{"id":13495,"date":"2025-04-05T01:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/mach-ceo-building-a-defense-tech-firm-in-my-20s\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T01:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:03:28","slug":"mach-ceo-building-a-defense-tech-firm-in-my-20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/mach-ceo-building-a-defense-tech-firm-in-my-20s\/","title":{"rendered":"Mach CEO: Building a defense tech firm in my 20s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"\/>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethan Thornton, CEO of Mach, has been designing and building weaponry systems in various forms and sizes since his high school days. However, his vision has now transformed into a full-fledged company that has recently secured a contract with the U.S. military and is working towards establishing cross-functional manufacturing facilities. During the StrictlyVC 2025 event in San Francisco, TechCrunch&#8217;s Charles Rollet had a conversation with Thornton, where they discussed Mach&#8217;s strategies, its goal to compete with China, and Thornton&#8217;s early experiences in developing weapons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/mach-ceo-on-building-defense-tech-company-in-your-20s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Thornton, CEO of Mach, has been designing and building weaponry systems in various forms and sizes since his high school days. However, his vision has now transformed into a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2391],"class_list":["post-13495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-strictlyvc-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-04-at-10.24.25AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}