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During a clear walk on West Cliff with Mark Sloan, VP of Manufacturing at Mantle, we explored how metal 3D printing is evolving from a prototyping tool into a production enabler for hardware-based products.

I enjoyed a scenic and insightful get together with Robert Bisaillon and Wayne Miller in Sausalito. It got me thinking about how much high technology hardware product development has evolved over the past few decades.

We’re proud to sponsor Build Better 2025 — Instrumental’s annual summit for engineering and operations leaders building complex electronics across industries. This year’s event will be hosted aboard the historic USS Hornet in the Bay Area, and we’d love for you to join us there.

From the late 90s to the mid-2000s, I had a front-row seat to the immense global pressures facing US-based manufacturers while running operations for Paramit Corporation, a Silicon Valley high-tech manufacturing company. Despite those headwinds, we grew Paramit from $12 million to $100 million, eventually leading to a $1 billion acquisition. It was a true business and financial success story, [...]

I recently walked with Ronald Westhauser, the former COO at Redaptive, an Energy-as-a-Service provider that funds and installs energy-saving and energy-generating equipment. We discussed the evolving world of AI.

Today’s walk was with Kyle Doerksen, founder of Future Motion and creator of the Onewheel. Kyle shared valuable insights into the evolving consumer mobility market.