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Totally agree. Investors are the worst at pushing this. And they do it with a lot of psychological tactics. We’ve been really fortunate to have great lead investors who are availab…

We (OP here - Estimote) have a significant team in Europe doing just that. Working on sensor networks. Interestingly our customers are in the US and we went through YC and have mos…

OP here. Thanks for reading. Good comments. As far as winning out vs competitors, efficiency can be key. There is no question there. One of the things about frontier tech (autonomo…

Thanks yes I totally meant scale. Main cost of new ASIC chips is design and fabrication. Only serve a very narrow specific purpose and all that cost is sunk. But after that, unit p…

FPGAs cost 10x ASICs so this argument is unimportant. The reason for using ASICs is lower cost / lower compute resources.

Seems like a lot of room to innovate with technology, and I bet Amazon is banking on that. This reminds me a lot of Amazon marketplace, where they took the core service (Amazon e-c…

This truly is an incredible interview. Brian has a ton of emotional intelligence.

Analog circuitry is the most complex in chip design. It's part art part science. At the end of the day radio waves are traveling through the air and a lot of things can go wrong.

Author of the piece here. Thanks for the perspective. Note it's interesting that Tesla was able to start out (with a fraction of Apple's resources) by building their first car on t…

After seeing early prototypes and having known the founder for years, this has the potential to be a truly great product and company - congrats!