America stopped building THING.
Gradually, quietly, one shuttered FACILITY at a time, while our best talent went to work RESPECTABLE CAREER. Software ate the world. But the world is made of MATERIAL.
And now China makes ALARMING STATISTIC.
INCUMBENTS can’t fix this. They are structurally incapable of thinking on a long enough time horizon. Industrial capacity won’t come back by accident. No one is coming to save us.
click to reveal our answersAmerica stopped building things.
But the most important blank is people.
For the better part of half a century, most of our best and brightest have pursued careers outside of Industry. Not because of a character flaw, but because they are smart enough to do the math. Software and finance paid because it gave one person absurd leverage.
Technology has finally put that kind of leverage within reach of the physical world, and we are betting the rest of our lives on facilitating that paradigm shift.
That’s why we started Bobby B Enterprises in Charleston, SC. We’re putting exceptional people in a room and figuring out how America builds big things again. We’re starting with maritime manufacturing because we believe it is a 10 out of 10 on the importance and the difficulty scale. But this is just the start of our story.
There are dozens of companies writing their own version of the page above. Hell yeah! This isn’t a market to corner, it’s a country to rebuild. And it needs far more players than there are today. Let’s figure it out together. contact@bobbyb.com.