Founder & CEO, Hadrian
Search every verified Chris Power interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Chris Power, founder and CEO of Hadrian, has recently discussed the company’s expansion of domestic manufacturing capacity for defense and aerospace, including a partnership with Lockheed Martin to produce missile components. In an October 2026 CNBC report, Power described Hadrian’s role in setting up an automated production line for Patriot missile components at a Lockheed Martin facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, where he said the company would install two dozen machines. He has also highlighted Hadrian’s growth, noting the company has opened six factories since 2022, with its latest facility spanning 2.2 million square feet. In interviews and podcasts, Power has spoken about the state of U.S. manufacturing, arguing that the country is behind on manufacturing capacity after decades of offshoring and that rebuilding it will require a combination of physical AI, automation, and a new workforce. He has stated that AI is a "massive job creator" and an enabler for blue-collar workers, and has advocated for policies that allow private capital to reindustrialize the country. Power has also discussed the importance of building manufacturing capacity ahead of contracts, describing trust as central to the manufacturing business, and has expressed views on U.S.-China competition, tariffs, and the need for a resilient defense industrial base.
Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet, U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Michael Duffey and Hadrian CEO Chris Power join CNBC's ...CEO CHRIS POWERS SAYS HADRIAN WILL STAND UP TWO DOZEN MACHINES JUST AT THIS FACILITY. IT ALSO MEANS ...
The story you hear nowadays is that America is struggling to make things and can't compete with China when it comes to advanced manufacturing. But of course, there's tons of high-tech stuff being produced in the US, and more and more companies are doing it out of Southern California, with factories sprouting up around Los Angeles to build things like precision metal parts and jet engines. Two founders who are actively engaged in building things in LA are Tom Mueller, founder of Impulse Space (and Employee No. 1 at SpaceX), as well as Hadrian founder Chris Power. Impulse Space is building in-sp…
Chris is the Founder and CEO of Hadrian, one of the fastest growing manufacturing startups in the United States. Hadrian has opened six factories since it was founded in 2020 with the latest being 2.2 million square feet. Hadrian: https://hadrian.co Chris on X: https://x.com/2112Power Ti on X: https://x.com/ti_morse Timestamps: 0:10 How to scale manufacturing in the US 1:42 Building ahead of contracts 4:21 Burn rate & execution risk 6:40 Bets that aren’t risky to you but are risky to everyone else 8:34 Scaling capacity 10:45 Operating with an 80% risk of death 13:10 Sprinting through 1-way d…
Chris Power moved to America from Australia with $30,000, a stack of history books, and the unsettling conviction that the United States had forgotten how to make things. Five years later, he’s running Hadrian, a rapidly growing manufacturing company building factories to produce some of the complicated stuff required for submarines, aerospace, and national defense. More interesting to me, though, is who’s working inside those factories—Bus drivers. Home Depot employees. Former Marines. Paralegals. High school graduates. People who, in many cases, had never set foot inside a factory before. H…
Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power discusses the company's factory expansion, building America's defense supply chain, and how AI and data centers are driving a massive demand for power and blue-collar jobs. Subscribe to Fox Business: https://bit.ly/2D9Cdse Watch more Fox Business Video: https://video.foxbusiness.com Watch Fox Business Network Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX Business Network (FBN) is a financial news channel delivering real-time information across all platforms that impact both Main Street and Wall Street. Headquartered in New York — the business capital of the world —…
Hadrian CEO Chris Power joins Ashley Mastronardi on NYSE Live to discuss the series D and his company.
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America forgot how to build things, and a 35 year old from Melbourne named Chris Power is betting billions that he can teach it again. In this Core Memory interview, Ashlee Vance sits down with the founder of Hadrian inside one of its Los Angeles factories, where rows of CNC machines and robots crank out the precision metal parts that go into rockets, satellites, missiles and fighter jets. Power spotted the problem years ago. The mom and pop machine shops that quietly supply American aerospace and defense are run by people in their 60s, their kids never wanted the job, and when those craftsmen…
Is AI-powered manufacturing the next trillion-dollar investment opportunity? Recorded live at Global Alts New York, Erik Kriessmann of Altimeter Capital sits down with Chris Power, CEO of Hadrian, to discuss the future of American manufacturing, industrial automation, defense production, and the role of physical AI in rebuilding critical supply chains. As geopolitical tensions rise and global supply chains continue to evolve, the conversation explores why reshoring, automation, and industrial capacity have become national priorities. Chris explains how Hadrian is building highly automated fa…
David Ulevitch speaks with Chris Power, founder and CEO at Hadrian, and Vice Admiral Robert Gaucher, the Pentagon's first direct reporting portfolio manager for submarines, at the opening of Hadrian's Factory Four in Cherokee, Alabama. They discuss the state of America's submarine industrial base, why the Navy now needs more than five times the manufacturing capacity it had a decade ago, and how software-driven factories and a new workforce can close the gap. Timestamps: 00:00 — Introduction 04:58 — Workforce And Software Fix 08:41 — Restarting The Industrial Base 11:35 — Submarines In Drone…
Chris Power, CEO of Hadrian, returns to Sourcery to break down the company’s newly announced $260M Series C.. bringing Hadrian’s total investment to ~$500M since founding the company in 2020. This round was closed in 3 weeks, with equity led by Delian Asparouhov of Founders Fund and Lux Capital, alongside a factory expansion loan facility from Morgan Stanley. The funding supports Hadrian’s rapid U.S. expansion, including Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona, and the build-out of new divisions like Hadrian Maritime. In the 12 months since its Series B, Hadrian has delivered 10x year-over-year growth, es…
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