Back in the 80s, when I graduated, there weren't that many options in India. The route was to come out here. So yeah, there's been such a huge explosion of opportunities in computer science and in semiconductor hardware. That's where we built our careers. There's a lot of talent in software and also in semiconductors. But the problem we are trying to solve now is orthogonal to those two competencies. And that might be the reason why it had been left unsolved. Because people tend to flock and follow the herd. Yes. We wanted to really take on a problem that was a real challenge. And we felt that we've had the experience and
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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