Theres another room in the hindu and were going to be joining them afterwards for happy hour so reductions on how to get there and to minimal and socialize will come at the end of this series on the soushgs. I want to introduce the ceo type a machine it was founded and run here or rather there in tech shop they make 3d printers and theyre on the verge from having started and now stroirl to be a normal big Thriving Company it started off with me i had a 3d printer i was disappointed with and people offered me money that was about two years ago now. And yeah. Were up to 18 members of staff were moving out and were about to roll outlets new generation machine and its great in that kind of looking the giant mountains. If im not mistaken youre the Second Company to be kicked off of tech shop for being successful finally, theres we have robby from planet labs who does, you know, Rocket Science among others and robby tell us more. Absolutely. We at that planet labs design and build and manufa
And its great in that kind of looking the giant mountains. If im not mistaken youre the Second Company to be kicked off of tech shop for being successful finally, theres we have robby from planet labs who does, you know, Rocket Science among others and robby tell us more. Absolutely. We at that planet labs design and build and manufacture observation satellites. We put those staeltsz in space and take pictures of the planet. In december of this year were going to launch the work out are words largest of 28 satellites this will help us go insight into the planet. But from the standpoint of manufacturing and where were here and markers theres actually our shared investors and they had a blog on investors going pro and we were doing the same thing but we started pro tipping and building a satellite in our garage and we built them differently. Then when it got to a point of turning it into a real company and receiving venture cpa capital we moved to San Francisco this is argue community an
Bell curve its hard to do that and high school enterpriseships are hard unless you wanted to expose user if the city wanted to do this it would under write the insurance to lower the risk of taking high school inheritance. The average intern that comes to work with us goes on to university it makes an unbelievable difference its disappointing its so difficult i want to add one nice thing about this partnership they put the kids on jew ma so maybe thats a step in the right direction because they place them only the president ial i have to ask a dumb question we when what are the rules. They just graduated i think they do that when we leave. Can somebody give us three or four things we should know about interning. We were not entrepreneurial enough so we had had program basically, they came to a tech shop kind of event and met this awesome High School Kid whos dad was a member of tech soft and the kid said i wanted to work in a machine shop so our machinist said great and then we got pho
Whats your biggest problem whats the one thing that bothers you the most and if you could be mayor for a minute what would you change start there i can do one wearing two different hats. As a manufacturer my biggest problem and concern is not hiring the top level engineers, you know, software prarmdz. It is 90 in high quality people who know how to make a high quality product and it well finished and people that do that people need to a debug machines. So we have a gap if the manufacturing work in the middle so the operators are not going to change the production so that worries me. As an individual im worried about the workshops were creating look like their hiring people and they employ people to pack things in boxes at the low end of the spectrum but its dprerg the concern were the hallowing out of the middle class. I dont think enough people talk about it honestly and if i was mayor of the city and if i was trying to make a city hewitt and vibrate this encompass a little bit counte