Izgin Ozdas

Mechanical engineer turned founder
Prev Cambridge, GaTech

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@Henryf1w Their creativity

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Precision manufacturing is art.

People talk about factories like they’re just machines, tolerances and throughput.

Then you watch someone work at this level and realize how much of manufacturing is judgment, touch, patience and craft.

This is what building physical things actually looks like.

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@craigweiss We need more manufacturing unicorns

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@contextconor I wish more founders thought like this.

Ambition is so much more interesting when it’s in service of something bigger than yourself - cause thats how you keep going

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yes. this is exactly what i want to spend my life building: making atoms as programmable as bits.

a fully interoperable manufacturing system where machines, processes, suppliers, and software speak the same language-and we can manufacture physical things with the speed and intelligence we now build software.... let's vibe manufacture in the US too

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in 2024, china installed 295,000 industrial robots-54% of all installations globally and nearly 10x the US whereas US imported $440B of goods directly from china.

US treated manufacturing as the final step-something to outsource once the “real innovation” was finished. but manufacturing is where innovation begins. every production run compounds process knowledge, supplier capability, tooling, talent, and speed.

US didn’t just outsource the atoms - it outsourced the learning loop.

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@IlirAliu_ The more interesting question to me is whether purpose-built automation itself becomes adaptive.

Keep the mechanical efficiency but add AI, sensing, and reconfigurability so the same machine can handle far more variation.

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@IlirAliu_ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

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@Andrew__Ashur This is what gets missed in the cost conversation.

When design, production and testing are close together, you learn faster. That speed compounds.

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@mattfreed Maybe the real unlock is moving from physical inventory to digital inventory + local production. Make the part near the point of need instead of storing everything “just in case.”

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@ML_Philosophy Startup ideas are just childhood obsessions with cap tables

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@Markmanson Certainty in yourself. Possibility everywhere else

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@ToolySOL How do you recognize victory without loss?

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@Olisehateshittt Yeah but we can enjoy the process right?

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@hexesandspell Intelligence

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@imfat Taste

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@OrevaZSN Humans are also trained on everything we’ve seen before. Creativity comes through consciousness and creates a future that isn’t obvious from the past

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@distributedkv @manrajsandhu new business idea?

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@feyiszn Sleep is for losers

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@juumelo_ Imagine having an arch nemesis period. Lame