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Ep. 97: Why SpaceX Outsourced 95% of Its Wire Harnesses
Episode 97
Jordan 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 …
17 hours ago
Ep. 96: Robert Slaughter, Defense Unicorns
Episode 96
Rob 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 t…
1 week ago
SPECIAL RELEASE: How ASW SO/LIC Put $650,000 on Contract in Eight Hours
Most 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…
3 weeks ago
Ep. 95: Andrew Markoff, Smack Technologies
Episode 95
Before Smack, Andy Markoff planned wars in PowerPoint.
He was the operations officer for a special operations task force in northern Iraq during the f…
1 month ago
Ep. 94: A Replicator Retrospective
Episode 94
Building Replicator: What it Took, and What it Meant
Nobody in Washington gets promoted for grading their own homework in public.
Dr. Kathleen Hicks an…
1 month, 1 week ago
Ep. 93: Building Minimum Useful Products
Episode 93
How Chariot Defense Replaced Product Market Fit With a Weight Test
Adam Warmoth took this interview from Fort Carson. A division commander had called …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 92: Conductor AI is building the layer between Law and Action
Episode 92
Conductor AI: Building the Layer Between Law and Decision
About Zach Long and Eric Schwartz
Zachary Long and Eric Schwartz are the co-founders of Condu…
2 months ago
Ep. 91 - John Conafay, CEO of Integrate
Episode 91
Overview
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 do…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 90: Friends Don't Let Friends Start Drone Companies
Episode 90
Josh 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 super…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 89: Lux Aeterna
Episode 89
How 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 …
2 months, 3 weeks ago