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Work with @KennethCassel
I'm hiring a former founder for a very important role here at RMFG
Head of Factory Software.
In person at our factory in Fort Worth, TX.
This is an individual contributor role and you will be spending the vast majority of your time building software, not managing others.
What are we doing?
We're building the fastest contract manufacturer for robotics and advanced hardware companies.
We're getting there by launching multiple online-first manufacturing capabilities and letting customers combine those into much more valuable assemblies, eventually full robots.
We have a crazy roadmap and we've accomplished a ton with an insanely small non-production team (Me, one mech engineer, one former hardware founder leading growth, and one customer support person).
It's very important to me that we keep this lean / scrappy DNA as we scale.
Some reasons why you would want to work with us
- We're growing incredibly fast. Revenue up ~10x since start of year. All important charts going up and to the right at a compounding m/m rate
- We're growing (physically) incredibly fast. More than doubled factory floor space from 17k to 40k sq ft. This time last year we were in 4.5k sq ft.
- We have cool customers. People putting stuff into outer space, nuclear technology, countless robot companies, guys making great money selling weird niche components that we make, public companies, and everything in between.
- Your work will be immediately impactful and important. There will be days where you will push code changes that you physically can see the effects propagated to the floor quickly. Some days I know that I just made a multi-million dollar commit, seeing how much money it saves us on a process, or what rework it prevents, etc.
- Your work will help make the American dream possible for hundreds of factory workers here at RMFG. Today we have ~20 production staff, and multiple are starting families and buying homes because of the work we provide.
- Meaningful amounts of equity
- We are a venture-backed hardware startup that is making more money than it burns (highly unusual)
- A ton of incredibly smart people have backed us. (YC, Patrick Collison, Kyle Vogt, etc).
- You will work on hard real world engineering challenges
What I'm looking for
- evidence of extraordinary software ability
- someone who has touched grass
- relentless, killer, ambitious founder mindset
send me an email w/ evidence of your skills
kenneth at domain name
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The modern John Henry (@frankie_lapenna) stepped into the ring with a T800...
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Being in China made me realize that America is the greatest place in the world to be a scum bag.
In China, be like everyone else, your life is easy, the Luckin Coffee will flow. If you're weird or suspicious you'll probably be "re-educated" or chucked in a wood chipper.
In America, we will bend over backwards inventing possible scenarios in which maybe you could be innocent.
I think this is a good way for a government to think but the wrong way for a society to think. Shame is ok, good even, if it stops you from pissing on my door.
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The biggest area that China lacks: Cheese.
There's basically zero cheese outside of Mickey D's. I get there's some history there of cheese causing ladudu, but the lack of cheese would be the single largest negative to daily life if I moved to Shenzehn.
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There's one sentence in this that demonstrates the youthfulness of the humanoid market. In this basic intro to actuators and their trade-offs @michellelsun provides actuator metrics, the description for one:
Can the robot sustain the _demo_ workload?
The emphasis is mine, but a telling word choice in a industry that should be more focused on shipping than demo'ing.
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This was the most dystopian thing I saw in China.
This is a model of massive data collection center. A human walks into the cell and demonstrates a task for Physical AI. The only one overseeing it, a robot.
I immediately thought of Ready Player One.
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H2 is so ugly they ship it with a plastic bag on its head.
This thing is nightmare fuel. While I was in China they told me they have one with deeper eye sockets.
I don't think that's the problem.
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I came back from China last week. I've let my thoughts simmer for a bit. I say this as a patriot: There is a lot we could learn from a tactical stand point.
In business you don't have to innovate everything, sometimes your competitors will create something obviously good. Your job then is to fast follow. America, we've got some fast following to do.
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