SendCutSend and the Future of Manufacturing: Speed, Scale, and Specialization, 523
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Why do intentional industry events matter for manufacturing conversations?
Welcome to this episode of Tracks of Passion on Mammoth Mountain. This is Nick Golner and I'm here with Mike Payne and Paul Van Meter.
We're gonna be laying down the tracks.
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How did SendCutSend achieve rapid scaling to hundreds of employees and massive order volume?
Here are your hosts.
What hiring philosophy does SendCutSend use to build talent instead of recruiting?
Let's make some chips.
We're at Mammoth Mountain at the Toolpath Machining Summit on the Summit and uh we're in one of these cool little like cabiny warm condo deals and there's a a photo book, coffee table book called Tracks of Passion and we were like, That's the name of the episode.
That's the inspiration for this show.
So hopefully we lay down some tracks of passion with Paul.
Well it is getting hot in here. I got my long underwear on 'cause I'm a I'm a wuss and it's cold outside. You gotta turn this fireplace on.
So no, it's been awesome. I I think just like a quick summary of the first day.
How does SendCutSend simplify manufacturing to improve speed, accessibility, and affordability?
I know how much I mean we're all good friends with Al and I know how much this means to him and how much work he's put into this and it's like I called him this morning I'm like, So, you feeling awesome? You should. He should. 'Cause it was a great first night and he should be super proud and yeah, I'm looking forward to the rest of this.
Yeah, the fact that I like I was thinking of it last night, like we were only four hours into the conference and like I already felt like I got a ton of value just in the first night.
it it's like hard not to have a good time when you're in this environment that the views are incredible and the vibe is great and then we're with our favorite people.
Yep.
What is the vision for creating a “Home Depot for manufacturing”?
So Yeah and there's hundreds of them, hundreds of machinists and shop owners here and yeah it's yeah I
wanna point out one thing they did that's totally this is like the anti trade show in a lot of ways. And You don't just like easily get to Mammoth.
How does SendCutSend address AI and manufacturing disruption?
No.
What leadership lessons on decision‑making, pivots, and learning quickly does SendCutSend share?
So if you're here, it's 'cause you were like very intentional about wanting to be here and I think that's awesome.
How does SendCutSend protect its culture while scaling at hyper‑growth speed?
And so you yeah, you don't just get like a million people like you do at some trade shows and you're not really sure who's engaged and who's not. Everyone here is like in love with this industry. So Yeah. Feels good. Depending
Feel it in the air. And it started good last night with a couple of panels. P Paul, you led one that was excellent. Did a great job. He plugged Haneg in one thing that he said. Yeah, some guy who shouted from the crowd.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was great.
But we have one of the other panelists that was on last night with us. So Jim, Phil, you guys want to introduce yourselves?
Yeah.
Uh I'm Jim Belosic,
uh founder of Senca Send.
Little company you may have heard of, Sun Cut Send, that's doing some cool things.
And um uh Phil Lynnshite, also of Send Cut Send.
Yeah. Well, we're excited about this one. We're excited about all episodes, but definitely this one, 'cause what you guys are doing is super, super, super cool. So
So when they asked uh uh how many well I guess you asked how many used send cut send, like three quarters of the crowd raised their hand. There was a lot of hands, yeah. That was lot of hands. So
was that more or less than you expected? Or did you not expect?
He knew, man. I nudged Dustin and I said, Did you see that flip? I had an idea I
had an idea and I was like, Mm, this could go really good or really bad. And it went really good. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, it was a lot.
Yeah, uh I guess we're we're in year eight right now, or it'll be eight years this year. November one. November one is our anniversary of the first order that we had. So almost eight years. It's you know, an overnight success takes ten years. Sure. So so we got a couple more years to go, but it's nice to finally see like you know, hey, people do know about us because it's really frustrating when you're trying to do something and you run into customer every day going, Oh, I I wish I would have heard about you guys years ago.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why do intentional industry events matter for manufacturing conversations?
0:00–0:42
2
How did SendCutSend achieve rapid scaling to hundreds of employees and massive order volume?
0:42–0:43
3
What hiring philosophy does SendCutSend use to build talent instead of recruiting?
0:43–1:21
4
How does SendCutSend simplify manufacturing to improve speed, accessibility, and affordability?
1:21–1:52
5
What is the vision for creating a “Home Depot for manufacturing”?
1:52–2:05
6
How does SendCutSend address AI and manufacturing disruption?
2:05–2:05
7
What leadership lessons on decision‑making, pivots, and learning quickly does SendCutSend share?
2:05–2:11
8
How does SendCutSend protect its culture while scaling at hyper‑growth speed?
2:11–1:08:50
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