Cameron Schiller, founder and CEO of Rangeview, joins Jim to share how Legos, robots and competitive VEX battles led him to build one of America’s most ambitious modern foundries. From a formative stint inside Chinese factories to creating automated casting systems for mission-critical defense and energy parts, Cameron explains why the future of manufacturing depends on curiosity, conviction, and bringing capability back home.
This episode of Just Gonna Send It brings host Jim Belosic together with Rangeview founder and CEO Cameron Schiller. From Legos, robots and VEX world championships to time spent inside Chinese factories and finally building one of America’s most ambitious modern foundries, Cameron shares a story shaped by curiosity, conviction, and a belief that the future of this country depends on people who are willing to pick up a tool and build.
Cameron grew up with almost no screen time and parents who pushed hands on creativity over entertainment. Mindstorms became homemade rubber band turrets, which turned into competitive VEX and FRC teams where he learned to obsess over performance you can feel. As a freshman in high school, he won the VEX World Championship, then helped build a program that kept winning after he left. That experience taught him how to design systems, not just machines.
College lasted only a semester. Cameron saw quickly that classrooms weren’t teaching the real mechanics of manufacturing operations, and that his time would compound faster in the garage than in a lecture hall. The decision caused friction at home, but it pushed him toward a life defined by action rather than permission.
Drawn to Shenzhen’s pace and industrial capability, Cameron spent time inside factories building consumer electronics and watching production move at a scale America hasn’t matched in decades. But he also saw the darker side workers treated as ranked units, political fear, even colleagues disappearing. That flipped his worldview and made him fiercely committed to building capability on American soil, where liberty and dignity are part of the process.
Back home, Cameron analyzed every manufacturing process to find where automation could create the biggest leap and where America was most exposed. Investment casting stood out as both critical and neglected the backbone of parts for jets and turbines, yet stuck in decades old methods and responsible for grounding large portions of the fighter fleet. His first idea was to sell robots to foundries. No one wanted them. So he built the foundry himself.
Rangeview’s first facility in El Segundo was a four thousand square foot science experiment of furnaces, sensors, robotics, and a backyard “battery” where messy processes lived under a tarp. The early days were nonstop cold water moments, power cuts, equipment quirks, operational chaos but also the foundation of a modern foundry that could deliver consistent, high performance parts. Cameron raised capital from investors who shared his long view and refused to compromise on building real capability, not just software.
Rangeview is now moving into a sixty thousand square foot facility and producing cast parts that matter, energy components that keep neighborhoods powered and aerospace hardware that gets grounded jets back into the air. The goal is simple, build a factory that gives the United States control over the advanced components it depends on while proving that modern manufacturing can be a career people are proud of again.
Cameron’s mindset blends robotics, patriotism, and a belief in factory towns done right. Automation should augment builders, not erase them. America needs people who take pride in physical work. And meaning comes from choosing work that serves your family, your community, and your country.
In this episode of Just Gonna Send It, Jim sits down with Cameron Schiller, founder and CEO of Rangeview, to explore how a kid obsessed with Legos, robots and competitive VEX competitions grew into the builder of one of America’s most advanced modern foundries. Cameron shares how early hands-on curiosity turned into world championship robotics, why he left college after one semester, and how a formative stretch inside Chinese factories pushed him to commit fully to rebuilding manufacturing capability in the United States.
He breaks down why he chose investment casting a critical but outdated process behind jet engines and energy systems and how Rangeview is bringing modern automation, robotics, and real operational discipline into a field that hasn’t changed in decades. From the scrappy first facility in El Segundo to a new sixty thousand square foot factory producing mission-critical defense and energy parts, Cameron’s story is a reminder that America needs more builders, more factory towns, and more people willing to pick up a tool and make something real.
