REINDUSTRIALIZE SUMMIT
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REINDUSTRIALIZE SUMMIT
@reindsummit
Official account of the Reindustrialize Summit.








sometimes I wonder what all those parts we’ve made are out there doing in the world


A prefabricated foundation built in *one day* The rest of the structure built in just six weeks. Total construction cost $685,000 ($118/sqft). Get prefab working at scale, and it could transform affordable housing!



just found out that factory icons like that because before electricity they built them with roof skylights facing south for natural sunlight

A lot of people talk about the WWII mass production miracle. “I’m going to talk about WWI— when the US failed to deploy even a single US-designed fighter to the front.” Palantir’s @Madeline_Zimm, co-author of Mobilize with @ssankar, on lessons from WWI’s failures: “Money was not enough.” “We entered the war late, but when we tried to do a mass production push of mainly foreign designs, we were unable to do it because the aircraft at that time were literally— craft. They were made of wood and fabric.” “Where are the parallel to today? Our missiles are more like a craft, boutique industry and haven’t been designed for mass production.” “If we want to mass produce them, money is not going to be enough.” “We need to totally reimagine how we design and produce these things, and the most productive companies need to produce.” Via @ReaganInstitute


. You thought I was joking about Reindustrializing America. I was not. Tune in March 20th for the the start - not the end - of the largest private Marshall plan ever devised. Alabama and F4 is the start. Winning the Production war is the end.


Last year, we invested in @Monumental_Labs. They use AI and robotics to reduce the cost of stone fabrication by 90%. Construction tech is our game and while I think what they are doing with art and sculpture fab is amazing, the bull case for ML imo was doing building scale construction with stone. Essentially, reviving a dormant material type for type I construction to compete directly with steel and concrete. Before investing, I had to answer a question that's been nagging me for years: exactly when and why did we stop building with natural materials like stone? Where did beauty in our built environment go to die? It's mostly always been an economic story.








