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Day 2 · Interview 19 of 224:10 PM · Moscone West

Sujit Pal

Founder & CEO, Public Access

Laser-wire metal printing that makes legacy aircraft parts in weeks, not months.

The full conversation

5:57 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

3:51 · Sujit's answers, condensed.

Clips

5 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

Aerospace parts in weeks, not months

“We are developing technology for aerospace manufacturing where we can take traditional legacy methods and eliminate them to make parts much quicker than the 16 to 24 months, which are currently the timelines on some of t…”

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Grounded jets, stripped for parts

“So the primary problem is our country is using a lot of aircraft which are older generation like the B-52s which were made in the 1950s, the A-10s which were made in the 1970s, F-14s, F-15s, F-16s. These are all legacy a…”

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They need suppliers yesterday

“I also met with people from the industry who manufacture a lot of the aircraft and airframes like Lockheed Martin Raytheon etc I asked them what's the basic supply chain problem which you guys are talking about and they …”

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Building the part is the easy part

“The hardest part is essentially getting the parts qualified building a part is the easy part you have a machine you can put it through the machine it comes out in the way in which you want you can mill it, you can do the…”

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Keep knocking till you get a yes

“The very first thing is, one, believe in yourself. Second, there'll be thousands of people who will say no. You are waiting for that one guy who will say yes. So when you knock on doors, you're going to have a sore hand …”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.