Nick Talken

Now, there's still a wall that you have to go through.

You still have to sign up.

They're going to validate that you're an actual legitimate customer and not maybe a competitor or something like that.

But that's super exciting because now we're not just changing how a single company invents.

You can start to think about how the entire supply chain events.

And for us as consumers, that's what we really need.

Solving one company's problem isn't going to solve how the entire manufacturing industry moves forward together.

I mean, it's a big topic.

I think, you know, I'm a big fan of manufacturing, right?

I started Albert in a lab bench in a trailer in the backyard in California, right?

And so if we didn't believe in like getting your hands dirty and making something for yourself, I don't think this company would ever exist.

And so-

I think that there's a big reason to try to have localized manufacturing.

There's sustainability reasons of not shipping things all over the world.

There's also competitive advantage, national security issues, all that good stuff.

So I think we're seeing a big trend.

I hope we don't see it where we start to build walls between companies or between countries.

That's not good for the global economic system.

But I don't think we're seeing a lot of that.

At least my vantage point in the industry is we're seeing people just reinvest in areas where they maybe haven't invested before, like in local manufacturing.