Cody James 🇺🇸
@codyaims
Founder @tryopenx Robotics/NC programmer // Aerospace & Defense
Kelly Johnson, the famed aircraft designer that founded skunk works, didn’t get his pilots license until age 62
>looking to reindustrialize >ask investor if their reindustrialization portco is software or hardware >investor doesn’t understand, pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is software and what is hardware >investor laughs and says “it’s a good portco sir” >its software
If we were a serious community - we would have kept this all low profile, acted normal, and invited him back next year Then advertise a “Special Access Programs” area, which is conveniently unlocked, and allow him to wake the pc Could even add a cam to get the reaction lol
CAUTIONARY INFOSEC TALE - STAY ALERT 🚨 at @reindsummit (the "save America conference") this week, a non-US individual with deep ties to China showed up at several events - despite not having a conference ticket. several US-based founder friends shared that this person…
do you guys remember when CAD got some funding from the YC backed sf college types then we all made fun of them on x dot com for not knowing anything about mfg, and now we don’t hear from them much
Far less attractive, but the chubby little brother “X-44a”
X-44 MANTA skunkworks
I dislike NAM’s workforce statistics as I find them dishonest - Salary is cherry picked categories that are inflated by including cash value of benefits - Healthcare *eligible* does not mean has or covers - Openings are often misleading. What if I say I’m hiring 500 techs?
You don’t need a four-year degree and tens of thousands of dollars in student debt to land a good-paying job. ➡️ apprenticeship.gov THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
the masculine urge to learn japanese and become a robotics expert
Aerospace grandpa telling you his tenth story of cultivating desert power

Tonight at @reindsummit 2.0 in Detroit I am speaking about shipbuilding, sea power and the fight to restore America’s maritime industrial base. Rebuilding our industrial base is a matter of national security. Tune in below to watch my keynote address live at 5 p.m. (ET).
REINDUSTRIALIZE 2.0 Livestream Links for Wednesday July 16th (Day 1): > Stream 2...1:00pm to 5:30pm ET - x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Official preview with my next guest, Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, Isaiah Taylor. @isaiah_p_taylor