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Great Builders & Success First with Intercom’s Eoghan McCabe | E1962

This Week in Startups

CHAPTER

Efficiency in Building Infrastructure across Different Regions

This chapter delves into the necessity for the United States to enhance its building efficiency, highlighting disparities among regions and underscoring the significance of swift infrastructure development. The discussion includes real-world examples from California, Texas, and Elon Musk's Gigafactory to showcase varying construction timelines and efficacy.

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Speaker 2
And I think America needs to rip out a lot of that too. It's time to build as good
Speaker 1
as cliche as that is. Mark can be like bombastic and whatever. so right. Like I have, I don't know if you spent time in the middle East at all, like Dubai or whatever. I got to spend some time there and then Texas and Florida. And I'm now judging like a big part about how I judge regions of the world is how quickly they can build something awesome for their citizens, like a school, right? Or a bridge or high speed train. Right. And it's like in California is like, yeah, we've spent 10s of billions on the high speed train. It's like, yeah, I haven't taken it yet. And then in Texas, like, I was talking to Elon, like about the Gigafactory at one point, and I was at the opening with him, we're just sitting there, you know, like one of those behind the stage moments and talking about like this kind of surreal, right? Like that you built this, uh, I don't know if you've ever seen the gigafactory in Texas. Yeah, it's like one of the largest buildings on the planet. And he built it in like a couple of years. I said, I wonder what this has taken in California. I'm just curious. He's like, I'd still be in the paperwork. I
Speaker 2
mean, how long did it take to build that toilet in San Francisco? I
Speaker 1
think it was like closer to 10 years than five and it was 1 .7 million right to build a
Speaker 2
single toilet It's probably a pretty nice toilet. I think
Speaker 1
that toilet has checked off every DEI checkbox. Nice. Every like every potential ethnicity contributed to that one bathroom. Every screw was a different person and Everybody got to have their... I need to check it out. I'm gonna go check out that toilet. Actually, you and I should do that. That would be a great bromance date. You and I can just go and just check out that toilet. That'd be amazing for 1 .7 million. I know. It symbolizes
Speaker 2
all that is great about America.
Speaker 1
It does. It does. We'll talk about the American exceptionalism next time and we'll see you next time on This Week in Service. Bye -bye.
Speaker 3
Thank you, sir.

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