Rangeview CEO Cameron Schiller: America needs a thousand more factories — not tools for factories, actual factories

should have gotten the suit today. Huge miss. Anyway, new video from Range View. We have the CEO Cameron Schiller in the studio in the TVP Ultra Jump. Welcome to the stream, Cameron. How you doing? What's happening? Hey guys, good to see you. Uh, I have so many questions. Are you Did you act in that? Are you in that?

I am not in that. That was a big You're not in the suit. What? You got to How I I thought you financed this whole thing. I thought you'd made this happen and you didn't get a cameo. Got to put yourself in. The machines got cameos, right? The machines got cameos and I believe that last scene takes place at Range View HQ.

Is that correct? Did I clock it correctly? That is correct. That takes place for technology demonstrator factory. We're running two. We got a production facility down the street which we'll see in some some new videos coming out. But that was at this facility which we've been at.

Uh and now we're just busting out the seam. So we've got a we've got to move and you'll see a bunch of content from that new one. That place is sick. They used to build space shuttle engines there. That's awesome. Uh yeah, the space shuttle shot was fantastic.

I mean, Jason Carman, he puts on a clinic every time he drops a video. Uh what what inspired it? What what was the message you want to send? Is this just is this a recruiting film? I noticed like the the follow-up post was like, "Come work for us.

This is not like a an ad that you'll be running to get customers necessarily, or is it just kind of like vision film? " What was what was the thinking? Yeah, I mean, it's really a message to America. I think it's a it's a wakeup call. It's a question of who we really want to be as a country. What do we want to do?

Right? I think I mean that was a big part of my life growing up going back and forth to China.

And you know I saw the American dream in in China when I was there saw people from the the center of the country move to the coast to work extremely hard make a life for themsel and when I came back to America growing up I just didn't see that here and um and I think we have to bring it back.

I think for national security reasons I think across the globe. The the real question is, you know, can can America bring it back because we need to make a lot of parts very soon. And this is less so about range view. I mean, America needs a thousand range views.

This is about people that are considering making a big pivot in their life to work on something that matters to the world. And uh when you say make a lot of parts very soon, is that specifically like uh like defense tech and warfare?

Or is it are you seeing are you worried about great power competition or is it more like we won't get the next generation of 911 or like the next the the next great physical product won't be made without the one that I care about the most is the second one. Um but the first one's definitely very real. Yeah.

Um if you think about it, you know, America did some amazing stuff. the F-17. We invented stealth technology, the SR71, uh, all that stuff happened in America. And that happened because I think of factory towns. I mean, I'm calling in from Alagundo. This is a town that literally runs on jet fuel.

Like, there is a refinery that's right next door that's pumping jet fuel out, you know, under under this city to to to feed to LAX, which is on the other side of the city. And you feel it in the air. Like, there's something that happens when a community wants to be a part of something great in the world.

And when we look around, everything around us has been made in China now. And with it, I you know, with it slipping, I I think a great calling to be a to be a part of something amazing has uh has slipped as well. So, we we really need to bring that back. We're going to do that with uh with parts.

We're going to do that with uh new technologies that enable uh factory towns all across the country. Uh I mean, I think it's super What's going on behind you? There's like some scrolling image. What is that? Uh, might be. I mean, we've got a lot of screens in there. Oh, is this a screen? It's like a TV or something.

I mean, there's there's a lot of lights and there's a lot of this camera reacts. People are just Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Okay. Yeah.

I think I think what you're what one way to kind of summarize what you're kind of getting at uh in from my view is it's important for American dynamism to not be like a venture hype cycle.

that's sort of it's it's not something that can be accomplished in uh two years since you know moving to Elsagundo became popular and a meme and it needs to endure and who helped with that? Was it me you Jason Cameron Carmen? Yeah, we might have played a role a little bit to do with it.

Um but I mean I I I guess the question is like you you say this is like a you know a wakeup call for America. Like are we not awake? I feel like I feel like a lot of these a lot of this message has broken through like like what what's left to say? What what what do we say? It's broken through in the bubble. Yeah. Yeah.

Maybe it's the bubble. Maybe it's the bubble. Yeah. What I mean what is your take on like the re-industrialized summit's huge like the the you know the American Dynamism Summit is huge. Like like people seem to be beating the drum. People are at at the White House. They're in DC.

They're a fraction of the size of Salesforce Dreamforce. That's exactly it. Yeah. Are are you going to be there, Dreamforce? Let's get you there. I uh This man This man loves Enterprise SAS. He won't he won't admit it on camera.

He plays this character that he likes re-industrialization, but really he just wants to He just wants to code. Yeah. Yeah. It's all I want to do. That's all I want to do, John. No.

Um we need to we need to have more people where it's a it's inside the bubble and b we need to encourage the people that are working on the problems to focus on the things that matter and that's actually making parts. We need more factories. We need more metal moving. Moving metal is the problem right now.

There's a lot of people building tools for factories. There aren't that many factories. Yeah. Yeah. So, if you want to join, build a factory, make parts move, you know, do real stuff in the supply chain. I'm not talking like screwdriver factories bolting on imported components.

