Hiring non-stop @AmcaInc......
"SpaceX is an inspiring place. I told myself that if I was ever going to leave, it would be to join something I found even more inspiring than getting to Mars.
I joined Amca because the worst supply chain crises I tackled at SpaceX all followed the same pattern: Sole-sourced. Vendor IP. Backlogged. 52 weeks. Price hikes. A staggering number of components need to come together to build a vehicle, and all it takes is one critically-constrained part to cripple a multi-billion dollar production line and get a meeting with executive leadership put on your calendar.
This is a stark reality, and nowhere is it worse than in aerospace and defense, where rigorous qualification processes and tight control of technical information, both of which are necessary to keep us safe, create a moat between legacy suppliers and challengers. This moat discourages innovation, invites greed, and poses an existential threat to aircraft and rocket manufacturers, but it doesn't need to be this way.
Amca is expanding competition and capacity for the critically-constrained components that multi-billion dollar production lines rely on, and I am now part of that mission."
The gap between what America needs and what it can produce across defense and aerospace is the largest it's been in decades.
We can close it by reconstituting our supply chain and building a new American industrial base.
More from @jaimalik on @BloombergTV here:
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I'm excited to announce that @AmcaInc has raised a $300M Series B at a >$1B valuation, led by @CaffeinatedCap with major support from @LightspeedVP, @a16z, @Lux_Capital, and others.
We're on a mission to reconstitute a supply chain that has too often put profit over country.
I'm excited to announce that @AmcaInc has raised a $300M Series B at a >$1B valuation, led by @CaffeinatedCap with major support from @LightspeedVP, @a16z, @Lux_Capital, and others.
We're on a mission to reconstitute a supply chain that has too often put profit over country.
It’s rare to announce a new hire and acquisition in one go, but today is extra special.
Meet Doug Johnson. Doug has been making parts for fighter jets from scratch since 1992. He and his wife now join the @AmcaInc team, bringing with them the company they built over decades.
I’ve been watching this again and again, not just because Candy is extraordinary, but because @jaimalik and team are on to the quiet part: these stories aren’t just about building the defense industrial base. They’re about family businesses, and how we used to collectively build for the national interest as wives, husbands, brothers, children. The family building as one.
90 percent of the world’s businesses are family businesses. And some of the most extraordinary companies are built on this kind of long-lasting friendship, the bonds of blood. Let’s never forget that.
American manufacturing is built on small companies with big personalities.
This is the story of Candy Suits, a Beverly Hills model and Icelandic weather presenter turned defense CEO. She’s been manufacturing cockpit panels for fighter jets since the 1980s.
the American industrial base is full of stories like this.
these stories - stories of people, and of companies, and of projects, and of outcomes - are what we are fighting not only to preserve, but grow and transform.
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American manufacturing is built on small companies with big personalities.
This is the story of Candy Suits, a Beverly Hills model and Icelandic weather presenter turned defense CEO. She’s been manufacturing cockpit panels for fighter jets since the 1980s.
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