Sam D'Amico
Founder & CEO, Impulse Labs. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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After earning electrical engineering degrees from Stanford and developing hardware at Google X and Meta, Sam D'Amico founded Impulse Labs in 2021. Impulse Labs builds battery-integrated home appliances, beginning with an induction cooktop powered by an internal lithium iron phosphate battery.
2shows
2appearances
40statements
21resolved
15supported
3contradicted
71%fully supported
1said about them ↓ Everything Sam D'Amico said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Sam D'Amico: Impulse will become the grid's key storage power broker
“Once we sell these to a bunch of people, we've then basically backdoored ourselves as like the key storage power broker on the electric grid, because we'll have batteries in everyone's house.”
Sam D'Amico: Every household electrical device will eventually integrate a battery
“Everything will have a battery because batteries would be basically cheap or free effectively. If everything has a battery and you can, they can choose when to charge. And I'm sure you've seen like the iPhone pop up where it's like your iPhone can choose when …”
Sam D'Amico: Chinese EV makers offer Tesla Model 3 equivalents for $25,000
“China can offer. Like you can get a Tesla model three equivalent vehicle for like 25 K delivered and the vehicle quality is fantastic today.”
D'Amico: Impulse cooktop boils a liter of water in 40s with 10,000W
“So we're putting 10,000 watts of power into a, like, medium-sized pan. Or pot. And, ah, we can boil about a liter of cold water in about 40 seconds.”
D'Amico: Impulse stoves add a 3kWh battery for 15,000W boost power
“So basically we put a three kilowatt hour LFP battery, lithium iron phosphate inside home appliances, starting with stoves that gives us an additional 15,000 Watts of additional power. So that's like double what a typical induction cooktop has in terms of aggr…”
D'Amico: Impulse will ship globally with major appliance OEMs this year
“So we've got multiple deals with multiple major appliance manufacturers, some of which have announced some of which have not announced and we'll be shipping globally this year through a number of partners.”
D'Amico: Decoupling appliances from the grid via batteries is unprecedented
“If you slam a battery into it, you're now not, you, you've decoupled the energy input from the wall with the device's power outputs. You can decouple the user experience from the grid. And that level of, like, approach has not been done in kind of the major ho…”
D'Amico: Home appliances avoid the costly developer subsidies of VR platforms
“If you need to have an app store to make the thing work, well, you need to subsidize all these developers to basically come to your platform. And I want, you don't need an app store for home appliances. Now, maybe some people think that that would be a good id…”
D'Amico: CEOs of 30-person hardware startups should be actively coding
“If you're a thirty-person hardware startup, like, the CEO better be coding, right, so.”
Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery delivers 4-5x more power into the pan
“In our case, we can do that in about a minute because we can push order of magnitude Four to five times more power into the pan than pretty much any other stuff. Because the battery is right there able to give us DC power straight to the coils.”
Sam D'Amico: Impulse cooktops achieve 240V performance on standard 120V outlets
“Typical stoves use, like, 60 amps or something like that. We can run on as little as, like, at 240 volts. We can run on as little as a 120 volt outlet. So you can just plug this thing in with, like, your normal, like, AC power cable and get the same stove perf…”
Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery stove qualifies for a 30% federal tax credit
“Because this thing has a battery and because that battery is Three kilowatt hours. We get a. 30% tax credit on the product.”
Sam D'Amico: Nonstick pans exist because traditional stoves lack exact temperature control
“The entire existence of nonstick pans is driven by the fact that people, like, basically stoves have, like, incomprehensible zero through 10 settings versus an exact temperature.”
Sam D'Amico: Three to four battery appliances equal a home Tesla Powerwall
“If you have like three or four appliances per home, you've now deployed about a power wall per house. And so once you have a pop, like once you, which is like, let's say, 12 kilowatt hours or something like that, that is like half the energy use of a typical A…”
Sam D'Amico: EV battery cell costs have dropped to $50 per kilowatt-hour
“And now we're looking at like, sell costs of like, 50 dollars a kilowatt hour for reference, like a kilowatt, like a typical Tesla model three pack is like, 60 kilowatt hours or something like that. So it's like, you end up with battery packs that could be lik…”
Sam D'Amico: Battery mining footprint will be substantially lower than fossil fuels
“The, like, visible footprint of this, I believe, will be substantially lower than, like, the fossil fuel version, just because of the fact that batteries last the life of the vehicle, typically.”
D'Amico: Complex hardware takes 2 to 3 years depending on new modules
“Typically the length of time it takes to build a complex hardware device, I think it's like, it's two years if you don't have to really invent, like, new modules and systems. It's probably three if you know, if you do.”
D'Amico: Tesla won by building cars end-to-end like consumer electronics
“The big innovation of, like, Tesla versus Other car companies that, like, Tesla did a couple key things. One is they made the electric car work, but then the second thing they did is they built it like a phone, where they controlled, like, and the Model S was …”
D'Amico: Impulse delivers up to 5x more power than standard induction stoves
“So that's, like, three times what most induction stoves are, and, like, it's, like, five times what they are when they're not in that, like, boost mode in a bunch of cases, which is often time restricted, because they don't have the temperature sensor to know …”
Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery stove is 3x more powerful per heating element
“We've built the world's best stove. And it's three times more powerful per like heating element and more precise than any other stove. And we enable that by embedding a lithium iron phosphate battery into the stove itself.”
Smart features fail unless appliance startups outperform incumbents on core specs
“If you're a new entrance to the space, you wouldn't necessarily be able to compete with the incumbents or someone who like knows what they're doing around the kitchen. You wouldn't be able to compete with the incumbents because like you weren't actually better…”
Sam D'Amico: Induction stoves account for only 1% of home energy consumption
“The average us house uses something like 20 or 30 kilowatt hour, all electric house is about 20 to 30 kilowatt hours of energy a day. My understanding of if you go look at the energy star standards for induction stoves, An induction stove on average uses like …”
Sam D'Amico: Gas stoves lose 60% of their energy to ambient air
“Estimated around like 60% of the energy that comes out of your gas flame heats the room, not the pot. And meanwhile, induction is like, 95% plus, depending on a bunch of different internal electrical details.”
Sam D'Amico: 8-10 kWh per home drastically cuts grid blackout risks
“If you distributed like over 10 kilowatt hours per home in the U S like. You can ride out pretty major like outages. And the big story with like a heat wave is heat waves are really bad for the grid because essentially everyone's turning their AC on full blast…”
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