hardware startup
also referred to as: hardware startups
3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 3, 2024 by Sam Lessin · across every show →
Everything said about hardware startup, oldest first
May 3, 2024 bearish
Sam Lessin says artistic hardware devices have no prayer of succeeding
“What I'm really against though is like what I call, and I say this with respect for actually like teen engineering, but like I'll call it like artistic entrepreneurship where there's no prayer that these devices work. There is, it's fun to invest in.”
Sep 27, 2024 neutral
Morin: Successful hardware startups require immediate enterprise or defense revenue
“The hardware stuff that does work as a startup tends to have an enterprise use case of some kind that enables it to, you know, really have a business model straight out of the gate. And those tend to be, you know, in the case of zip line, it was healthcare and…”
Sep 27, 2024 neutral
Morin: Hardware requires rare capital discipline or massive enterprise scale
“To play in hardware, you either have to be the most disciplined startup entrepreneur of all time, and probably somebody who's done it multiple times, and is willing to go through it again, right? And to be extremely capital efficient in the world of atoms, whi…”