S3 | Saturday Startup Stories Jason Carman

Interview with founding member of Oculus, hardware-pioneer, and CEO of Framework, Nirav Patel.



0:00 Breaking into Framework HQ

1:11 Experience at Apple

2:05 Becoming employee 0001 at Oculus

3:20 What worked for Oculus? 

4:30 Founding Framework

6:32 GTM for Framework & Linus

9:48 Advice for hardware

12:22 Nirav on AI Hardware

15:36 Raising little, huge impact

17:00 Hardest technical challenge

18:33 Emerging research/tech

19:06 How do you think?

20:26 Master plan

22:01 Consumer Hardware mistakes

23:12 Why Consumer Hardware?

23:48 Helpful founder resources

25:17 Branding for Framework

27:08 Framework manufacturing story

24:45 Fundraising is hard

35:45 Judging Consumer Hardware

36:47 Current Life Philosophy 

Interview with carbon-carbon printer, artificial solar sun schemer, space robotics guru, and future-space pirate Cole Nielsen-Cole, CTO of Orbital Composites.



0:00 Founding inspiration

4:53 Similarity between drones & satellites

6:20 Why Carbon Fiber is hard

9:42 Heat treatment for rocket nozzles

14:38 Cole’s artificial sun

16:59 List everything you’re doing

21:28 What first inspired you? 

24:44 More projects

27:58 Orbital & Artemis mission

30:39 Why care about Mars?

35:10 How do you focus? 

36:14 Hardest challenge

38:17 What does deep tech get wrong?

40:26 The inspiration problem

42:56 How do you think?

46:55 Why build hard things?

Interview with Loyal CEO and Founder Celine Halioua for Episode 37 of S³.

0:00 Dogs!
1:05 Celine’s founding inspiration
5:37 Research vs. spinning out
7:20 Celine’s superpower
8:20 Hardest technical challenge
10:14 Can bio revolutionize?
15:32 Stories from raising
18:56 Bio vs Hardtech vs Software
21:38 How do you think?
24:14 Founder learnings
26:38 Solo vs Cofounding
27:23 What deep tech gets wrong
32:01 Current life philosophy

0:00 Casey’s background
6:52 Casey’s Mars map
8:08 Terraform inspiration
15:04 Vision quest
17:32 Hardest technical challenge
19:35 How do you think?
24:48 Exciting future tech/research
31:11 Uncommon question
35:03 Inspiring the world
38:26 Current life philosophy

0:00 Founding inspiration
2:46 Retro design vision
5:40 Decentralized manufacturing
10:26 Highlights building
12:30 How to design a beautiful car
17:20 Different customer demand
24:29 Supply chain
27:20 Updates for Olympian
30:44 What deep tech gets wrong
33:00 Hardest engineering problem
36:15 Our own “Gigapress”
37:42 Uncommon question
40:40 Current life philosophy

0:00 Intro
0:42 Zane loves sensors
1:38 Zane’s experience with US Military
3:45 Improving the military industrial complex
5:19 I want an F-35
7:43 Founding inspiration
9:09 Hardest technical challenge
14:22 Future tech
17:40 Uncommon question (Funny VC dig)
20:30 What does deep tech get wrong?
23:28 Best Call of Duty games
24:25 How to know what to work on?
27:30 How do you think?
29:05 Current life philosophy