I worked at Nautel Networks for eight years and then I quit and started my... True the dot com boom and both. Did you manage to sell out when you left? Of course, yes. You could argue I did 15 years of telecoms and then 10 years of semiconductors. And no, I'm doing neither. I'm building a chip that's using fundamentally new manufacturing techniques and materials and is a chip like no other.
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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