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Welcome Scotty Allen of Strangeparts.com!
- Chris and Scotty were just hanging out at Supercon. Scotty gave a talk from there last year.
- Scotty’s latest video is about making an RFID chip
- Kitchen Confidential
- Scotty did software consulting in college and then joined the Google search team.
- He decided to quit and travel more and was became a “Minimalist by default” when he accidentally set apartment on fire.
- Blog posts in 2014 had him curious about Shenzhen, including posts from Ian from Dangerous Prototypes.
- He first visited with Mitch Altman during his yearly tour to China.
- Greg from RevRobotics makes parts for FRC
- The process to stay in China
- WePay (really “WeChat Pay”)
- QR codes
- Scotty knows some conversational Chinese, but also relies on Google translate and Microsoft translate (OCR).
- Videos
- iPhone
- RFID
- Factory tours
- Videoes with Collin Abroadcast in the Yiwu commodities market outside of Shanghai
- Inside the massive market
- Cashierless convenience store
- Places Scotty wants to tour (please contact if you know of any contacts)
- Silicon fab
- Batteries – LiPo
- Injection molding – greg nedall
- White label modification
- 100 units
- Chinese entrepreneurs use local manufacturing
- iPhone testing board (also pictured above) is a good example
- Intermeshed network of specialized manufacturing
- People shop around for quality/relationships
- Finding factories
- Moving outside of Shenzhen
- Mismatched expectations
- Chinese entrepreneurs
- Moving upmarket
- Shanzai phones
- Made in China 2025
- 100 year plan with 5 year plan segments
- Scotty doesn’t plan to start a QVC channel
- DSLR video shooter
- Video
- Background in video/theater
- Story telling
- Quest
- The Engineers journey
- Any complex project goes through the heroes journey
- The only way through is to change who they are as a person
- There are two ways the story can finish
- Succeed
- Explaining why it can’t be done
- Battery stories with past guest Steve Kreuzer
- Boards brought from the market
- Scotty is growing the Strangeparts team, namely looking for a COO.
- Contact Scotty on
- Twitter @strangepartscom
- Scotty@strangeparts.com
Good guest. But I am still waiting for Clive Mitchel (bigclivedotcom).
I’ve listened to every TAH episode. Some have been harder to listen to than others.
This one is the worst I can recall.
A lucky millennial pretending to know about electronics, trying to monetize becoming a personality.
The valley-girl way of speaking, ending every statement as a question, I can tolerate.
It’s just the total lack of content that was frustrating.
In the past two days, I’ve now read the term “millennial” meant as a pejorative. It isn’t, any more than saying “baby boomer” (and arguably there’s a lot more to be mad about with the latter group). Regardless, I’m starting to think we may have ourselves a troll problem here.
Sorry you didn’t like the interview, though. I thought Scotty was fascinating. His insight into the Chinese ecosystem was a lot healthier than many I’ve heard and his curiosity about the world is a very redeeming feature.