One question about where America's smartest people spend their time changed what he decided to build. Guest: Zane Hengsperger, Founder & CEO, NOX Metals Link to episode (# 429) https://youtu.be/0ex2nrVk4jU
By his count, one F-35 takes 7,100 mom-and-pop machine shops to build, and his company is a bet on every one of them. Guest: Zane Hengsperger, Founder & CEO, NOX Metals Link to episode (# 429) https://youtu.be/0ex2nrVk4jU
He keeps one number in his head for American manufacturing, and it starts with what China can do tomorrow. Guest: Zane Hengsperger, Founder & CEO, NOX Metals Link to episode (# 429) https://youtu.be/0ex2nrVk4jU
A founder who runs his company on AI still thinks one job survives all of it. Guest: Zane Hengsperger, Founder & CEO, NOX Metals Link to episode (# 429) https://youtu.be/0ex2nrVk4jU
A Detroit metals startup gives equity to everyone on the floor, including the forklift driver and the janitor. Guest: Zane Hengsperger, Founder & CEO, NOX Metals Link to episode (# 429) https://youtu.be/0ex2nrVk4jU
This week Chris sits down with Zane Hengsperger, Founder and CEO of NOX Metals, a metal supplier in Detroit he started in 2025. NOX buys metal from the mill, cuts it to the exact size a machine shop needs, and ships it out. The whole operation runs on software the…
He says the first principles and automation stories are real, but he thinks SpaceX mostly comes down to who they let in the door, and the culture once they are in. Guest: Justin Lopas, Co-Founder & COO, Base Power **YouTube** Link to episode (# 426) https://youtu.be/VurXc5Pvzyo
He leans toward build versus buy, and he says the reason comes down to what the company pays per kilowatt hour. Guest: Justin Lopas, Co-Founder & COO, Base Power **YouTube** Link to episode (# 426) https://youtu.be/VurXc5Pvzyo
He says pushing speed forces people to skip problems that probably did not need solving anyway. Guest: Justin Lopas, Co-Founder & COO, Base Power Link to episode (# 426) https://youtu.be/VurXc5Pvzyo
How a land-rich, capital-disciplined developer decides what is actually worth buying. Guest: Lucy Billingsley, Co-Founder at Billingsley Company Link to episode (# 428) https://youtu.be/7KGAmgLqWos
Her one-word read on single-family housing right now, and the rate math behind it. Guest: Lucy Billingsley, Co-Founder at Billingsley Company Link to episode (# 428) https://youtu.be/7KGAmgLqWos
A developer who was born in Dallas on how completely unrecognizable DFW has become. Guest: Lucy Billingsley, Co-Founder at Billingsley Company Link to episode (# 428) https://youtu.be/7KGAmgLqWos
A real estate developer went to Claude, described the whole company, and asked what it should be doing with AI. Guest: Lucy Billingsley, Co-Founder at Billingsley Company Link to episode (# 428) https://youtu.be/7KGAmgLqWos
The unglamorous work behind every zoning approval, from staff to council to the neighbors. Guest: Lucy Billingsley, Co-Founder at Billingsley Company Link to episode (# 428) https://youtu.be/7KGAmgLqWos
A developer bought a man-made lake for 50 cents a foot, then drained half of it to build lakefront. Guest: Lucy Billingsley, Co-Founder at Billingsley Company Link to episode (# 428) https://youtu.be/7KGAmgLqWos
This week Chris sits down with Lucy Billingsley, Co-founder and Partner of Billingsley Company, the Dallas development firm she started with her husband Henry in 1978. Lucy is the daughter of Trammell Crow, who built the largest real estate development company in America. She left the family business because she…
Why he's running the same gigafactory strategy that built Tesla, just for homes instead of cars. Guest: Riley Meik, Co-founder & CEO at The American Housing Corporation Link to episode (# 421) https://youtu.be/hThX4TKYLh0
He says the money management business is being forced to consolidate, and real estate is heading the same way. Guest: Michael Levy, CEO of Crow Holdings Link to episode (# 425) https://youtu.be/V9KAl0bLg_Q
He explains what he thinks it would actually take to make American cities beautiful again. Guest: Riley Meik, Co-founder & CEO at The American Housing Corporation Link to episode (# 421) https://youtu.be/hThX4TKYLh0
Putting data centers in space is checkmate. Guest: Jim Cantrell, Co-founder & CEO, Phantom Space Link to episode (# 427) https://youtu.be/5MzBWpLWFkU
The trip to buy Russian rockets failed. That is when Elon Musk said he would build the rocket himself. Guest: Jim Cantrell, Co-founder & CEO, Phantom Space Link to episode (# 427) https://youtu.be/5MzBWpLWFkU
He is convinced SpaceX would not exist if the Moscow meetings had gone well. Guest: Jim Cantrell, Co-founder & CEO, Phantom Space Link to episode (# 427) https://youtu.be/5MzBWpLWFkU
This week Chris sits down with Jim Cantrell, Co-founder & CEO of Phantom Space. He co-founded Phantom Space in 2019, where he is now trying to mass produce rockets. He was employee number four at SpaceX and its first VP of Business Development. Jim is one of a handful of…
Asked whether a data center in 90 days is just an Elon thing, he says most of it is brute force and smart sequencing. Guest: Justin Lopas, Co-Founder & COO, Base Power Link to episode (# 426) https://youtu.be/VurXc5Pvzyo