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Published: July 10, 2019, 9:25 p.m.

MEP EP#180: Chrissy Meyer and Personal Errata Datasheets
Chrissy Meyer

• Has spent the past decade taking hardware products from early concept through high-volume production
• Received a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
• Led several projects at Apple and Square
• Founding team member at Pearl Automation, a vehicle technology startup
• Developed products that have shipped tens of millions of units
• Spent over a year on the ground in Asia working closely with manufacturers and suppliers
• Recently joined Root Ventures, a seed-stage hard tech venture capital firm, as a partner
• At Root, Chrissy invests in deeply technical teams that are solving problems in robotics, hardware, industrial automation, AI, and machine learning

Background/Career

• • Engineering - scripting for military applications
  • Project Management
  • Large Scale Manufacturing

Very High volume manufacturing

• • What do you need to consider?
  • Documentation?
  • The path from nothing to something
    • Reviews?
    • Test runs?
    • Scaling?
  • Testing and Validation
    • Every unit? Batch? First Article?
    • What do you do with failed units?

Working with Tier 1 Manufacturers

• • How do you get started and what do you need to know?
  • Pet peeves of Manufacturing

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