I imagine recruiting is quite important. And we're here in Silicon Valley where lots of big companies with very deep pockets, how hard was recruiting or what? The pitch is very simple. Are you ready to change the world? Or do you want a safe job? Right. But the level of challenge and the creativity and the sheer exhilaration of solving a hard problem is catnip to a really good engineer.
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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