MEP EP#180: Chrissy Meyer and Personal Errata Datasheets
Chrissy Meyer
- Has spent the past decade taking hardware products from early concept through high-volume production
- Received a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
- Led several projects at Apple and Square
- Founding team member at Pearl Automation, a vehicle technology startup
- Developed products that have shipped tens of millions of units
- Spent over a year on the ground in Asia working closely with manufacturers and suppliers
- Recently joined Root Ventures, a seed-stage hard tech venture capital firm, as a partner
- At Root, Chrissy invests in deeply technical teams that are solving problems in robotics, hardware, industrial automation, AI, and machine learning
Background/Career
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- Engineering - scripting for military applications
- Project Management
- Large Scale Manufacturing
Very High volume manufacturing
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- What do you need to consider?
- Documentation?
- The path from nothing to something
- Reviews?
- Test runs?
- Scaling?
- Testing and Validation
- Every unit? Batch? First Article?
- What do you do with failed units?
Working with Tier 1 Manufacturers
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- How do you get started and what do you need to know?
- Pet peeves of Manufacturing
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