Chris Power
An Australian engineer who emigrated to San Francisco in 2019 with a conviction that the U.S. industrial base was in severe decline. He founded Hadrian in 2021 to build highly automated precision CNC machining factories serving defense, aerospace, maritime, and munitions customers. Backed by Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz with $730 million raised at a $1.6 billion valuation, Hadrian's Los Angeles factories can deliver precision metal parts in days rather than the months typical of legacy job shops.