Hacker Practice: Growth, Systems, And Risk For Startups And Smb

Building products from scratch is hard. Building a business is at least as difficult. A lot of young founders and entrepreneurs lose their minds trying to grapple with the interwoven complexities of these disciplines. Chris Michaud has figured them both out. Chris is a rising phenom in the world of industrial design and manufacturing. In 2015 he left a full-time gig and started First Summit Design, a product consulting group with a focus on industrial design for cool products. He's since become involved with a number of other design-focused companies that we discuss in some depth. We had a great conversation about hardware design and manufacturing, serial entrepreneurship and work/life balance.  I hope you enjoy this episode of Hacker Practice with Chris Michaud Notes [01:30] Justus and Chris met when they came together to work on an IoT project for a somewhat obscure sport. [04:30] What is industrial design? [06:15] Why Chris focuses on the ideas behind design rather than influential design figures. [07:30]