Katherine Boyle

Is something gonna, you know, malfunction?

If you're only designing a system where you don't change it and where you keep it simple, it's gonna be far more successful in space.

It's gonna be far more successful on the road.

And like that process, he's now graduated

tens, tens, 20, thousands of people out of Tesla and SpaceX, these engineers who understand how to design for manufacturing and how to engineer, and that engineering and manufacturing have to be linked.

And for a very long time, that is not how people viewed how you build.

Actually, Vice President J.D.

Vance actually talked about this.

He came and spoke at our summit, and he said the biggest lie that America was ever told about manufacturing was that you could divorce the design from the manufacturing.

And of course, we did that.

Apple's the best example of this, where if you open up an iPhone, it says designed in California.

And there's this belief that you can, all of the premium jobs are the design jobs, and the manufacturing jobs are the cheap jobs, and you can outsource that anywhere.

But it's like actually linking them is the most important, that is the most important thing.

The design for manufacturing where you link those roles in a company is how you manufacture things that are simple, good, and you can do it as quickly as possible.

And so that's the philosophy of Elon Musk.

That's why everything he has done has been successful and a lot of other people who do manufacturing are not.

But now there's thousands of founders who've come out of his ethos and his, you know, kind of the gospel of Elon, right?

And they know how to build like that.

And so they get on the factory floor and that's what they do.

And the DoD can just, you know, they can just pick winners.