Hi everyone, I'm Maggie McGrath, senior editor at Forbes. Hadrian founder and CEO Chris

Power has raised $180 million to manufacture metal parts at his California factory. Now he's going

to build a network that will do this faster, better, and perhaps cheaper.

He was also named to the Forbes next billion dollar startup list in 2024.

He joins us now to give an update on the business. Chris, thanks so much for being here.

Well, thanks for having me.

So you made the Forbes' $2024 next billion startup list, which came out in August, so not quite six months ago, but a decent amount of time.

Let's start with any changes. What's been going on for you guys since we last spoke in August?

Mostly just Explorce It Rough and a lot of new people joining the mission, which is fantastic.

So we are over 300 people now bursting at the scenes in LA and rapidly planning out our

countrywide expansion for later this year. Rapidly planning countrywide expansion for later was here.

Rapidly planning countrywide expansion. So what does that expansion plan look like?

What states are you targeting and how many locations?

Yeah, so we will be launching a facility that's at least four times the size of the current one in LA in different states.

We will publicly announce where that state is going to be at the end of March.

We're just walking through the, there, there's a selection process there for the next couple of months.

We're really, I've grown so explosively.

We're very close to being, we're out of force pace. We're are very close to being we're out of force pace we're

definitely very close to being out of revenue capacity which is really exciting I think we are

by far the fastest growing manufacturer for both time in the US and yeah we will need to launch

two big new factories next year one for a custom project that's

highly confidential and one for all of our customers that would be four times the size of what

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