Meter, every mention

Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO) Dec 10, 2025 · 37 mentions

• ▶ 0:08 Brett Berson For today's episode, I'm sitting down with Anil Varanasi, co-founder and CEO of Meter, a networking infrastructure company that integrates hardware, software, and operations. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:29 Brett Berson Think about time horizons when building meter. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 11:11 Anil Varanasi There's other smarter people at meter that are doing something, but knowing that this problem exists is really important that this one thing, maybe it's hardware choices we made three or four years ago that were the wrong choices that are… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 11:40 Brett Berson Starting in the middle of the story, if you go all the way back, what was the first moment that kind of the early inklings of an insight for meter were born?
• ▶ 16:04 Anil Varanasi And then another thing that sort of was a thing that opened up in our mind is this is the easiest way to align incentives between us and customers, which is don't pay us unless the network works. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 29:29 Brett Berson When you think about those first handful of years of really building the foundation of the company, whether it be the way that you thought about the market and 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 32:12 Anil Varanasi Today, we are vertical integrated in every way except building our own chips. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 44:17 Anil Varanasi But for the companies, then we said, you know, we always knew one thing true to be about networking and meter is we're some sort of index on the economy.
• ▶ 49:24 Brett Berson As you've been telling the story of the company, it's clear that the company was predicated on rethinking the end-to-end product, rethinking the business model. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 53:52 Brett Berson One of the things in knowing a little bit about meter is there's a lot of things that you do differently, whether it be how you're in office, a lot of the manufacturing stuff you talked about, full stack, starting a company with your… 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 58:35 Brett Berson So how are you in the, the most specific way possible define what management is at meter? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:02:02 Brett Berson If I were to listen or watch how Meter employees work together, is it mainly work focused? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:11:23 Anil Varanasi I invariably in a given week learn about an entirely new topic at meter that I had no idea about a week prior.