I recently watched a video on OZ's channel where he interviews Sir SmashAlot, an extremely large player in the T2 ship and structure rig markets, who has scaled to a point where he apparently pays 6% of the universes install fees alone! And has revenue of 7.5 Trillion a month!
That is just...staggering. Inspiring, but staggering. It's a great interview where he talks about his setup, how he got where he is and what it's like to play at that level.
As someone who is currently struggling to get tech 2 production straight in my head, and grappling with scaling I think this is something I'll come back to to gain some insight and motivation. He describes null industry as having lumpy demand, which is definitely something I've experienced even at a small scale and become frustrated with. I have been tempted to simply revert to primarily highsec for a while but I think that what I'm facing is clearly surmountable, I just need to work things out properly to get there.
I highly recommend this if you're looking to scale industry seriously, and would be fascinated to find anything similar or how other people have done it as I haven't cracked it myself yet.
one of the best shows i have listened to. When i get the time i will be revisiting manufacturing for sure.
ReplyDeleteYeah it was a really eye opening interview. Manufacturing has been a funny one for me so far, some aspects have been easier than expected but there are a lot of unexpected challenges and problems to solve. Throughput on sells has actually become more of an issue with some higher margin items so I've reintroduced some of the items I was making earlier for lower margins but faster sells. Also getting the "flow" of good in/out of null is something I'm really not happy with at the minute, but working it out. Smash gives me something to aspire to!
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