We've raised $116 million, right? Of which we've spent about a third. So that gives you an idea of the kind of investment it takes to build this company. But it's not the amount of money; it's the ability for us to be able to traverse multiple disciplines and domains in a small team. That's the true genius of this company. Right. And how much have you raised? No. We've got a shipping product and we've spent less than $40 million so far. Yes.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Seshu Madhavapeddy co-founder and chief executive of Frore Systems, to talk about why our devices underperform and we don;t know it (4:20), the problem with fans (8:00), inventing a new chip (13:00), how it works (17:30), why he started the company (20:30), getting into an IIT in India (21:40), leaving Nortel at the peak of the dotcom boom (26:00), startup lessons (28:10), raising $116 million (33:00), getting Frore’s chips into computers (34:50), the recruiting challenge (41:40), and his worst day (44:00).
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