Ken Venner

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352 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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Sourcery · Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

to just do a tour of the factory.

I wasn't looking for a job, but he invited me up.

I did this tour of the factory, which is in Hawthorne, downtown LA-ish.

And here they are building big metal objects, supposedly cheaper than anyone else in the world in downtown LA.

And I'm like, well, this is crazy, but I have manufacturing in my blood.

My entire career has been in manufacturing.

I'm like, oh, this is a pretty interesting place.

I have no idea who they are.

I don't know what they do for a living, because SpaceX wasn't a name back in those days.

And they're an hour at least away from where I live.

So he offered me a job and I'm like, I don't know.

I want to drive an hour up to this place.

But it was such an interesting story that Elon was going to save humanity from itself by colonizing another planet because we're going to screw this one up and we need to keep humankind going.

And it was another scaling opportunity.

So I thought about it, talked to my wife and in the end decided to bite the bullet, take it.

It was a great move.

Chief information officer working for Elon and Gwen, yep.

So I built all the systems and IT technology that drove that business.

Day started at five o'clock in the morning, driving up to Hawthorne, trying to miss the crowd, getting in by six, and then working with all the various groups in the organization to define how they were operating and making sure

We were not only collecting the information, but we were presenting design changes they were making up front and their impact on operations and making it very apparent very early what was going on so that you didn't get to a certain point and go, like, that design change just cost us $5 million to implement.

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