Ep. 82 - Machina Labs

Podcast: Crossing the Valley · Frontdoor Defense

Opublikowano: 2026-05-27

How Machina Labs Compressed 4-Year Lead Times Into 1 Week About Ed Mehr Ed Mehr is the CEO and co-founder of Machina Labs. A builder since childhood (he attended a school that emphasized welding, carpentry, and craft) Ed started his career in software before crossing over into hardware as an early engineer at SpaceX in the early 2010s. The cultural shock of moving from “ship a prototype in days” software to “wait months for a single iteration” hardware became the founding wound that drove him toward agile manufacturing. After SpaceX, he joined Relativity Space to work on 3D-pr...