# 214: From DevOps to Building AI for Industrial Code with Adam Gluck, CEO and Founder of Copia Automation

- Show: [Manufacturing Happy Hour](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour)
- Published: 2024-12-03
- Length: 50m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2024-12-03-214-from-devops-to-building-ai-for-industrial-code-with-adam-gluck-ceo-and-found
- Listen: http://manufacturinghappyhour.com

## Summary

Adam Gluck, CEO and Founder of Copia Automation, explains how his background in software engineering and sociology led him to bring DevOps practices to industrial OT code. He details Copia's evolution from source control to disaster recovery and the development of Copia Copilot, an AI tool designed to solve specific pain points like code documentation and generation for controls engineers. Gluck also discusses the growing venture capital interest in 'reindustrialization,' the strategic choice of New York as a hub for hard tech, and the cultural challenges of selling software to traditional manufacturing enterprises.

## Chapters

- [0:42](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2024-12-03-214-from-devops-to-building-ai-for-industrial-code-with-adam-gluck-ceo-and-found#t=42) Introduction and Copia Overview
- [6:31](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2024-12-03-214-from-devops-to-building-ai-for-industrial-code-with-adam-gluck-ceo-and-found#t=391) Adam Gluck's Background and Motivation
- [14:07](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2024-12-03-214-from-devops-to-building-ai-for-industrial-code-with-adam-gluck-ceo-and-found#t=847) Hiring and Building the Team
- [16:37](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2024-12-03-214-from-devops-to-building-ai-for-industrial-code-with-adam-gluck-ceo-and-found#t=997) Copia's Evolution: Source Control to Disaster Recovery
- [21:57](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2024-12-03-214-from-devops-to-building-ai-for-industrial-code-with-adam-gluck-ceo-and-found#t=1317) Building Copia Copilot and Solving Pain Points
- [27:29](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2024-12-03-214-from-devops-to-building-ai-for-industrial-code-with-adam-gluck-ceo-and-found#t=1649) AI Skepticism and the Problem-First Mindset
- [31:40](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2024-12-03-214-from-devops-to-building-ai-for-industrial-code-with-adam-gluck-ceo-and-found#t=1900) New York Tech Scene and Hard Tech VC
- [37:11](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/manufacturing-happy-hour/2024-12-03-214-from-devops-to-building-ai-for-industrial-code-with-adam-gluck-ceo-and-found#t=2231) Reindustrialization and Go-to-Market Challenges

## Topics

- [Starting a product company](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/starting-a-company)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Hiring & workforce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/hiring-and-workforce)
- [Fundraising & investors](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/fundraising)
- [Direct-to-consumer & e-commerce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/direct-to-consumer)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- Copia Automation (company)
- Copia Copilot (product)
- Uber (company)
- Lux Capital (company)
- Construct Capital (company)
- a16z (company)
- Founders Fund (company)
- Rockwell (company)
- Siemens (company)
- Schneider Electric (company)
- MongoDB (company)
- Datadog (company)
- Ramp (company)

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