MEP EP#180: Chrissy Meyer and Personal Errata Datasheets

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

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  • Engineering - scripting for military applications
  
  
  • Project Management
  
  
  • Large Scale Manufacturing
  
  
  
  

Very High volume manufacturing

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  • 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

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  • How do you get started and what do you need to know?
  
  
  • Pet peeves of Manufacturing
  
  
  
  

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