Carl Pei
8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 13, 2024 by Carl Pei · across every show →
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Aug 13, 2024
Pei: Early hardware founders must act like Tim Cook, not Jony Ive
“I think for most people they should be 90% Tim Cook, if I'm honest, because survival is the name of the game for hardware. Only when you survive and you pick up in volumes, you pick up in When you pick up the volumes, you can get stronger engineering teams, yo…”
Aug 13, 2024
Pei: Foxconn historically took inventory risk for phone startups and got stuck
“Foxconn and their competitors, they took on the inventory risk for the startups as well. So when the startups made a big projection in terms of the unit sales and they couldn't deliver, they were fine. Foxconn was stuck with inventory.”
Aug 13, 2024 negative
Aug 13, 2024
Pei: Hardware startups must sequence products to build manufacturing credibility
“If you want to do it, I think you should go ahead, but maybe think about like the sequencing of things. Like in our example, like we had to get the earbuds to sell really well before going into the phone. Like how can we build credibility to the next thing?”