About this episode

Jim Belosic discusses the rise of SendCutSend and its impact on American manufacturing.

If you spend any time inside a company that actually makes things in the U.S., then you’ll hear about SendCutSend. Started in 2018, SendCutSend has become an American manufacturing phenomenon. The company makes metal parts for more than 300,000 customers, ranging from giants of aerospace and defense to hobbyists working on their cars. You ship SendCutSend a computer file of what you want built, and it often arrives at your house or factory the next day. Jim Belosic started the company because he always had hardware side projects running in the background and wanted something like SendCutSend to exist. He spent $750,000 on his first metal cutting machine and then soon discovered that there were lots of other people like him who also wanted something like SendCutSend to exist. The company has since evolved into one of the few homegrown options that can compete with China in terms of getting metal parts to customers quickly and at a reasonable price. SendCutSend had been flying under the radar of the wider public for years with Belosic building the business largely with his own money and some smaller investments. Recently, though, SendCutSend raised $110 million from Sequoia…

People in this episode

Host: Ashlee Vance

Guest: Jim Belosic

Topics covered

• manufacturing
• technology
• startups
• metal parts
• American industry

Keywords

• SendCutSend
• manufacturing
• metal parts
• Jim Belosic
• American industry
• startups
• Sequoia
• investment

Sponsors

SendCutSend

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SendCutSend, Sequoia, Paradigm

Places: U.S., Reno

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