Scaling a Niche Tech Consulting Business with Reece Daniel

It's cool, dude, because what we're not talking about you know a little bit of power either you know like you're building massive batteries is my assumption and maybe not even so maybe these little capacitors these little batteries that are providing massive power and you know as i'm thinking it through and you're saying this you know the this is like new wave technology right like to put up a drone to put up something in the air you are taking a lot of risk you're creating from scratch you know, it can break, it's gonna, you know, maybe that aircraft, maybe that drone is thousands and thousands of dollars and it loses, um, energy and it, and it plummets and it smashes.

Like this must be some high pressure stuff that you're working on.

How do you kind of, you know, there's a lot of people that run businesses listening to the podcast and they're scaling and they're growing.

You are in a high pressure industry, right? There's not many, um, Daniel consulting groups who consult on batteries.

Right.

So, so like, How do you kind of deal with the pressures of creating something from nothing or taking it to the next wave of technology, being the first to market with some of these companies? I mean, you just said one of these companies just went IPO.

We're not talking about little things here, folks.

This is massive, not only in the battery industry, but for the robotics, for the electronics, Aircrafts for the drones like for all the things that you're working on how do you kind of navigate some of these massive? projects where It's not like you're building a desk that you got from Ikea And they give you directions even though we probably know some of those directions from Ikea But you get what I'm saying right like there's not just this script to build from step one step to use figure B with figure C like How do you move through some of this stuff, man? Like, is there a lot of creativity? Is there a lot of research with your research background? Like, how do you get the parts? How do you get the battery cells? Like, dude, I'm just so intrigued because...

you are very unique and you're very good at what you do and um you've been doing it and you've got the research history and you've worked with some of the most profound people in your studies and and then you went out and built something yourself so i know this is a big question feel free to take it wherever but like you're doing really cool unique stuff and you're creating you're changing the world so i'd love to just hear how you kind of navigate all that man

yeah um yeah it's um so i guess part of it is you know going back to that like the skating thing and kind of like not not being risk averse you know kind of being able to put myself out there a little bit and make my you know get myself in position where I could look dumb or vulnerable or, you know, um, so it's just like taking that initial leap is a big part of it.

Um, and then aside from that, um, I just, I, I, I have to trust in the process.

I have to trust in the scientific method.

I have to trust in, um, my experience and and the stuff that i've done um and so it's you know it's one thing like if someone if someone just came up to like you right and said hey uh could you could you design a thing to safely test this battery right it would you know that you know and it's like oh and if if you don't do it right it might burn this building down You know, that would probably be a lot of stress.

It'd be maybe a lot of anxiety going into that.

But that's a question, that's a request that's, you know, come to me dozens of times at this point, several dozen times at this point.

And so I, you

know,

it's a little bit, it's just a bit of experience, I guess.

And having the familiarity with that territory to where it's not quite as intimidating for me, it's not quite as overwhelming for me just because, There's been a bit of a school hard knocks kind of thing going on.

It's not even a rant here, but like the system, this chamber is behind me right now.

So you see this Gary here.

This is part of a system that we developed in-house.

And it's a smoke activated ventilation system.

And basically it's a safety thing.

So if the chamber detects any smoke in there, it vents it out, whatever.