Opinion
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 …”
Assertion Contradicted
Power: The US no longer manufactures CNC machines domestically
“And we no longer make CNC machines in the US.”
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Power: Off-the-shelf AI fails in manufacturing because ITAR blocks training data
“Because American manufacturing is largely regulated in ITAR, there is no training data on the internet. So the, one of the reasons why our internal models actually work for manufacturing, you know, machine learning models is because we're the only ones with th…”
Opinion
Power: Greta Thunberg's advice destroyed European energy independence and industrial sovereignty
“I think really what you're seeing in Europe is two warring tribes. One is the people that You know, set their energy policy based off the poor advice of a 14 year old Swedish girl and gave all the leverage to Russian oil and gas. And then you've got your kind …”
Opinion
Power: The US no longer has an industrial base
“And now the incredibly skilled workforce that does incredible technical things in high precision machining or castings are all aging out. So we really don't have an industrial base anymore.”
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Power: 100% of Hadrian's workforce had no prior factory experience
“And 100% of our workforce that people have never set foot inside a factory before.”
Insight
Power: Robotics should augment workers 10x rather than replace them
“And we really believe in using the best of software and robotics to give the new workforce 10 times more efficiency with superpowers, you know, versus like replacing them entirely, you know.”
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Power: Hadrian is becoming a co-prime for new defense tech programs
“For a lot of the newer entrants or for new programs, we are becoming a, like, co-prime where the DoD Hey, John, you can definitely make 50 drones or 50 of this product, but we'd really love you to partner with Hadrian because we think they should build your Te…”
Disclosure
Power: Hadrian avoids Chinese machinery due to spyware concerns
“We don't buy for them because they got spyware all over this stuff.”
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Power: 70% of Deep Tech Capital Goes to Prototypes, Factories, and Components
“I think 70% of all the deep tech dollars goes to, you know, there's some headcount for engineering, but a lot of it is producing prototypes and then scaling factories and components.”
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Power: Hadrian operates lights-out factories 24/7
“No, we're lights out today. We were on 24 seven with a handful of really smart people running the fleet. The lights are on now cause we're all here. We're a 24 seven, seven day a week operation.”
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Power: 80% of Hadrian Factory Processes Require No Specialist Expertise
“80% of our processes were at that point where we're in Ghibli mode, one shot. Ah, there's some really deep digital manufacturing stuff that you still need an expert to do, so we're in the, like, software engineer is 10 times more productive land versus anyone …”
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Power: Legacy machine shop equipment from 1950s-1980s cannot be automated
“And a lot of the capital equipment in all of the naval facilities or, you know, everywhere in machine shops is, you know, somewhere between from the 19 fifties to the 19 eighties. And it's just impossible to automate it because often none of them have computer…”
Insight
Power: Single-program defense startups face existential risk from continuing resolution delays
“For larger companies like Andrel, you know, they're working on 10 programs at once, so if a couple of them get delayed, it's not a huge issue. I think Dellian's out Absolutely right about like, if you're a startup and you're bidding on one and that revenue cyc…”
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Power: Hadrian's core business is growing 10x year-over-year
“We're in a really good position where we can eat those long continuing resolution cycles because our core business is growing like 10 times, you know, 10 X year on year.”
Disclosure
Power: Hadrian has a growing waitlist for factory deployment
“We can only build so many factories a year. So the waiting list of everyone wants a Hadrian factory to deploy their products at scale in the US is growing quite a lot, which we're very lucky.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2027
Power: Hadrian will expand to allied countries in a year or two
“So we have so much work to do here in the US that we'd love to support our allied partners in Europe and the, you know, the Middle East and countries like Japan re-industrialize as well. And they often have the same kind of core skilled labor problem. We've go…”
