Jordan Black
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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And I went to go to Mexico and Puerto Rico and Costa Rica and all over the country to find wire harness factories.
And it was all very similar of just wooden tables, a process of changes to the Cold War, and just this really fragmented market.
And companies like SpaceX were really struggling.
I went to Mexico to see how they did wire harnessing for automotive.
and spoke to the production floor and was like, can I hop on the production line?
And I've been doing harnessing at this point for like five plus years at SpaceX.
I like to think I'm one of the experts in it.
I've seen it from design manufacturing on the supply chain side of it.
And I couldn't even build a harness down in this like very high rate environment.
And it would really kind of open my eyes to is like if someone like myself
who has like studied this process and has really gotten in depth with it, can't even go build a harness, then something's fundamentally broken, which like we're not giving the right tools to the technicians.
We don't have the right infrastructure.
We don't have the right systems in place.
We don't have the right everything.
And there's a death by a thousand paper cuts.
And I describe harnessing as kind of like the TSA of manufacturing, which like there's just so many things to fix, but it's like this never ending process on that side of it too.
And so
quit my job with Ben, my co-founder, who was also at SpaceX and helped write a lot of the application software for Starlink that helped scale their production from day one.
And we started my apartment building harnesses on our carpet floor.
And so from quitting SpaceX
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