Aaron Slodov

Building the future of manufacturing: @atomic_inc, @reindsummit, @newindustrials

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

for everyone working to reindustrialize, watch this, burn it into your mind. absolutely no one is above this reality, no one will outsmart or outlast it. if the urgency isn't visceral yet, move faster. we are awake now, do not slow down.

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: There was this fantasy, really, that the whole world would become a free enterprise democracy, and that everyone would look like us. That ran into reality.

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

hamilton would be very reindustrialize-pilled today

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Alexander Hamilton fought anti-automation and pro-import arguments in the 1700s that hardly differ from the modern day.

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

finally, now they can start debt fueling more factories 🤗

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Pretty much.

As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.

SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue.

That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

@lucagrecoita 😎

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

this is true cap and closure molds are some of the hardest

[amy @amypretzel]

flip-top caps are such a flex. the lid, hinge and base can all be one piece of polypropylene. thick sections stay rigid; a thin strip bends thousands of times.

the difference between a structure and a mechanism is sometimes just where u put the plastic

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

@trq212 amazing run 🤝

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

@_not_oliver true

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

@tszzl

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

i think it's bc once they visit the factory they fall in love, danger zone

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

I learned last week that VCs don't seem to fly out to see the hardware companies they're investing in. This struck me as totally insane. While I was in India, my walk through @Airbound_Aero revealed much of what I wanted to know.

Have been through so many factories that I can usually tell in about five minutes what's real and what's hoping to be real and what's total garbage. Airbound had lots of the touches of an early @RocketLab - organization, attention to detail, etc.

I get that investors are looking at the founder and the business and their models. But feels like you could save a lot of heartache by bothering to get on a plane.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Today Boom unveils our first completed supersonic turbine core, a 2GW Superfactory, and—one more thing—the world's most advanced all-digital foundry to cast single crystal turbine blades and vanes https://t.co/q2KpL3dZi2

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

@codyaims @skillfactoryco @HiLanden lets goooooooooooo

[Cody James 🇺🇸 @codyaims]

A Skill Factory in every American city

We will take back what is ours

@skillfactoryco

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

erik is a total legend, great convo

[Machina Labs @MachinaLabs_]

America doesn't need to rebuild the factories of the 1950s. It needs to invent the factories of the future.

@EdwardMehr and @freeform_future CEO @ErikPalitsch discuss reindustrialization, lessons from SpaceX, outmaneuvering China, and the future of physical AI.

Full discussion 👇

[Marathon Fusion @MarathonFusion]

Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.

Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.

Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.

[Justin Mast @justinmast]

1/ Today we’re unveiling Bombadil, @electricplantco's foundation model that reads the electrical signals of living plants and turns them into a continuous view of their physiology.

Trained on 7M+ hours of plant electrical signal across 125+ species. That makes Bombadil the most species-diverse model of directly recorded electrical biosignals in existence. The animal equivalent would be one model that reads the brainwaves of blue whales, horseshoe crabs and fruit flies.

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

@alexnhaus we got a lot of work to do brother 🫡

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

more factories!

[Alex Niehaus @alexnhaus]

Helicon is building factories to industrialize composites.

We raised a $16.5M seed round led by @alley_corp (@abemurray /@JonesBrannon) with participation from @joshbuckley, @chalfs, @gokulr and other top investors.

We’re ramping production at our factory in Los Angeles to deliver against millions of unmanned systems that need to be built domestically.

We're building a world class team. Join us. https://t.co/30DjajhOr6

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

@PabloAntonio https://t.co/yNJWMkBcTt

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

shrimp is child's play compared to scorpion venom farming

[Jordan Noone 🇺🇸 @jordannoone]

if there was only a company that already combined agentic design, analysis, toolpathing all in one platform, and pushed those verified designs straight to a factory

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

@jimbelosic hell yeah

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

more factories! congrats jim + scs team!

[Jim Belosic (scs) @jimbelosic]

Okay it’s happening:

- Added 160k square feet in Reno for our automated high volume lines and parts up to 5’x10’. Operational now.

- Added 170k square feet in Pittston PA for 1-day shipping (or faster) to the Northeast US. Landing machines and growing the team now.

- Southeast US is next (flying out next week to negotiate a lease). 3 more leases in 3 more states to sign after that. Expect massive lead time reductions across our factory network.

- Finalizing our first acquisition and working on the second and third. These are services you’ve been asking for. More coming. We’ll be able to say yes to more of your BOM.

- Welding is ramping nicely. More assembly support soon.

- More materials and capabilities for CNC machining in development now, including much smarter pricing. Increased capacity will also help us cut lead time drastically.

- Added 450 people so far this year. Hopefully double that in 2027.

- Candy and merch budgets have been tripled.

…And we’re just getting started. That’s a big part of why we raised again: to build more, ship faster, and make manufacturing easier and more accessible. I’m doing my best for ya. I love you guys.

Big thanks to @willreed at @sparkcapital , @caitlinbolnick1 at @CRV, @marksugarman at MHS, @andrew__reed at @sequoia and @matthuang at @paradigm for supporting our Series B (and the extra rocket fuel)

LFG!!!!! 🇺🇸