How exactly does T-Rex arms develop new product?

And what are some of the lessons that we have learned as we have grown?

Because things have changed a lot.

Welcome to another T-Rex talk. This is Isaac Botkin, and today we're going to be talking about

lessons that we have learned as we have changed how we do things when it comes to R&D.

And most of those changes are actually because the company has grown, and so we just need a different way of doing it.

But as you can imagine, we've need a different way of doing it. But as you can imagine,

we've also learned a lot of new things. And with learning the new things comes new ways of doing

stuff. That being said, the growth is really what is probably brought about the biggest change.

In the Holster Development Department, we have like half a dozen guys, and then we

have a couple of engineers supporting them. The engineers do a lot of stuff for everybody in the

company, but primarily they build the tooling for building the new products, which means

they're heavily involved in the new product R&D process. So that's quite a few people

doing R&D for a company our size. But it's also a lot of people doing R&D compared to five years ago.

And the reason we've been talking about that this week is because we've been discussing

what things were like earlier when the company was smaller and a lot of

our procedures were different, but also because a gentleman came in to visit the shop and we were

able to talk to him about his work as an industrial designer and product developer at a giant

company. We feel like a pretty big company compared to where we were five years ago, but this guy was

making very complicated products for a company that has two or three times as many factories

as TREX has employees.

So their R&D process is very different than ours when it comes to scale.

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