ken venner

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Legendary manufacturing IT executive: scaled Broadcom from 1,000 to 10,000 employees and $400M to $8.6B revenue over 11 years with 52 M&A deals; then CIO at SpaceX (reporting to Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell) where he built Warp Drive, scaling from 1,000 to 9,000 employees and 1 to 40 boosters/year. Joined Senra to replicate scaling playbook. Also owns Tour Wines winery in Sonoma since 2009.

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Ken Venner joins Senra as CIO to replicate Broadcom/SpaceX scaling playbook

Cable harnesses are a large, fragmented, unautomated business that is the backbone of all modern hardware; Ken Venner's track record scaling Broadcom (1K to 10K employees, $400M to $8.6B, 52 M&A) and SpaceX (1K to 9K employees, 1 to 40 boosters/year via Warp Drive) directly applies to Senra's factory replication model.

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Ken Venner joins Senra as CIO to replicate Broadcom/SpaceX scaling playbook
Cable harnesses are a large, fragmented, unautomated business that is the backbone of all modern hardware; Ken Venner's track record scaling Broadcom (1K to 10K employees, $400M to $8.6B, 52 M&A) and SpaceX (1K to 9K employees, 1 to 40 boosters/year via Warp Drive) directly applies to Senra's factory replication model.
"Cable harnesses is such a large fragmented unautomated business and yet it's the backbone to everything that's being built today. There isn't an autonomous vehicle or high-tech pi…"
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