Christoph Duenhuber

GTM Lead US at Tacto | Figthing for Western Sovereignty 🇺🇸

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

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

[Christoph Duenhuber @Duenhuber]

Spent the week at IMTS and the coverage gap is hard to unsee.

Old guard: INDEX, Makino. Carrying the Midwest for decades, almost no coverage.

AI manufacturers: Boston Dynamics, Standard Bots. All the clips.

Same building. Reindustrialization needs both. 🇺🇸

[Christoph Duenhuber @Duenhuber]

@gerbes_stefan @IndexVentures @villigm @danieldines @tom_okman @nomosenergy @nils_bitzer_ 🚀

[Christoph Duenhuber @Duenhuber]

We'll be at IMTS all week! 🏭

Stop by Booth 135711 (East Building, Level 3) to learn more about how we enable American manufacturing companies to generate P&L-relevant cost savings with our AI platform. Looking forward to seeing you!

[Christoph Duenhuber @Duenhuber]

Love this so much! We need to bring manufacturing back to the US and fight for our sovereignty! 🚀

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Returning today as the Vice President of the United States, standing in the exact steel mill where my Papaw worked for decades to put food on the table, I couldn’t help but feel immense pride.

Pride not only of where I came from and the impact places like this had on who I became, but proud to share the amazing news of investment being made here in Middletown, Ohio.

Thanks to President Trump’s economic agenda that puts America First, the future of the United States is not going to be sold out to the highest foreign bidder. The future of American industry and manufacturing is going to be built in towns all across these great United States.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

American manufacturing dominance. 📈🇺🇸

[Isar Aerospace @isaraerospace]

We’re in orbit! And just made European history: This is the first time a privately developed rocket reached orbit from continental Europe; and a testament to the dedication, expertise, and teamwork of everyone involved.

[Christoph Duenhuber @Duenhuber]

Agree 100%! Finding your life's mission is incredible. Let's reindustrialize the US! 🇺🇸

[Zane Hengsperger @zanehengsperger]

finding your life's mission is incredible. my grandchildren will work at nox metals

bought a $1200 saw 10 months ago for 3,000 sqft

just had to get started... lots of haters along the way ... but now:

>75,000 sqft
>200+ customers
>40 new US manufacturing jobs
>1M lines of code
>a heck of a time

[Christoph Duenhuber @Duenhuber]

This article and the previous one "a blueprint for reindustrialization" are the best pieces I have found to date to understand what is needed for reindustrialization in the US and how the SBA can be utilized to drive the creation of an American Mittelstand. Honestly a must read!

[zach @zachglabman]

https://t.co/M5GZSg7ldc

[Jennifer Li @JenniferHli]

Munich is buzzing! 🐝 So impressed by the humility, positivity and work ethic of these deeply technical founders. Thank you to my cohosts @EvaSpannagl from OpenAI, Christoph and Friedrich !!