That's the vast majority of, you know, assembly in America is like what's left. So, we don't need that. We need people working on hard problems. Um, we also need you to thousandx We need you to thousandx range view.

You said earlier we need a thousand range views, but why don't why don't you just be copy and paste your yourself? I'm working as hard as I can, guys. What is What can you tell us about what can you tell us about the state-of-the-art uh in uh in manufacturing?

I know you there's there's uh additive manufacturing, subtractive manufacturing, there's CNC. We've talked to people that are 3D printing metal now. Uh there's casting. What what what are you excited about? What are you focused on? And where do you think there's still pockets of opportunity? Yeah, great question.

Um, so we are working on casting. Um, and we are we are trying to give casting its CNC moment. Yeah. And explain casting for for those who don't know. Casting is liquefying molten metal, pouring it into a mold, it's solidifying, and you're getting the, you know, the part that that has that shape.

And almost everything is cast. It's, you know, even CNC shops buy castings. Today, castings have have eroded so much that machine shops are just buying cast blocks and then they waste a whole bunch of time cutting a part into, you know, into its final part. You know, a lot of chiseling.

Um, but if you really get really good at casting, you actually just cast 99% of the way and then touch the final bits up with a drill bit. So, um, there's no oneizefits-all solution in manufacturing. It's one of the first things you learn.

It takes like it takes like a hundred humans from you know mining the ore out of the ground to installing the bracket on the end of the thing to actually make something happen. So and there's a ton of folks I think for for people looking at technology they're used to looking at manufacturing is just another sector.

Um you know there's fintech health tech manufacturing tech. The truth is manufacturing represents more of America's uh GDP than all of tech combined. Uh and so it's huge.

And so inside of manufacturing of all these sectors and so many have just been not been looked at yet um or not been touched and so we're seeing resurgence.

The other thing is is you know you maybe shouldn't finance these things exclusively with all venture capital because uh the risk profile just isn't the same in the factory right like if my factory burns down I'm going to still have you know thousand pounds of super alloy.

Uh you know maybe maybe the crate that it was in caught on fire but like they're not going to move right so you should buy it's not risky. It's not a risky bet. So you shouldn't buy that stuff for that.

So I think there's a whole new level of financing that's going to come in and you see this happening with a few of these big factory companies where you're getting really smart finance deals where you buy the technology improvements with venture capital for those returns but the rest of the factory is financed in a different way.

Yeah, that makes sense. If I were to pull a hot take out of you uh based on what you just said, it sounds like uh potentially the American manufacturing industry has overrotated towards subtractive manufacturing and needs to uh rebuild additive manufacturing or casting capability.

Is that is that like roughly a reasonable take that you additive and casting are not the same? Additive is like this spack machine that's blown up actively as we see. There are a few amazing people doing additive for the most part.

Like it's missing on qualification and it's missing on real unit economics at scale which is as a whole that's what America's missing like really being able to build stuff at scale. If we had to triple the manufacturing output of the country we'd be cooked totally cooked.

Like it would take us 5 years to get the factories up to do that and and all the factories that would start would be sending the money overseas because none of this equipment is made in America anymore. Like we lost the factory industry but we also lost the factory and machine tool industry.

So, you know, all this stuff just goes overseas. So, I wouldn't say that additive is is it. I think casting is really important. A lot of these traditional forms of manufacturing are really coming back and making a big play. Um, but we should just be encouraging everyone to make a lot of parts.

Like we we need so many parts and we need to get started immediately. Parts maxing. Talk about uh your dad. Talk about the influence there. Jason uh teased it a little bit, but I haven't heard the story. Yeah. Yeah. He's a big big part of uh big part of my life.

Um he's always encouraged me to be very very honest and and real about uh about this this world which I think is really important and venture. Um and he he was a maker himself. Um you know his family was Pittsburgh and he was a you know mid midwestern family values.

Um and they you know they he came here to work on the B1 Bone um the the supersonic bomb which is pretty sick. Uh and then I ended up growing up next to where skunk works was was founded.

So, you know, Bob Hope Airport, actually, the F1, all that stuff happened there and then it went out to Palmdale and and then it became a service-based industry. Lots of B2B SAS and entertainment happened in the area and it really changed, but he always, you know, kept me kept me centered.

Um, and he's he's a huge influence on my life and actually same with Jason's dad. So, so we bonded over that a lot and um they're becoming increasingly large parts of both of our lives. Can you uh raise like a billion and then run this ad as a Super Bowl ad? You guys want to help me? Yeah. Yeah.

We got to get him back on the venture training. Cameron's always very like, "Oh, anti- venture. " But we we need to run this film as a as a Super Bowl ad. Back range view. Come on. We back range view just to just to get the capital for a Super Bowl ad and then and then you can figure out a take time.

Years of Super Bowl ads. Run it every year. This is not going to happen overnight. Yeah, I'm in. Let's talk about it. Let's let's make a game plan. Fantastic. Well, thank you so much for hopping on. Congratulations. We'll talk on the launch. And uh where wait, where can people go to apply for jobs?

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