David Kirtley
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Podcast Appearances
It does.
It's cheaper and that's great.
But you can also go and get three of those turbo pumps that are sitting on eBay right now.
Bring those in-house.
Test them.
Maybe only one of them meets the specifications you need.
But guess what?
You just got a pump in two weeks instead of nine months.
Yeah.
And you got it.
It's in the door and it's operational and it's running.
and you're moving.
And everywhere you can, you still have to deliver the working product.
That cannot sacrifice the quality.
But do you really need the shiny brand new one when the used one is going to do the job?
And we think about that across the board.
Do we take the best plasma diagnostic, the most sophisticated plasma diagnostic in the world that has an accuracy of within 3%?
And it's going to take me three years and maybe a few million dollars to go build.
Or do I take a technology from 10 years ago that's 5% accurate, that's good enough that I can go build in a month?
And the answer for us, for Heliana, for the team that we put together is that scrappy.