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How Top Aerospace Executives Set the Vision, Grow Their Business & Develop Talent
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Inside Albers Aerospace: Building a “Next-Gen Prime” w/ John Albers (opens the original)
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In the defense industrial base, everyone knows the primes dominate the big programs, but that leaves a huge gap in the middle. Startups don’t scale, the primes can’t move fast, and decades of consolidation have hollowed out the space in between. For years, everyone has recognized this gap, but no one has really solved it. The primes are getting bigger, the small innovators get attention but struggle to scale, and the middle tier keeps shrinking. Meanwhile, the need for companies that can deliver
Aerospace is Losing Key Electronics to Data Centers: How Executives Can Respond (opens the original)
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“The AI data center build-out is already the biggest infrastructure project, inflation-adjusted, that we've ever undertaken as a society.” That’s Sebastian Schaal, co-founder and Managing Director of Luminovo, an AI software company specializing in electronics supply chain management. I wanted to talk to Sebastian about how executives respond when key components are seeing 20X the demand of pre-2022 levels. What You’ll Discover In This Episode How 20-year old electronics have become a hidden ris
From Manager to C-Suite: The Hardest Transition in Leadership w/ Bill Koch [Replay] (opens the original)
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The transition from being a rockstar in your vertical to leading at the C-suite level is one of the hardest jumps in modern business. Not because you aren’t capable, but because the job changes faster than anyone prepares you for, and the timeline to become effective has collapsed from years to months. You used to have a multi-year runway to listen, learn, and settle in. Now the proving ground has accelerated, and you’re expected to think enterprise-wide, set direction, shape culture, and operat
IPOs Are Back and Changing Aerospace Deals, Here’s Why w/ Nick Fazioli [Replay] (opens the original)
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Aerospace has always been a cyclical industry, one sector up, another down, capital moving cautiously between them. That’s not what’s happening right now. Every major sector is ripping at the same time, for completely different reasons. Commercial is coming back online. Aftermarket and MRO have been running hot since COVID. Defense is being pulled forward by geopolitical demand. Business aviation has settled into a stronger, more stable “new normal.” It’s rare to see this kind of synchronized mo
Inside FDH Aero’s Billion-Dollar Distribution Strategy w/ Ian Walsh [Replay] (opens the original)
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Most people think the aerospace supply chain is crawling back to normal after the pandemic. But that’s not what’s happening. The industry is scaling in a permanently elevated demand environment. Commercial aviation is rebuilding. Defense budgets are structurally higher. New platforms like EVTOL, drones, hypersonics, and space are moving into production. This isn’t a strain; it’s a structural transformation. And in a world obsessed with engines and airframes, the real leverage sits in the smalles
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