00:57:01 · Ty Morse, Jim Belosic
[00:57:01] S0: How do you think about basically building capacity in the event that you have this like surge demand and you need to fulfill in a short period of time? How do you actually do that? You always need some surge capacity because, as a [00:57:15] S1: as a on demand manufacturer, we have no idea what we're gonna do that day. We might do a 100 parts or we might do a million. I don't know what people are gonna order. So we have flexibility built into the system, but there's only so much surge you can take. So being able to have, you know, 10 times the surge capacity is it's hard to do because then you have idle equipment and idle equipment doesn't amortize very well. You know, you want those machines running the best possible uptime. But part of being quick turn is we have to have surge capacity whether we want it or not because we have to have redundancy as well. We have to take machines offline, for planned or unplanned maintenance. So there's always some bit in there. You just, we want additional surge capacity, but then we fill it with demand. I don't know. It's like this. It's a very difficult like, needle to thread. Just, it never ends. I don't know if there's a right answer. It's this algorithm that I don't think we can ever solve, but we're trying. [00:58:22] S0: One of the things that you do that I haven't seen very many other people do is you're like default skeptical. You have a very high bar for the people that you allow close to you and who you let into your life. But once they're in, they're really in. Why did you kinda come to that philosophy?
00:58:35 · Jim Belosic
[00:58:35] S1: I have one of the best bullshit meters that I know of. I don't know where that comes from. But man, I can I can just sense if some? Someone's not Inauthenticity. Yeah. Yeah. It's... It it triggers me. I'm I'm a pretty good salesman. You know, I like to sell and I like to build relationships and everything, but I always do it in a trustworthy way because I'm so sensitive to when people are lying to me or they have an ulterior motive or something like that. So yeah, default skeptical. I guess I am. I was gonna say I'm actually incredibly trusting in the first interaction. I'm like, gonna be best friends, you know, or we're gonna get married, whatever. I'm I'm super excited. And then as the relationship goes on, if I see something, all of a sudden my radar will go up. And, you know, maybe I'll have to push back a little bit and then earn it back. So it's kinda like Dunning Kruger where I'm like, this is gonna be great. And then I see a little something and I have to reset. But being skeptical allows you to, I don't know, have some some backup plans, I guess. I'm like, okay, I thought this was gonna be really great. I saw something that maybe I'm unsure of. I'm gonna research it. But then immediately I'm starting to plan like, if this doesn't work out, what am I gonna do? I guess I do that with people. I do it with equipment. I do it with buildings, whatever. It's wow, this new building is gonna be incredible. And then we get in there and we're like, oh God, it's full of raccoons. So I'm like a little skeptical And then build it back up at the same time knowing, okay, if we have to punch out of here, you know, I have a backup.
01:00:27 · Ty Morse, Jim Belosic
[01:00:27] S0: Let's end on what are you most excited about over the next like twelve to twenty four months for the business? [01:00:33] S1: I'm excited that I get to go back to doing what I do best, which is build. I have a much longer leash now. I can can run faster than I ever have. And then I'm really excited that I have all this experience. We've done it before. We just had constraints. I have a little less constraint now. So I don't know. I'm excited for the impact that we're gonna have on manufacturing in The US. I'm excited for the positive impact we're gonna have for our customers. I'm excited to kinda show the roadmap, the template of, Hey guys, if I can do it, anyone can do it. I don't know if this plan is gonna work out perfectly, but hopefully it does and people can model it and say, Hey, let's do it the SendCutSendWay. You know, let's build something that's really good and it can survive on its own two legs. And then you add a little rocket fuel and then you do more and more and more. I think it's the way to build a business. I think it's the way to do manufacturing in The U S I hope that we're an example that people look up to. I don't know. I'm super happy. I'm happy to be done fundraising. I'm happy to go back to hauling ass and making cool stuff.