S3-39 Framework CEO Nirav Patel: A New Approach to Consumer Hardware

Interview with founding member of Oculus, hardware-pioneer, and CEO of Framework, Nirav Patel.

0:00 Breaking into Framework HQ

1:11 Experience at Apple

2:05 Becoming employee 0001 at Oculus

3:20 What worked for Oculus? 

4:30 Founding Framework

6:32 GTM for Framework & Linus

9:48 Advice for hardware

12:22 Nirav on AI Hardware

15:36 Raising little, huge impact

17:00 Hardest technical challenge

18:33 Emerging research/tech

19:06 How do you think?

20:26 Master plan

22:01 Consumer Hardware mistakes

23:12 Why Consumer Hardware?

23:48 Helpful founder resources

25:17 Branding for Framework

27:08 Framework manufacturing story

24:45 Fundraising is hard

35:45 Judging Consumer Hardware

36:47 Current Life Philosophy