{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Force Tech Talks","title":"Force Tech Talk Episode 24 Pt2: The Founder Story, with Mike Salmon (Part 2)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1229,"description":"In Part 2 of Force Tech Talk Episode 24, Chris Dawes continues his conversation with Mike Salmon, founder and Director of Engineering at Force Technologies, moving from the company's origins into the present and what comes next.\n \nMike talks through why Force keeps a huge library of old data books, including the ICSK Master reference, and how that archive lets the team identify parts from decades-old circuit diagrams when the original manufacturer's data has disappeared from search engines entirely.\n \nHe shares examples from his own design career, including work on Concorde and 37 Force-supplied devices on the Eurofighter Typhoon, and explains why storage discipline matters as much as sourcing. Stored die and components have to meet strict criteria so they still perform correctly decades later, whether that's a missile system or a navigation unit.\n \nThe conversation moves into Mike's motorsport career, from Porsche Supercup racing at the British Grand Prix to endurance racing where his team beat a Top Gear presenter's car to a class win, before returning to business.\n \nMike sets out where he sees Force heading, not as a distributor or small manufacturer, but as the company customers bring a problem to when nobody else has an answer, and explains why buyer behaviour, chasing a cheaper part over the right one, is still one of the industry's biggest risks. He closes on sovereign supply chain resilience, anti-counterfeiting, and what CEO Karen Salmon is preparing to announce next.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ouzO5RlGDyVN36jsq-du3UTD0rlcs63tAu0iVqA2cJ8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kNTIx/ZTQ3Y2JjMzE0MjM4/MjA5ZDkzZmIyNmJk/OGIxMC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}