Darby Dunn, embodying excellence in #manufacturing and #operations, she joins the show drawing from her tenure at SpaceX building the Dragon spacecraft, and now at Commonwealth Fusion Systems where she’s helping develop a full fusion machine alongside the production systems to support it.

She brings a wealth of insight to this episode as we tackle the central question:

“How do you scale hardware operations and manufacturing capabilities?”

Tune in and learn how to build systematically, skillfully and strategically.

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Music by: Tom Stoke

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