Publishing Details
About This Podcast
Explore Statistics
Recent Episodes
S1E20 Quitting Apple to go all in on a hardware startup - with Dhaval Patel, Lotus Founder & CEO
✍️ Show NotesIn this episode, we get an inside look into the mind of a high performing Big Tech engineer-turned hardware founder. Dhaval Patel began his career at Apple, working through the ranks…
S1E19 Building for yourself then pivoting into a life-saving niche
✍️ Show NotesMark Condon built the iPupPee device to address a very personal pain point he felt with his chocolate lab, Champ. Not long after he started sharing his product with the people around…
S1E18 Academic Research to Product: Filling the gap between the lab and the launch
✍️ Show NotesJana Rieger of Breth Tech is a clinician-scientist who turned her research into a hardware product, co-founding and becoming CEO of True Angle. She shares her story and her passion to…
S1E17 From Ivy League engineer to hardware founder
✍️ Show NotesNaom graduated from an Ivy League and was scrolling through his 'Ideas' notes page trying to figure out what he wanted to do next when he decided to create a heated vibration massager to…
S1E16 Trend to Tribe: How Totem turned virality into community
✍️ Show NotesCarter Fowler, CEO & co-founder of Totem Labs, shares the incredible journey of going viral and building hardware tech for music festivals. Carter shares valuable lessons in building…
S1E15 Combining AI and Robotics
✍️ Show NotesMahesh Krishnamurthi, co-founder of Vayu Robotics, gives an inside look at the journey of creating an AI-powered delivery robot. Important questions we discuss: how to know when you have…
S1E14 Turning a Love for Music into a Hardware Product
✍️ Show NotesTobias Butler shares his journey of building Tuneshine, blending software and hardware. He talks about the challenges of switching to hardware, the importance of prototyping, and what he…
S1E13 Building Hardware to Strengthen Mind-Muscle Connection with Ethan Pollak
✍️ Show Notes Joining us this week is Ethan Pollak, co-founder of Pulse Device, a small nifty device that incorporates the idea of muscle tapping to help you get the most of your weightlifing…
S1E12 Wearables That Unlock Women’s Potential in Midlife - featuring Loewen Cavill, CEO @ Amira
✍️ Show Notes: Loewen Cavill joins us this week to share her story as the founder and CEO of Amira, a health tech company helping women unlock their full potential. We touch on all things product…
S1E11 Starting a Hardware Business in College with Cade Spector
✍️ Show Notes Cade Spector was just a sophmore in college when his brother tragically took his own life due to substance abuse. With no formal engineering or business background, Cade knew he had to…
S1E10 Solve Your Own Problem, Serve a Niche
Jon Fawcett created Sugar Pixel: He saw a problem at home, solved it for his family, and then discovered it would help millions of people around the globe. ✍️ Show Notes: Jon Fawcett went from…
S1E9 Sit On The Floor More! With Greg Klein, creator of floor-sitting-to-standing desk
✍️ Show Notes: While working from home during COVID, Greg Klein wanted to sit on the floor. But he couldn't find a desk that actually allowed for that. So, he scratched his own itch and brought to…
S1E8 The Earth and Engineering
✍️ Show Notes: Dan Casciato and his team at Lightbrite are building mostly in stealth, but Dan has some strong perspectives on the interplay between engineering and the Earth - our environment, our…
S1E7 Red light therapy brings better sleep for all: Helight
Greg from Helight joins this week and talks about his background as an audio engineer, and how that translates over to light engineering, as well as some of the challenges and lessons learned while…
S1E6 Find your inner child with Truest North Compass
Karl joins us with his amazing storytelling to share how he manifested fun and wonder into his latest invention, the Truest North Compass. 🔗 Check out truestnorthcompass.com 🔑 Bytes: Do childish…
S1E5 Using Water to Store Energy: Greener Power with GreenPWR
Mitch joins the show this week to talk about his journey hopping between corporate and startups, and now starting his own venture — GreenPWR. His first product, the SunHopper-D, aims to utilize…
S1E4 Lace Up with LaceClips: Sport-specific fitness tracking
This week I'm chatting with Jonathan, who is reimagining fitness tracking specifically for sports in order to measure things like steps, jumps, and pivots. The origin story is a fun one - sometimes…
S1E3 Make any watch smart with Ganance
The dynamic duo, Alex & Ian join me from Ganance, where they're bringing fitness metrics to classic watches, combining sensor tech with stylish choices. We dig into the inspiration and ideation…
S1E2 Safer Beach Days with the Sun-A-Wear UV Tracker
Sam joins us on Fika Bytes this week to talk about developing the sun-a-wear UV tracker going from prototyping to production. My favorite part was what he decided to do when they were having…
S1E1 A Weightlifting Coach In Your Pocket: Calibrex
Nick from Calibrex talks about combining his passion for fitness and hardware into this pocket-sized coach. 3 Things To Takeaway A crowdsourced feature board to gather ideas from users and…
Frequently Asked Questions
Fika Bytes: Hardware Founder Stories has published 21 episodes since March 2024, covering topics in Technology.
Fika Bytes: Hardware Founder Stories is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 33m.
