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L129 - Squint CEO Devin Bhushan Shares His Journey Creating an AR Platform for Manufacturers Engineering ArchiTECHure
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The video features an insightful interview with Devin Bhushan, CEO and Founder of Squint. He shares his background studying computer science, working at Yahoo, Splunk, and ultimately being inspired to start Squint to leverage AR's potential to surface helpful information to users.
After extensive research into manufacturing's challenges, Devin built Squint's initial product to address the industry's training inefficiencies. He describes Squint's AR ability to guide operators through procedures and leave contextual notes, reducing training time by 86%. Devin discusses Squint's fundraising, go-to-market strategy, being part of Sequoia's ARC accelerator, and most proudly hearing customers share how Squint enables them to accomplish goals more easily. He offers founders advice to stay laser-focused on users' needs. Overall, the video provides a fascinating overview of Devin's journey founding an AR startup and delivering immense value to enterprises.
Here are timestamped chapter summaries
00:00 - Introductions
00:57 - Devin's background
03:41 - How Devin got interested in AR and started Squint
07:33 - Why Devin focused first on manufacturing
11:08 - Building the initial product and getting first customers
16:01 - Video demo of Squint AR training app in manufacturing
18:14 - Video demo of using Squint for airplane preflight checklist
21:07 - Discussion of spatial accuracy and performance of Squint AR
26:00 - Future roadmap - integrating external data sources and plugins
28:00 - Fundraising process
35:48 - Typical day - sales calls in morning, team walks in afternoon for bonding
38:03 - Go-to-market strategy - LinkedIn, content marketing, outbound
41:02 - Started with top-down sales approach, future bottoms-up potential
43:00 - Building founding team with people you know and trust
49:00 - Timeline for fundraising
50:00 - Pre-seed valuations - more about investor-founder match than formula
53:00 - Overview of Sequoia Arc program format
56:05 - Excited about new product features, scared about scaling company culture
58:00 - Proudest moment
59:00 - Contact details, advice for founders to stay close to users
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The video features an insightful interview with Devin Bhushan, CEO and Founder of Squint. He shares his background studying computer science, working at Yahoo, Splunk, and ultimately being inspired to start Squint to leverage AR's potential to surface helpful information to users.
After extensive research into manufacturing's challenges, Devin built Squint's initial product to address the industry's training inefficiencies. He describes Squint's AR ability to guide operators through procedures and leave contextual notes, reducing training time by 86%. Devin discusses Squint's fundraising, go-to-market strategy, being part of Sequoia's ARC accelerator, and most proudly hearing customers share how Squint enables them to accomplish goals more easily. He offers founders advice to stay laser-focused on users' needs. Overall, the video provides a fascinating overview of Devin's journey founding an AR startup and delivering immense value to enterprises.
Here are timestamped chapter summaries
00:00 - Introductions
00:57 - Devin's background
03:41 - How Devin got interested in AR and started Squint
07:33 - Why Devin focused first on manufacturing
11:08 - Building the initial product and getting first customers
16:01 - Video demo of Squint AR training app in manufacturing
18:14 - Video demo of using Squint for airplane preflight checklist
21:07 - Discussion of spatial accuracy and performance of Squint AR
26:00 - Future roadmap - integrating external data sources and plugins
28:00 - Fundraising process
35:48 - Typical day - sales calls in morning, team walks in afternoon for bonding
38:03 - Go-to-market strategy - LinkedIn, content marketing, outbound
41:02 - Started with top-down sales approach, future bottoms-up potential
43:00 - Building founding team with people you know and trust
49:00 - Timeline for fundraising
50:00 - Pre-seed valuations - more about investor-founder match than formula
53:00 - Overview of Sequoia Arc program format
56:05 - Excited about new product features, scared about scaling company culture
58:00 - Proudest moment
59:00 - Contact details, advice for founders to stay close to users
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mayur-m-mistry/message
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