When Your Shop Is No Longer Bound by Geography w/ Sanjeev Singh Sahni

Books are more than 80% bought online. Electronics, more than 50%. Custom manufactured parts? Less than 1%. CEO of Xometry, Sanjeev Sahni, believes that gap makes custom parts the most underpenetrated e-commerce category in the world, and that closing it has less to do with manufacturing capability than with speed and data. In this episode, we'll explore why an engineer can design a part in an afternoon and then lose days to manual RFQs and hit-or-miss supplier matching. You'll hear how online marketplaces are dissolving the 30 to 50 mile radius that defined machine shops for generations, why a Houston shop built on oil and gas is now doing aerospace work, and what changes for a shop owner who would rather make parts than chase sales. We'll also touch on why Sanjeev insists his company call manufacturers partners rather than suppliers.