In this week's episode I was honored to be joined by Zane Hengsperger as we talked about all things manufacturing.

Here's what we chatted about:

0:00 – Introduction

2:59 – What’s interesting in manufacturing?

4:41 – Can we de-throne China as the World’s Factory?

9:21 – Automation vs manual labor

12:32 – Software integration

13:37 – Anduril

17:42 – What industries are interesting?

19:45 – Solving labor shortages

23:15 – Reindustrialize

24:08 – Make Manufacturing Cool

28:08 – Site selection

29:38 – Evaluating a business and the real estate

34:29 – What makes or breaks a company?

36:40 – Optimizing factory space

43:43 – X Accounts to follow

Links to the accounts Zane mentions:

https://x.com/aphysicist

https://x.com/MikeSlagh

https://x.com/JulianFried

https://x.com/rustbeltkid1

https://x.com/snowmaker

https://x.com/KennethCassel

https://x.com/jack_watson_hfw

https://x.com/jimbelosic

https://x.com/2112Power

https://x.com/PalmerLuckey

https://x.com/zanehengsperger

https://x.com/techbrospod

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🙋‍♂️ Chad Griffiths

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