{"id":37800,"date":"2026-02-22T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=37800"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:54:15","slug":"inside-baseball-talk-on-solid-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/inside-baseball-talk-on-solid-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Baseball Talk on Solid Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Larry Chiang is known for his eccentric, motivational style in entrepreneurship content\u2014think rapid-fire tips, hashtag-heavy rants, credit score “hacks,” and Stanford’s ENGR 145 class on tech startups. He’s not directly tied to SolidWorks in public content (no posts or videos on it from his accounts), but given his engineering-adjacent background (teaching at Stanford, HP experience, and a focus on product innovation), his take on SolidWorks videos would likely mash up CAD tutorials with business hustling. Expect short, punchy videos (5-15 minutes) filmed on a phone or webcam, with chaotic energy, pop culture references, and analogies to things like FICO scores or guacamole stands (a recurring motif in his ENGR 145 lectures).<\/div>\n
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The content would emphasize practical, “hacker” applications for entrepreneurs: quick prototyping, cost-saving design tricks, and turning models into startup MVPs. No polished production\u2014just raw advice, maybe with whiteboard sketches or screen shares, ending in calls to action like “DM me at 650-283-8008.” Here’s what 10 hypothetical videos might look like, based on his vibe:<\/div>\n
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1. **SolidWorks for Lemonade Stand Prototypes**: Modeling a collapsible cart in 3D, with tips on iterating designs to cut manufacturing costs by 50%. Ties it to “bootstrapping your biz like hacking your credit.”<\/div>\n
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2. **Hacking Assemblies Like FICO Scores**: Building complex part assemblies, explaining constraints as “credit limits.” Bonus: How to export for 3D printing without blowing your budget.<\/div>\n
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3. **Sheet Metal Shenanigans for Startups**: Designing enclosures or brackets, with rants on why entrepreneurs should “bend rules like sheet metal” for faster product launches.<\/div>\n
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4. **Surfacing Tricks for Slick MVPs**: Creating organic shapes (e.g., a custom phone case), analogizing curves to “smoothing out your pitch deck” for investor appeal.<\/div>\n
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5. **Simulation Secrets: Don’t Let Your Design Fail Like a Bad Loan**: Running stress tests on models, comparing results to credit risk assessments. “Fail fast, iterate faster!”<\/div>\n
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6. **Parametric Modeling for Pivot-Ready Products**: Setting up variables for easy changes, like “pivoting your startup without rebuilding from scratch.” Includes gua gua guacamole recipe Easter eggs.<\/div>\n
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7. **Drawing Views: From Sketch to Shark Tank**: Generating 2D drawings from 3D models, with advice on using them for patents or investor decks. “Visualize success like a 850 FICO.”<\/div>\n
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8. **Weldments for Weekend Warriors**: Framing structures quickly, targeted at garage inventors. Quirky tip: “Weld your team like parts\u2014strong bonds, no drama.”<\/div>\n
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9. **Configurations Crash Course: A\/B Test Your Designs**: Creating variants of a part, linking it to A\/B testing in marketing. “Optimize like Google, but for hardware.”<\/div>\n
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10. **Export Hacks: From SolidWorks to Supply Chain Glory**: Tips on file formats for CNC or injection molding, ending with “Scale your prototype to unicorn status\u2014call me if you need VC intros.”<\/div>\n
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Overall, expect motivational fluff over deep tech dives, with his signature weirdness (e.g., vagina whisperer bio vibes creeping in as metaphors). If he actually made these, they’d probably go viral on X for the memes, not the tutorials.<\/div>\n

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Hunter Pence shared thoughts before winning WORLD SERIES’ Game #7
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Steve Jobs Texted me on 650-283-8008<\/span> in the same way Palo Alto Steve Jobs called Bill Hewlett in Palo Alto <\/span><\/div>\n

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9:59<\/span><\/span> video sums up 14 chapters of a book coming out 11-11-2019 “What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School”
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Fashion Week’s front row
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What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

American Express hosts me mentoring you about FICO scores at New York Fashion Week
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My video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve 
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CNN Video Channel: ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Read my last 10 X posts at www.X.com\/LarryChiang<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Author of #WTDTYASBS a NY Times Bestseller released 09-09-09 at #NYFW on a runway under the tents
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52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering
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