From Sawmill to 40 Employees: Lester Miller of MillerTech Energy | The Shirk Show Ep. 4

[music] >> Hi everyone. Super excited to have Lester Miller from MillerTech Batteries on here. Uh I'm going to ask Lester a couple questions and then we'll get you guys back to it. So, uh Lester, what are you building? >> So, Gary, I'm I'm excited to be on the show. Um it's an honor. And

we uh we have a a company and called MillerTech, MillerTech Energy, and we pretty much focus on lithium batteries is what got us started. In the last few years we've been branching out uh into LED headlamps. Um now we're working on some Starlink products, um Starlink accessories, battery packs. So, we're really are becoming a more

diverse company, but we did start out initially with lithium batteries. >> I know the headlights and the batteries are the the top two things that uh I feel like people recognize you that the ones that are going to be watching this most likely. Uh recently really enjoyed the touring your your facility there.

Um I I I was just curious, did you did you get into that expansion yet? Is that has that happened? I'd seen some excavating and stuff happening on I think it was fit someone had forwarded from Facebook. Uh wondering how that how that's all coming along. >> Yeah, so as you can see, my office is in

a trailer. Um so, we got kicked out of our out of our offices that weren't very nice, but we we have a job trailer and we have six six office people here in the trailer. Um so, yeah, we're waiting on the gas company to get the gas shut off so we can cuz the gas line comes in right

underneath that building. And they need to shut it off at the road. So, we're hoping sometime this week or next week we're going to start with demolition. And our goal is to have the structure up before too much of the winter snow comes. We're right here in the snow belt in Ohio. So,