Siroker: Rewind is exploring custom hardware due to off-the-shelf device limitations
Dan Siroker · AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI) · Sep 14, 2023 · at 1:00:18
Dan Siroker, co-founder and CEO of Rewind AI, discusses exploring custom hardware beyond off-the-shelf Apple devices in a conversation with Todd Jackson.
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“We are hiring for hardware people so it's possible that down the line if we cannot, by the way, I'm very much a big fan of software. I don't know if you're if you've ever done anything hardware related, but software has many, many benefits of which I'm the biggest fan, but there's limitations of what hardware that, that Apple provide and you can buy off the shelf. And to the extent that we can deliver on our vision of giving human superpowers With hardware, that might be coming too.”
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