My second interview with @2112Power, Founder and CEO of @HadrianInc. 0:10 How to scale manufacturing in the US 1:42 Building ahead of contracts 4:21 Burn rate & execution risk 6:40 Bets that aren’t risky to you but are risky to everyone else 8:34 Scaling capacity 10:45 Operating with an 80% risk of death 13:10 Sprinting through 1-way doors 16:51 “Sometimes you gotta roll a hard 6” 18:37 Constructing a new factory 21:45 Learning how to build factories 28:14 Surviving company killing events 32:12 Radically pulling forward timelines 37:13 How financing changes as you scale from $1M revenue to $1B revenue 38:53 Growing from 725 to 1,325 employees in 4 months 43:00 Deciding which contracts to go after 45:33 What’s stopping you from growing faster? 50:02 “Just f*cking do it” 53:23 Designing the finance side of the business 56:51 Educating investors on manufacturing and capex heavy businesses 59:08 Deciding which competitive advantages to optimize for 1:02:08 Building trust with government partners 1:04:54 False doors 1:09:12 Figuring out the highest leverage activities 1:11:04 Investing in velocity 1:13:59 Energy management