High-Tech Manufacturing Is White Hot | Uphoff on Industry

The Big Themes:

• Manufacturing is hot again: In this country there’s a Renaissance, I love it because I joined Thomas four years ago with the idea it is going to get white hot again.
• The millennial generation: Young people in particular are starting to imagine what their future might look like, and what manufacturing provides for them that other technology doesn’t.
• The Dollar Shave Club: The technology enabled the ability to create a subscription business out of razors into a retail outlet of my brand of razor.
• If you're a horizontal player: At some point you’ve got to understand that your entry into a marketplace needs to be vertical.

The Big Quotes:

“So the idea that a computer company could be a car company and a car company could be a computer company is not a reach today. It's a reality.”

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