CEO Allan Evans talks with Sully, Mike and Mary about how Unusual Machines serves the American drone industry by building and selling drone components. He talks tariffs and how things are looking for their industry.
6:14Other than that, what are you most excited about in the next 18 months, so much that you can disclose as a public company, but what are you focusing on next and what's the future's so bright you got to wear shades moment for you guys?
That's the J Trader Quattro right up there on stage. Of course, back here at the bar, it is Kasa. It's Mary Godwin and it is Sully and it is one of our favorite guests in studio, Mr. Alan Evans, CEO, Unusual Machines, UMAC, ticker symbol. I want to bring you back to not such a great time when we first interviewed you, which was a great interview, but it was tariff time.
And look, you know the tariff issue for you as a parts manufacturer. Man, that was a — I'm not going to suggest it was a scary time, but boy, that was a time you had to pivot as fast as the decisions were coming. Bring us forward now. How did it shake out now? The dust has somewhat settled there.
This is like the thing I keep on bringing up — Bill Burr. Remember Bill Burr talking about he's not that impressed with Steve Jobs? Yeah. I'm not impressed. How could you not be impressed with Steve Jobs? He goes, 'Hey, I want a device that plays all my music. I make phone calls. Go make it. Go make it, come back.'
That so we saw a margin improvement last quarter, you know, coming out of it and it's stabilized there. So, you're seeing the world stabilize a little bit. Another one that is completely sort of ignored in this whole thing is the de minimis exemption cancellation.
Yeah. Which is, you know, it used to be like you do Temu or Shein or whatever and they could ship anything in and you would pay tariffs on anything under $800, right? So that was super nasty to our retail channel because people would go order stuff at five or six hundred bucks. And so that exemption going away actually really helped our consumer business.
Be more competitive. But I think that's a surprise where everybody sees it otherwise. But the stabilization now puts us in a place where we're moving more to the US than we thought because the tariff change makes it better for us and for our customers to manufacture.
When do you see news like that happen during back then? And I didn't get a chance to ask you this back then, but do you respond or do you react or is it both? Because reactionary, I think, is necessary sometimes, but if you go too fast, you guys could have missed all that margin potential.
Evans, A. (2025, October 8). Allan Evans CEO of Unusual Machines | The Big Biz Show [Interview transcript]. LOFT100 Studios. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1170852/
MLA
Allan Evans. "Allan Evans CEO of Unusual Machines | The Big Biz Show." LOFT100 Studios, 8 Oct. 2025. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1170852/.
BibTeX
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author = {Allan Evans},
title = {Allan Evans CEO of Unusual Machines | The Big Biz Show},
howpublished = {Interview transcript, LOFT100 Studios. CEOInterviews.AI},
year = {2025},
month = {oct},
url = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1170852/},
note = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
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