Nils Mattisson

Co-founder and CEO, Minut · 1 appearance on the record.

computed by AI from the episodes · how this works → · full disclaimer →

founderexecutiveengineerLinkedIn ↗nmattisson.com ↗

After spending seven years at Apple working on exploratory hardware design and prototyping, Mattisson co-founded Minut in 2013. Minut develops camera-free, privacy-safe smart sensors and edge-AI monitoring systems for property managers and short-term rental hosts to detect noise, cigarette smoke, and environmental hazards.

7statements → 3claims → 2claims resolved → 3.86/5average certainty → 1.43/5average debate potential →

1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Nils argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Mattisson: Minut analyzes data on-device and transmits only metadata to the cloud
“Like, we make sure to make all the analysis on the device and only pass the metadata to the cloud so that there's no privacy issues.”
Nils Mattisson Apr 12, 2016 ▶ 4:39 From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Nils Mattisson on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Nils Mattisson said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Mattisson: Minut analyzes data on-device and transmits only metadata to the cloud
“Like, we make sure to make all the analysis on the device and only pass the metadata to the cloud so that there's no privacy issues.”
Nils Mattisson Apr 12, 2016 ▶ 4:39 From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230
Insight
Mattisson: Consumer hardware target pricing is 4x manufacturing cost
“Typically in a consumer hardware product, you try to sell it for about four times what it costs to make it. And that's like a rule of thumb that we're following.”
Nils Mattisson Apr 12, 2016 ▶ 9:19 From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230
Opinion
Mattisson: The environment for angel and VC investing has worsened
“The general atmosphere for angel investing has become worse. And of course, VC is even more so like, I mean, they're trying to be really fast with following the market.”
Nils Mattisson Apr 12, 2016 ▶ 14:17 From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230
Insight
Mattisson: Correlating sound with air pressure changes reliably detects broken windows
“So if you just drop a water glass and it breaks, it might give off a similar kind of sound, but it won't change the air pressure, which a breaking window will. So when you have these things happening at the same time, you can be fairly certain that, that the w…”
Nils Mattisson Apr 12, 2016 ▶ 6:01 From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mattisson: 7% of Minut Kickstarter video viewers bought the device
“About seven percent of the people who watched the video ended up purchasing the product.”
Nils Mattisson Apr 12, 2016 ▶ 7:53 From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230
Assertion Partly supported
Mattisson: Minut raised $300k from angels and $250k on Kickstarter
“We've raised about 300,000 dollars from angels, and then the quarter million from Kickstarter, and that's up until about now, we're taking about 200 K in another debt round.”
Nils Mattisson Apr 12, 2016 ▶ 13:30 From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230
Disclosure
Mattisson: Visa restrictions forced me to return to Sweden to launch Minut
“And unfortunately I wasn't able to stay in the U S with my visa. So I basically had to leave and I moved back and started the company here.”
Nils Mattisson Apr 12, 2016 ▶ 3:29 From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison Apr 12, 2016 9m
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.