MEP EP#180: Chrissy Meyer and Personal Errata Datasheets

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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