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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: 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: China built 1,700 vessels last year versus five by the US
“I mean, we're talking about like a quantum shipbuilding of like, I think it's 1700 last year of commercial and military vessels versus five.”
Hadrian plans to acquire or outcompete YC's new hardware startups
“The second thing is, I think it'll generate a bunch of great acquisitions for us. If any of them grow too fast in the category that we're going to enter, we have this phrase internally, which is we're either going to scoop them up, or we're going to bonk them.”
Power: Hadrian is the only US company generating advanced manufacturing training data
“So we're the only company that's actually generating labeled data that you can then train models around for advanced manufacturing in the US.”
Power: Hadrian trains workers with no factory experience in 20 to 30 days
“From a workforce and training piece, we can train and onboard them in 20 to 30 days from their Home Depot, their bus driver, literally any background.”
Power: Global reserve currency status will flip in 20-30 years
“We are 20 or 30 years away from the reserve currency flipping, which happens roughly every a 120 years.”
Power: Venture investors will see bruised defense tech returns within two years
“I think we're probably going to see some like bruised brews return profiles in the next two years of, you know, people flooding capital into companies that aren't a platform on a model product company, but the opportunity is still there.”
Power: Hadrian has a 60% chance of failing within 18 months
“And to do the amount of hiring, scaling, and execution that we need to do is like, 40% chance it works, 60% we're having this conversation in like 18 months, and like, company, company no longer works.”
Power: Hadrian achieved 10x revenue growth over four quarters
“When we launched, ah, like the factory to all of our customers in January, we basically 10 X revenue in four quarters last year.”
Power: Hadrian targets close to $1B in top-line revenue by 2027
“You know, we want to be close to a billion in top line by, like, 20, like, 20, 27.”
Power: Fed will cut rates close to 2021 ZERP levels within 12 months
“I think that we have so much headroom in the federal reserve rate, that I think we're going to see dramatic cuts close to twenty-twenty-one ZERP levels over the next 12 months.”
Power: Hadrian serves the vast majority of hardware startups via Atlas
“I would say we're serving currently the vast majority of hardware startups through our product for Atlas”
Power: The US no longer manufactures antibiotics domestically
“We don't really make antibiotics onshore in the US anymore.”
Power: 90% of Hadrian recruits have never worked in a factory
“90% of our people now that we recruit have never set foot inside a factory.”
Power: Stripe and Google capped annual team headcount growth at exactly 30%
“Patrick Carlson from Stripe and also Eric Schmidt at Google basically had a hard and fast rule that you could only scale teams 30% a year without damaging the culture of the org.”
Power: Hadrian filled its 100,000 sq ft LA factory in one year
“Our factory in LA, which is about a 100,000 square foot we basically filled it in a year from all that customer growth.”
Power: Hadrian will open its Arizona factory by Christmas
“So we're launching factory three in Arizona, which will be up and running in Christmas. We're in July, we signed the lease a couple of weeks ago, so it'll take us six months from start to finish to have it up and running, which I think is really fast.”