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▶ 0:25 · Advanced Manufacturing · Wire harness market ripe for tech-enabled consolidation
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SpaceX's Former CIO: "Never Worked Harder in My Life"

2026-07-16 · 1 company · 3 thematic
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Spent 11 years at Broadcom scaling from $400M to $8.6B revenue and 52 M&A deals, then served as CIO at SpaceX scaling from 1,000 to 9,000 employees and 1 to 40 boosters/year by building custom ERP platform Warp Drive. Now joining Sensoria Systems to transform wire harness manufacturing. Also owns A Tor Wines in Sonoma since 2009.

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