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	Podcast:		The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
	Episode:		#437 – An Interview with Chrissy Meyer
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		01:08:20
	Publish Date:		2019-04-07 23:43:21
	Description:		Welcome Chrissy Meyer, partner at Root Ventures! We previously had talked to Avidan Ross, the founder and partner at Root Ventures. 0h 0m 30s They try to target talented founders and not the company 0h 3m 21s Rose Hulman 0h 8m 10s Lincoln Labs 0h 8m 49s Went back to school at Stanford for an EE MS/PhD 0h 10m 42s She started at Apple and the iPhone launched the first week on internship 0h 11m 27s Started as a PM 0h 12m 55s Anti-GANTT charts 0h 13m 29s Baijiu 0h 15m 10s Chrissy helped ship 3 generations of iPod touch, one nano and the beginning of the Apple Watch. 0h 16m 38s Apple makes scaling look easy 0h 17m 5s They have developed the formula over decades 0h 17m 28s Walking into Foxconn 0h 18m 37s Dealing with the different layers of manufacturing 0h 21m 5s Final assembly and PCBA is normally the same location 0h 21m 20s Vertical integration is more competitive at scale 0h 22m 22s DJI is a good example 0h 22m 30s Early stage startups have access to higher levels of integration…but it doesn’t always make sense 0h 23m 37s “Think really long and hard about who you’re choosing, make sure [the manufacturer is] a good fit for your size and complexity” 0h 24m 41s 1 in a million problems are actual problems for high volume production. 0h 26m 17s Tiger team 0h 26m 45s The problem is getting a line moving 0h 28m 8s Glue machines 0h 28m 56s HDDG talk 0h 30m 1s DfM 0h 33m 25s Mechanical parts seem to have less consistency 0h 37m 38s Electrical is a bit more cut and dried 0h 38m 43s Big companies are talking to suppliers from day one 0h 41m 43s With companies like Apple, these discussions are shrouded in secrecy 0h 42m 33s “You have to be high touch if you want to be fast” 0h 43m 47s Joined Square with 300 people 0h 46m 9s Cost was everything 0h 46m 46s Developing hardware for businesses was different 0h 47m 15s Sales cycles can take a while 0h 48m 24s It requires the perfect spacing between iterations 0h 49m 24s Was a founding member of the startup Pearl Automation 0h 50m 41s They made wifi based backup camera for users 0h 51m 42s So much of startup success is timing 0h 52m 28s Learned about how to be a startup, which was useful for her time now at Root.vc 0h 54m 30s Different for VCs that write lots of checks 0h 56m 41s Root invests in 6-8 companies per year 0h 57m 25s Instrumental.ai 0h 59m 18s They do final inspection that can automatically flag anomalies 1h 1m 0s What are you Interested in the hardware space now? 1h 3m 24s Chrissy is interested in tools for manufacturing, like supplier discovery 1h 4m 7s We’re far away from the promised “dark factories” in the world of automation 1h 4m 53s Reach out about opportunities, either on LinkedIn or via their site. 1h 6m 30s The next step is to come in to brainstorm! 1h 7m 47s
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