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Ep. 97: Why SpaceX Outsourced 95% of Its Wire Harnesses
Ep. 97: Why SpaceX Outsourced 95% of Its Wire Harnesses
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Few companies make it from pilot to production in the defense market. Those who do often change the industry in the process.
How do they do it? What lessons can startups take from their trials, successes, and failures? Crossing the Valley tells the stories of the trailblazers who are forging a new path for America's defense.
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- Ep. 97: Why SpaceX Outsourced 95% of Its Wire Harnesses · 43 min · Avsnitt 97Jordan Black had spent five years on wire harnesses at SpaceX when he flew to a factory in Mexico that builds automotive harnesses at high rate. One every two minutes. He spoke…
- Ep. 96: Robert Slaughter, Defense Unicorns · 44 min · Avsnitt 96Rob Slaughter’s company exists because of a year and a half of pain. Early in his Air Force career he was handed a gnarly problem. It lived right at the intersection of his…
- SPECIAL RELEASE: How ASW SO/LIC Put $650,000 on Contract in Eight Hours · 16 minMost industry days end the same way. You hears some good pitches. You collect some business cards. Someone in the government says “let’s follow up in a few weeks.” Then nothing…
- Ep. 95: Andrew Markoff, Smack Technologies · 52 min · Avsnitt 95Before Smack, Andy Markoff planned wars in PowerPoint. He was the operations officer for a special operations task force in northern Iraq during the fight for Mosul. Marine and…
- Ep. 94: A Replicator Retrospective · 50 min · Avsnitt 94Building Replicator: What it Took, and What it Meant Nobody in Washington gets promoted for grading their own homework in public. Dr. Kathleen Hicks and Aaron Sherman did it…
- Ep. 93: Building Minimum Useful Products · 55 min · Avsnitt 93How Chariot Defense Replaced Product Market Fit With a Weight Test Adam Warmoth took this interview from Fort Carson. A division commander had called him the Friday before and…
- Ep. 92: Conductor AI is building the layer between Law and Action · 39 min · Avsnitt 92Conductor AI: Building the Layer Between Law and Decision About Zach Long and Eric Schwartz Zachary Long and Eric Schwartz are the co-founders of Conductor AI. Both spent seven…
- Ep. 91 - John Conafay, CEO of Integrate · 51 min · Avsnitt 91Overview They were four people. They had ~$150,000 in the bank. And John Conafay wrote a check to an accreditation partner. That check was easily a double-digit percentage of the…
- Ep. 90: Friends Don't Let Friends Start Drone Companies · 56 min · Avsnitt 90Josh Giegel has spent his career on what he calls “the wrong side” of the software-hardware divide. He built rocket engines at SpaceX. He built supercritical CO2 power cycles in…
- Ep. 89: Lux Aeterna · 42 min · Avsnitt 89How Lux Aeterna Is Building a Market the Pentagon Didn’t Ask For About Brian Brian Taylor spent about fifteen years as a mechanical engineer before he ever sat in the founder’s…
- Ep. 88 - Method Security · 47 min · Avsnitt 88Background Cyber operations have always lived in the shadows of the national security conversation. In the wake of the Department of War suspending CMMC Level 2 guidance, this…
- Ep. 87 - How Turion Space is Turning a Trillion-Dollar Vision Into a Fundable Company · 53 min · Avsnitt 87About Ryan Westerdahl Before starting Turion, Ryan spent nine years as an engineer at SpaceX, joining not long after the company’s sixth flight and working under Kevin Wu — an…
- Ep. 86: In the Whitespace · 49 min · Avsnitt 86About Jackie Barbieri Jackie is the founder and CEO of Whitespace. She began her career supporting the counter-IED mission during the surge in Iraq, working as a red-team…
- Ep. 85 - Building a first check partnership · 41 min · Avsnitt 85About Phil Duong Phil Duong is the CEO and co-founder of Noda AI. The son of Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the U.S. with little money and speaking little English, he grew…
- Ep. 84 - Cape · 45 min · Avsnitt 84When it comes to the defense tech sales G.O.A.T. debate, John Doyle is one of the most oft-mentioned names in the business. From his days at Palantir, to his robust advisory…
- Ep. 83 - Nominal · 47 min · Avsnitt 83How Nominal Turned the Pentagon’s Slowest Gate Into a Growth Engine Featuring Cameron McCord, CEO and co-founder of Nominal About Cameron Cameron McCord has seen the defense…
- Ep. 82 - Machina Labs · 47 min · Avsnitt 82How Machina Labs Compressed 4-Year Lead Times Into 1 Week About Ed Mehr Ed Mehr is the CEO and co-founder of Machina Labs. A builder since childhood (he attended a school that…
- Ep. 81 - Revolutionizing Thermal Imaging with Obsidian Sensors · 26 min · Avsnitt 78Rebuilding America’s Thermal Imaging Supply Chain About John Hong and Tallis Chang John Hong is CEO and Tallis Chang is COO of Obsidian Sensors. The two have worked together for…
- Ep. 80 - Persistent Systems (very first podcast!) · 44 min · Avsnitt 80About Brian Spurlock Brian Spurlock is VP of Growth and Strategy at Persistent Systems, and a self-described “boomerang” employee, meaning he’s had two separate tenures at the…
- Ep. 79 - Inside GrayMatter Robotics · 39 min · Avsnitt 79Building the Physical AI Platform for the Industrial Base ABOUT ARIYAN KABIR Ariyan Kabir is the co-founder and CEO of GrayMatter Robotics. He started the company in early 2020…
