Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR

Post by dcreater » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

nonameiguess wrote: post #8

According to the draft Wikipedia article for this company that hasn't been published because it is not yet considered sufficiently noteworthy, this company has existed for 17 years, built their first production facility in 2023, and first delivered working units into real cars last March. That doesn't strike me as moving all that fast. It also says they acquired the Bose product they're shitting on in this article fo…

Post by doctorpangloss » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 7:02 PM UTC

syntaxing wrote: post #9

Fun read but a bit too much fluff? I was a design MechE for about a decade and I’m by no means as successful as the OP. But I have worked on a 5 person design team that had an annual net revenue of 30M and another job where I worked on 25M+ contract with just a team of 2, me and my mentor at the time. End of the day, hardware execution is hard and there’s a ton of product development cycle theories, you just need a c…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

esseph wrote: post #18

bfeynman wrote: post #7

Nice read but falls into a vast reductionist trap, a lot of survivorship bias dressed up as design philosophy or strategic bets. The context of decisions made decades ago != now, people were working under different constraints etc. Trying to frame the avionics example as the "subtractive" innovation is the most egregious, transistors were over 1000x times smaller, weight wasn't even a consideration.

> a lot of survivorship bias dressed up as design philosophy or strategic bets I wish more people realized this

Post by MisterTea » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

roadbuster wrote: post #6

I think Clearmotion has a very interesting technology and product (ride stabilization), but let's paint a full picture here: the company was founded in 2009, took on $370 million in funding, and only recently landed large contracts (a $1 billion dollar deal in 2023 with Chinese auto manufacturer, Nio). I'm sure they were in a constant struggle for survival and had to "move fast" to stay afloat, but their technology i…

Post by svnt » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 3:32 AM UTC

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #19

supliminal wrote: post #17

Can someone in plain English please tell us what this company does? I just see one anecdote after another that’s scattered with feel-good whodathunkit babble. I was anticipating the airplane holes analogy, but maybe I got lucky and missed it.

"ClearMotion, a company developing automotive robotics that stabilize vehicle ride and handling"