David Kirtley

A classic one that still to this day, I push the team on is, again, thinking about how do you move fast, eBay.

We buy, and I don't know that I've ever said this publicly.

Oh, boy.

We spend a lot of time on eBay.

You got to move.

And here's an example.

We use a vacuum pump because in these systems, you got to pull out all the air.

So we use a vacuum pump called a turbomolecular vacuum pump.

This is a commodity.

This is used in a variety of particle accelerators, scientific applications.

There are many of them.

They're robust.

They last a long time.

They also have a very small supply chain.

So if you want to buy a brand new turbo molecular pump, you can, and you might wait nine months from the manufacturer to go make one for you and deliver it for you.

But I can go today and get the same model that was made 10 years ago and get it on eBay today, right now.

However, it might not work.

Like you don't know yet.

There's some, you know, how well it works or how clean it is or any of those things.

And so what we do is you don't go to eBay to save money.