† | Building fully automated textile manufacturing @fw_automation. (re)Industrialist. Previously Interweave, Lazard.
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I’m hiring a Chief of Staff at @fw_automation
For 2 years you’ll work with me across the company, then move into a senior role in biz ops or finance
The right person is highly organized, self-motivated, hungry, and comfortable keeping many things moving at once. CoS, banking, or staffer backgrounds are likely fits
Denver Rayburn retweeted
the path of least resistance to fix the coming crisis is to allow pre-retirement americans to accept a social security buyout in exchange for a lump sum deposited into their trump accounts (530As) with which they can buy spcx/oai/ant/etc at some discount. very simple
We’re gonna get Liam Coen’d
Exactly what I reported earlier. On the Will Stein note, I expect Stein to be Texas’s #1 target as well. The school has put out feelers to Lanning, Cristobal, Chesney and Stein. Stein so far is the only one to display real interest in the job. Things could move quickly in Austin.
Denver Rayburn retweeted
Denver made and sold the sweater (profitably) for $16.
Whatever company you found making this overpriced knock off (1) doesn’t know how many stars are on Old Glory (2) is gouging their customers.
My rejoinder? REIND is happening.
Re your “4 things,”
1) POTUS is doing the right thing and the Dems quietly agree and aren’t going to roll back (ask me how I know)
2) The Gundo is filled with hungry entrepreneurs and it’s possible they are hungry in ATX, SF, and elsewhere (though I can’t speak to that)
3) The nice thing about tarriffs against the totalitarian mercantile states like Communist China is that we’re paying people great wages and equity now
4) and technology including clean coal means we don’t need to pollute to do it.
In short: we are going to win.
Reindustrialization isn’t buying a $320 made in the USA sweater that can be bought for less than $10 in multiple other countries.
It’s not about getting a billion dollar valuation on your startup that has never built a real product that has a multi-million dollar contract from a government that spent 2 trillion more than it took in this year.
It’s not about looking cool** and it’s not about getting asset-price rich on mystery money.
Reindustrialization is about 4 things.
Until we have those 4, it ain’t going to happen.
Let me tell you a short story.
We had a supplier in China with a coal boiler.
The coal boiler belched dark soot into the air.
One day the government came in and said “you can’t use your coal boiler anymore. Replace it with a natural gas one; the coal is dirtying up the air.”
The factory would have to shut down for months.
No money for the boss.
No work for the employees.
And no orders for me.
“How long will the orders be delayed?”
“They won’t.”
“And how will you do that?”
“Don’t worry about it.”
The orders shipped on time.
How?
The factory switched to working nights.
The black smoke from the coal boiler couldn’t be seen in the dark night sky.
At the same time they installed a new natural gas boiler during the day.
By the way, this boiler was bigger than two semi trailer trucks side by side, literally it is beyond most people’s comprehension.
And that’s the point.
Reindustrialization is beyond peoples’ comprehension in America.
1. You need to have a government that does the right thing
2. You need to have factory ownership that is hungry for business
3. You need to have workers who are willing to make big sacrifices
4. And then everyone around them needs to be able tolerate the black smoke from the coal boiler
We don’t have any of these things today.
Will that change?
Maybe, but overpriced sweaters and billion dollar valuations on vaporware is not how we’re going to get there.
Denver Rayburn retweeted
My favorite part of this article is one of the visiting scholars pointing out that by Olah’s logic he is by far the worst slaver in history and he must immediately give up this abhorrent and immensely lucrative project, which anthropic people ignored.
“The American culture is we start from scratch, and we beat you”
Alan Neuhauser, Axios is asking this panel if the American dynamism / reindustrialize crew will be able to build things fast enough.
What say you @tfeldmann, @DenverRayburn, @ADoricko, @Willob, @isaiah_p_taylor, @jakobdiepen
Denver Rayburn retweeted
I was the proud owner of a reindustrialize sweater for 15 minutes
And then my gf saw it
And now she’s the proud owner of a reindustrialize sweater
Denver Rayburn retweeted
Poseidon Aerospace has expanded into our new 110,000 sqft HQ in Alameda, California!
Our new facility is at Alameda Naval Air Station, a former Navy hangar with an incredible history of building and supporting American aviation. We're bringing aerospace manufacturing back to it.
This facility will become the home of Poseidon’s production and manufacturing operations. Over the next few years, a lot of airplanes are going to come out of these doors.
