Sam D'Amico is the founder and CEO of Impulse, which develops battery-integrated induction cooktops and modular appliance platforms.
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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.”
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…”
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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.”
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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.”