Denver Rayburn

1/ American manufacturers pay 3x more to finance equipment than their global competitors. It has nothing to do with pricing or tariffs, it's a regulatory accident from 2008 that no one has bothered to fix until now:

@KennethCassel 🫡🤝

Denver is my type of influencer

@CWNazarian the most authentic experience

@DenverRayburn aww you are already experiencing the lovely traffic crossing over onto 14th <3

Let’s go influence some industrial policy

The most mundane limit to building our first factory was finding and chasing the electricians

You can’t fix broken institutions but you can create parallel solutions that eventually usurp them

Private market workforce training solutions we’ll see more and more of

In my teens and 20's I would spend way too much time playing Starcraft and Civilization. Harvesting resources, building things, and expanding was super addictive to my brain - to an almost unhealthy degree. Later I realized that entrepreneurship and business is the ultimate game. It scratches the same itch for me (resources, building, expanding), but you're actually contributing to humanity at the end of the day, which can be much more fulfilling. Business is also much more positive sum than video games. In Starcraft, the other player has to lose for you to win. In business, there is competition, but in a growing market there can be multiple winners. And gains compound long term (it's a infinite game) instead of starting over each time. Now days I prefer to watch pros play video games to unwind, instead of playing video games myself. But a quick game can still be fun here and there to unwind. By contrast, the game of business is played over many decades.

Most suppliers are built for a dying industrial base. They can’t understand or service growth.

@Patrick09636701 @jakobdiepen Yep for now

@DenverRayburn @jakobdiepen Does the position only last 3 weeks?

@TXpaintbrush 🫡🤝

@DenverRayburn If I was 28 again and was going to stay in FI - getting into industrial would be a fun ride Hope you find your guy, my guy!

@preschuck Not yet but my textile dyeing guy went there!

@DenverRayburn I had an internship offer at Sandler O Neill back in the day lmao- have you been to the Wilson College of Textiles by any chance?

@preschuck Spiritually adjacent

@DenverRayburn How many FIG guys are there in the DC area lol

@danielmitchell @fedpoasts @chrishume_ @keaganwernicke @KJP @eliano @kaiarhodes @texheavy capacity constrained 😭

@fedpoasts @chrishume_ @keaganwernicke @KJP @eliano @kaiarhodes @DenverRayburn @texheavy this is the way we found a local embroidery shop who are doing most of our workwear and they let us bring our own blanks!

I'd love to see a Reindustrialize conference centered on *apparel* that's not $750 Dream team lineup (panel discussions?): @KJP @eliano @danielmitchell @kaiarhodes @DenverRayburn Josh from Soft Goods

@chrishume_ @KJP @eliano @danielmitchell @kaiarhodes 🫡

@MehtabKarta Man I hope you’re right 😂

@DenverRayburn I don't think it's really true lol. Nobody except people living in villages in quebec cares about this.

@KJP @lpcs43c Change is coming!

@lpcs43c Me too. Working on changing that with @DenverRayburn 🐑🇺🇸 making sweater here has been quite challenging the past 10 years

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@matt_slotnick @aphysicist @framework_auto 40 years in the wilderness

@matt_slotnick @aphysicist @framework_auto i've been on a heros journey my man

SWEATERGATE: we appreciate the enthusiasm for reindustrialize, but not overseas knockoffs. our friends at @framework_auto have been cooking with us for months on a very special piece of swag for attendees of the summit that's AMERICAN MADE. we weren't planning on showing it off quite yet, but...

@joshzoff @austinbishop @reindsummit @jakobdiepen @Senra_Systems @ShinkeiSystems Real people making real things 🤝

Online discourse and memes help spread the word but when the memes supersede the real work it’s hardcore negative signal. Thankfully plenty of real ones out there @austinbishop @reindsummit @DenverRayburn @jakobdiepen @Senra_Systems @ShinkeiSystems and Neion Bio among many others