Alex Hawkinson
Founder & CEO, BrightAI. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Alex Hawkinson is the co-founder and former CEO of the IoT platform SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. He currently serves as the founder and CEO of BrightAI, developing sensor networks and robotics for critical infrastructure.
2shows
2appearances
13statements
4resolved
1supported
1contradicted
25%fully supported
Everything Alex Hawkinson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hawkinson: Open IoT platforms will succeed and force closed systems open
“There's enough reasons to sort of have an open, connected platform, in our view, that it will drive to be commercially successful. So it'll sort of Certainly be there alongside some of these closed efforts, and I think ultimately it'll sort of force a lot of p…”
Hawkinson: Startups should only raise venture capital after identifying their core pattern
“I'm a big believer that you take venture dollars once you know what the pattern, you know, what the pattern really is.”
Hawkinson: Great founders waste their potential by forcing bad businesses to work
“A great team working on a dumb problem is a super dangerous thing because they can like push the boulder up the hill and kind of make it work, but you're just wasting your potential and the potential of the world and everything else.”
Hawkinson: Great Companies Take 3-5 Years to Build, 18 Months to Validate
“It takes three to five years to build anything great. And you should know in 18 months.”
Hawkinson: IoT devices cost $2-$5 to connect with 1,000-foot range
“Lots of standards so that you can now connect the device for two to five bucks and have a range of a thousand feet and battery life of two years, checking in every five seconds.”
Hawkinson: 5-to-10-year opportunity for hardware differentiated by connected services
“There's an enormous opportunity for the next five to 10 years to sort of build new types of connected objects that are differentiated through the, what they, what you can do with the connected apps and services.”
Hawkinson: Virtual reality won't be plugged into, but will merge around us
“Virtual reality won't be something you plug into. It's sort of more like it's just going to merge around us”
Hawkinson: SmartThings Reaches 350M Households and 1M Events Per Second
“It's become, you know, today it's three hundred fifty million households. It's 88 countries. You know, more than a million events per second flow through the platform.”
Hawkinson: Azuria performs 60% of US water pipeline rehabilitation
“It's a multi-billion dollar company. They do 60% of the water pipeline rehabilitation in the country, and you've never heard of them, and they do something super essential for all of us.”
Hawkinson: SmartThings accidentally became a 'prison' of smart home tech
“I never intended it to be a smart home company even, and it just ended up being like a prison of smart home stuff.”
Hawkinson: BrightAI operates with just seven customers across seven verticals
“We have seven verticals. We have seven customers, you know, today.”
Hawkinson: SmartThings built hub technology allowing home automation to run offline
“So we've, Created a technology we call wiring internally. It's actually one of our patent claims, but the, ah, you know, it's a lot of thought to how you create an abstracted app in the cloud, but that the hub, it knows what portions can be executed locally, a…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Alex's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 PRODUCT MARKET FITLEDGER | Founder & CEO, BrightAI | 1 | 7 | 0% 0/2 | full record on A Product Market Fit Show → |
 MADLEDGER | Founder & CEO, BrightAI | 1 | 6 | 50% 1/2 | full record on the MAD Podcast → |