The BOM : Episode 27: A Front Row Seat to the Future With Chrissy Meyer
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Chrissy Meyer discovered electrical engineering at age 9 and never looked back. Now a partner at Root Ventures, she helps provide initial funding for companies tackling new and complex technical projects.
We’ll talk about how the time she spent at Apple developing iconic products like the iPod Touch and the Apple Watch helped her develop the skill of building hardware that can scale, about her life-changing decision to drop everything and move to Santa Cruz in 2014 to work at a vehicle hardware startup, and about how she and four other engineers run Root Ventures. Plus, some pro tips for you engineers out there who have trouble getting excited about the non-technical sides of a company.
Root Ventures: https://root.vc/
We’ll talk about how the time she spent at Apple developing iconic products like the iPod Touch and the Apple Watch helped her develop the skill of building hardware that can scale, about her life-changing decision to drop everything and move to Santa Cruz in 2014 to work at a vehicle hardware startup, and about how she and four other engineers run Root Ventures. Plus, some pro tips for you engineers out there who have trouble getting excited about the non-technical sides of a company.
Root Ventures: https://root.vc/
The BOM
The BOM (or “bill of materials”) is a weekly Supplyframe DesignLab Podcast hosted by Head of Design & Partnerships Majenta Strongheart. Each week, through digestible conversations with the world’s leading innovators, hackers, and entrepreneurs, Majenta and her guests explore the future of how hardware projects are built and brought to market, investigate technological solutions to the world's toughest challenges, help bridge the gap between makers, startups, and investors, and celebrate the transformational power of design.
Presented by Supplyframe DesignLab
Presented by Supplyframe DesignLab
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