domestic electronics manufacturing via automation to rapidly prototype
Casey Handmer · Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea · Oct 28, 2025 · at 38:39
Terraform Industries founder Casey Handmer discusses manufacturing competitiveness with Stripe co-founder John Collison.
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“If you want to have the ability to, like, rapidly prototype electronic systems, you've got to have that here, servicing, servicing the US market, which is the strongest consumer market on earth. There's no reason you can't do it. No, you don't want to have, like, fourteen-year-olds in sweatshops soldering stuff together, but if you look at the Bastrop plant where styling terminals are made, it's all in the United States, it's 99.99% automated, and that's how we can do it. We should be doing it here.”
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