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Welcome Chrissy Meyer, partner at Root Ventures!
- We previously had talked to Avidan Ross, the founder and partner at Root Ventures.
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- They try to target talented founders and not the company
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- Rose Hulman
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- Lincoln Labs
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- Went back to school at Stanford for an EE MS/PhD
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- She started at Apple and the iPhone launched the first week on internship
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- Started as a PM
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- Anti-GANTT charts
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- Baijiu
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- Chrissy helped ship 3 generations of iPod touch, one nano and the beginning of the Apple Watch.
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- Apple makes scaling look easy
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- They have developed the formula over decades
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- Walking into Foxconn
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- Dealing with the different layers of manufacturing
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- Final assembly and PCBA is normally the same location
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- Vertical integration is more competitive at scale
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- DJI is a good example
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- Early stage startups have access to higher levels of integration…but it doesn’t always make sense
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- “Think really long and hard about who you’re choosing, make sure [the manufacturer is] a good fit for your size and complexity”
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- 1 in a million problems are actual problems for high volume production.
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- Tiger team
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- The problem is getting a line moving
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- Glue machines
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- HDDG talk
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- DfM
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- Mechanical parts seem to have less consistency
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- Electrical is a bit more cut and dried
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- Big companies are talking to suppliers from day one
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- With companies like Apple, these discussions are shrouded in secrecy
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- “You have to be high touch if you want to be fast”
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- Joined Square with 300 people
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- Cost was everything
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- Developing hardware for businesses was different
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- Sales cycles can take a while
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- It requires the perfect spacing between iterations
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- Was a founding member of the startup Pearl Automation
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- They made wifi based backup camera for users
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- So much of startup success is timing
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- Learned about how to be a startup, which was useful for her time now at Root.vc
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- Different for VCs that write lots of checks
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- Root invests in 6-8 companies per year
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- Instrumental.ai
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- They do final inspection that can automatically flag anomalies
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- What are you Interested in the hardware space now?
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- Chrissy is interested in tools for manufacturing, like supplier discovery
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- We’re far away from the promised “dark factories” in the world of automation
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- Reach out about opportunities, either on LinkedIn or via their site.
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- The next step is to come in to brainstorm!
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