Chris Williamson

And then the part is like

$400.

Great.

We just saved $12,000.

And then power ranking the things, like what is most expensive?

We're attacking that one.

What's the second most expensive?

We're attacking that one.

And this is how he's able to make these huge cost breakthroughs that then make things more and more and more available.

What have been the biggest cost breakthroughs?

What have been the ones that have completely unlocked SpaceX, Tesla?

I think it's a million little ones all stacked up.

That one example, $13,000 to $200,000 is more than two orders of magnitude, 500X or something.

There's a story about a latch that was supposed to be $1,000 or something, and a guy just looked at it and was like, kind of looks like a bathroom stall latch.

He went to Home Depot, bought a bathroom stall latch and was like,

did a little did a little magic magic on it it's like okay did it 50 bucks boom um it's just that scrappiness over every single part every single part every single part and you know it's just this simple things done over and over and over again with like ruthless intensity and

Really, it goes back to the quote that you brought up about feeling the pain of your decisions.

If there's a company making money by selling a part that they bought from a subcontractor for $100 and then selling it to $500, who cares?

If the ultimate buyer is the government who can just have a black box budget, fine, doesn't matter.

But if Elon comes in and says, I need to drop the