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> It stood out to me that the author of the post is the COO at a meditation service start-up, not a manufacturing one... Unless Ten Percent Happier is making ph
by kasperni 4y ago
> It stood out to me that the author of the post is the COO at a meditation service start-up, not a manufacturing one... Unless Ten Percent Happier is making physical products that I'm unaware of.
The guy started bolt.io. A VC for hardware based startups and got $100 million funding. So I think he knows a thing or two about manufacturing.
- hef19898 4y agoHe knows a thing or two about getting money to fund hardware start-ups. Which is something different.
- KyeRussell 4y agoThe assumption that the people that get growth-hungry “investors” to splash the cash in a cheap-money environment is what makes this a cycle.
- LeifCarrotson 4y agoTo give him the benefit of the doubt, he seems to be writing to people wanting to make small electronic gadgets. You can't sell something for $19.99 retail that requires a lot of hands-on time. At a quick scan, Bolt.IO includes "Carbon Robotics - Building intelligent robots for agriculture-related applications", "Denizen - Personal prefab offices...", and "Spyce - An original restaurant concept featuring a robotic kitchen that cooks and serves delicious meals". I guarantee those robots, office furniture, and kitchens contain CNCed parts, if not hand-fitted parts. On the other hand, he also wrote "What happened when Apple wanted to CNC machine a million MacBook bodies a year? They bought 10k CNC machines to do it." If a CNC machine can't make more than one piece every 3.5 days, you're either building aircraft or you're doing it wrong.