High-Tech Manufacturing Is White Hot | Uphoff on Industry

The Big Themes:



Manufacturing is hot again: In this country
there’s a Renaissance, I love it because I joined Thomas four
years ago with the idea it is going to get white hot again.


The millennial generation: Young people in
particular are starting to imagine what their future might look
like, and what manufacturing provides for them that other
technology doesn’t.


The Dollar Shave Club: The technology enabled
the ability to create a subscription business out of razors
into a retail outlet of my brand of razor.


If you're a horizontal player: At some point
you’ve got to understand that your entry into a marketplace
needs to be vertical.



 


The Big Quotes:


“So the idea that a computer company could be a car company and a
car company could be a computer company is not a reach today.
It's a reality.”


 


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