The Industrial CapitalistAmerican industry is being rebuilt. This is the record of who is doing it.
A second industrial age is under way, on the pad, in the shop, along the pipeline, and in the plants coming back to American soil. The Industrial Capitalist is a journal, a podcast, and a private assembly for the builders leading it. We begin with energy, the industry that powers all the others.
The country is building again. New plants, new pipelines, new yards, new crews, and a generation of owners putting their names on the loan documents to make it happen. It has been chronicled by outsiders for too long. We start in the oil patch, where the rebuilding began and where it runs on relationships, patience, and physical courage. What we build for these people becomes the template for every industry that follows.
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The Record
Long-form conversations with the people rebuilding American industry, on the record. Each season goes deep on one industry.
The first conversations are being recorded now. The episode list will appear here.
The words of the trade, in plain language.
Explainers for the pad, the shop floor, the job site, and the bank. Written by people who use them.
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What is a surety bond in construction?
Surety bonds guarantee that a contractor will finish the work and pay the people who did it. What bid, performance, and payment bonds are, and why bonding capacity decides how big a contractor can grow.
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What is a job shop?
A job shop makes parts to order, one job at a time, rather than running a product line. What that means for how it quotes, schedules, and grows, and why so many machining and fabrication businesses…
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Fabrication shop and machine shop: the difference
Both make metal parts to order, but a fabrication shop cuts, forms, and welds plate and structural steel while a machine shop removes metal to tight tolerances. What each does and where they overlap.
The Assembly
Salon dinners
Once a quarter, by invitation only. Twelve seats, each hand-selected from the thought leaders across the pad: one anchor operator and eleven rising builders. The guest list is never published.
The tableThe Summit
An off-the-record annual gathering of American energy’s builders and the capital behind them.
The gathering
An institution built to endure,
and to grow.
Membership is by invitation.
We admit the people rebuilding American industry, beginning with energy. As new desks open, the room grows. The standard does not.
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