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I worked at a VC funded hardware start up for the first eight years of my career. You'll never read about it here though; we made digital pathology scanners.
by EpicEng 9y ago
I worked at a VC funded hardware start up for the first eight years of my career. You'll never read about it here though; we made digital pathology scanners. When I left we had sold the company for ~300M and were bringing in about ~30M / year in revenue.
I guess my point is that there is more going on in the VC space then you'll read about on HN.
- pocketsquare2 9y agoIt would be really fantastic to hear more if you're willing to share!
- jmspring 9y agoI'll look at the article at some point, Jawbone had multiple best selling products -- bluetooth speakers being one -- no idea how that covered investment. Hell, A16Z gave all of Skype one of the speakers 6 years ago as a thank you. They did some nice hardware. What I do know, per your point, investment in and around hardware startups is not publicized. I wonder how some of the networking hardware startups that started the carriers of those I know (and benefited me) would be taken now. Cisco / Nokia / etc. hardware acquisitions apparently aren't HN sexy.
- mipmap04 9y agoThis goes well with the great-grand parent's comment on consumer hardware not being as attractive to investors. I think a lot of it lies in the complexity of the product. A smart watch or rugged video camera seems trivial to replicate and commoditise from an investment and technology standpoint compared to digital pathology scanners.
- Babooster 9y agoThat's hardly consumer hardware...