“Let’s go walk the factory. Come see the technology. And the right engineer will look at a viper and just be obsessed.”

How I Invest with David Weisburd · E439: Ethan Thornton: The 22-Year-Old Building a $3.7 Billion Defense Company

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Recruit by inviting candidates to “come see the factory” and show them the technology, using this as a negative filter to attract intrinsically motivated engineers

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