making complex metal assemblies for fast moving companies | Founder at RMFG
Fort Worth, Texas
Joined October 2020
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we make custom weldments for hardware startups
MIG and TIG
Aluminum, Steel, and Stainless Steel sheet and tube metal weldments
hmu if you need parts welded quickly
we’re in the first inning of robotics but so many people are willing to roll over and hand the entire industry to China
we can (and should) build robots in America
good dudes, moving fast.
very bullish
We've raised our $11M seed to build autonomous cargo planes at Poseidon Aerospace.
We are building the future of air freight with unmanned platforms, designed from the ground up to move cargo significantly cheaper and faster.
Led by Tamarack Global with participation from Drover Ventures, Draper Associates, Starship Ventures, Cade Ventures, GoAhead, Fortitude Ventures and angels.
- grow up building / working on cars
- don’t know what I want to do after high school, but I’m good at music
- go to music school
- work hard
- have first kid at 20
- drop out to work at gas station
- do plumbing, electrical, hvac for 7 years at gas station job
- build random weekend projects all the time
- decide to build a kegerator
- buy raspberry pi for kegerator
- start learning python
- end up loving programming
- go back to school for CS at nights
- work hard
- get software internship
- convince self they will give you full time role if you burn the boats (delusional)
- quit day job and drop out of school
- work hard
- bet pays off, go full time at software job
- work hard
- have more kids
- build random software projects
- one takes off
- get into YC
- work hard
- spend 1.5 years working on dev education sw
- GPT-3 makes it obvious it’s a bad idea
- decide to find new idea
- tired of pure software, need something real, need to find calling
- try multiple ideas, they don’t work
- get married to best woman on the planet
- ask hardware engineers what they need
- start RMFG
- work hard
- have our final kid
- sell many many parts
- work hard
- buy machines
- hire employees
- build tons of software
- work hard
- launch welding for customers
- work hard
- word of mouth explodes
- quickly become capacity constrained
- triple floorspace
not sure what happens next but I imagine there will be a lot more hard work
true honor to be able to play a small part in helping our customers build incredible hardware
we've been doing a ton of welded assemblies for robotics companies lately and it's so cool to see all the stuff being built right here in the US
Shoutout to @B_Garelick for these cool Fort Worth focused aviation clippings from his company Afterburner Archive
Needed some artwork for the new factory
Kenneth Cassel retweeted
People who say “we don’t want t-shirt factories in America” are mistaken about the very nature of technology.
What they mean is that we don’t want Capex intense, heavily labor dependent, low margin manufacturing.
But all of those attributes—capex, labor use, margin—are subject to technology, and therefore innovation.
By exporting the industry, you are excluding the possibility of American technologists changing the *way t-shirts are made* in such a way that it is very profitable to do here.
These sorts of changes are the inevitable direction of technology. Why would you count our civilization out of that?
this has been the longest / hardest working year of my life
things have gone extremely well
the reward is a longer / harder year next year
time to go faster
Zane needs killer engineers to join his team
Love the no BS hiring screen.
Go build something great with a badass team at Picogrid
Might be one of the last years we can convince the older kids to do a family costume
Enjoying it while we can
howie appreciation post
getting a lot of value from it
nice job @awwstn