Delian Asparouhov
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4,545 appearances
25 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 13 May
Delian Asparouhov’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For a long time, they were in just in the like RD production grind, like trying to figure out basically like how to make deconomics of the business work, you know, switching from like what were originally quick turn small prototype contracts into like production, multi-year, you know, basically large contracts.
And in Q1 last year, there were two things that happened that just like made it very clear to me that it hit like my spidey instincts of like, oh
This is like the point that I'm supposed to come in and do the series C.
Like my whole job was to have done the seed and then wait for this exact moment.
The two things that happened were one, they just got through production hell basically.
Like the economics started making sense.
They were producing, you know, it's gonna be way more volume.
And then the second thing was, you know, um
We talk about this a lot, but the defense industry is obviously going through a huge shakeup and there's a whole set of you know neo primes that are coming out that are going to get anointed.
And Hadrian was clearly in this transition point from what was previously just purely like a back-end sort of supplier of you know sort of parts and a vendor into uh somebody that was becoming more of like a strategic, you know, neo-prime that was going to be co-betting alongside others, but as a neo-prime that is focused specifically on production, right?
So if we think about groups like, you know.
Androl, Ceronic, Shield AI, um, you know, name your favorite basically, you know, you know, mock industries, name all your favorite, you know, neo primes.
They all roughly follow the same model, which is like they are product developers fundamentally, right?
Like they go and like design network.
They may do a decent amount of production and assembly of themselves, but they still are reliant on like out of, you know, sort of house, you know, sort of vendors for a vast majority of their like, you know, subcomponents.
Yeah.
Adrian fundamentally is a very different type of neoprime, right?
They are a neo prime that is explicitly focused on production.
They do not produce basically like end products themselves, they only amplify others' end products.
But that is a significant bottleneck that the you know defense you know department or you know war department is looking to go unlock and is leaning on a Hadrian for a wide variety of you know sort of programs, both directly, you know, as Hadrian as a contractor, as well as like co-bidders alongside other neo primes.
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