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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.”
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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…”
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
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.”
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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…”
Insight
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…”
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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.”
Insight
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.”
Insight
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 …”
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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 …”
Disclosure
D'Amico: Impulse built over 200 test units before shipping its first stove
“We had to build, like, many, many, many units, like, 200 plus units to get, before we even shipped one to a customer, and put them through a battery of tests to make sure they were reliable, safe, et cetera.”
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D'Amico: Standard electric stoves consume 60 amps of home electrical panels
“If you look at someone's home and you put an electric stove in someone's house, it's like 60 amps of their like a hundred to 200 amp panel capacity is like just an induction stove, which is crazy.”
Disclosure
D'Amico: Impulse plans tabletop or two-burner appliances in 1 to 3 years
“We're working on what like tabletop devices we're going to ship, you know, in the near future. I think if you're interested in that or like a two burner, like we're definitely thinking of you guys. And I think that that's something that we're going to try to h…”
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D'Amico: Impulse has pushed over 10 OTA updates to stove customers
“We, we've done, like, over 10 OTA updates so far for customers.”
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D'Amico: Upcoming Impulse OTA update cuts pan preheat time to 40 seconds
“So, you didn't notice it before, but basically, it, it's significant, it takes about 40 seconds to get a pan up to temperature. On the public release, right now, it's about a minute 50.”
Disclosure
D'Amico: Impulse launches in hundreds of Zephyr retail showrooms nationwide
“You can buy, if you buy a direct consumer, we're shipping now, people have had them for like a year, impulselabs.com, but we're also launching nationwide in Zephyr, in showrooms that have Zephyr products and we'll be in a couple hundred showrooms, basically by…”
Disclosure
Sam D'Amico: Impulse currently operates with roughly 30 employees total
“We're, like, 30 people total.”
