Alex Wilhelm

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67,402 appearances 274 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 19 Aug

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This Week in Startups · The Drone Company Quietly Taking Over Delivery · 27 May 2026 podcast

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I know there's been a lot of talk about reindustrialization of the United States, building our manufacturing capacity back up, but it's hard for me to tell where I sit if that's a lot of people cosplaying in Bob the Builder hats or if they're actually making um, you know, real progress towards shovels in the ground. voice-verified

Are American drone companies, both startup and from maybe even the primes, are they doing the work to reconstitute those supply lines here in the States or voice-verified

uh for the foreseeable future in are we not going to be able to do enough in nation manufacturing to kind of like supply our own drone components? voice-verified

I'm scared now. voice-verified

Do you know um that that uh that project cost plus drugs? voice-verified

It's essentially like I think it's maybe it's Mark Cuban who's working on this. voice-verified

They essentially just make generic drugs in the US for a very low price. voice-verified

I feel like we need some billionaire to be like, I'm gonna make the PCB base company and I'm gonna make PCBs at cost, and we're gonna make no money, but if you need voice-verified

Springs, PCBs, you know, carbon screws, whatever the fuck, we will make it. voice-verified

And then just like just do it with a with an existing capital base because this is not impossible. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

This is why I think even uh us, you know, staunch no industrial policy folks are starting to go, well, what if we had a little bit of industrial policy? voice-verified

Just yeah, just a dusting on top, you know, because capitalism is is amazing and such a great engine, but it does not always foresee national security needs. voice-verified

zero. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

The the average person only cares about what they've recently seen on television and what their friend told them. voice-verified

Like we're not talking about voice-verified

I mean like I don't know I don't know if that brings me down. voice-verified

I mean if if if we only do things that the average person cares about, we're not gonna do much, but we will watch a lot of American Idol. voice-verified

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