Entrepreneurs on Fire How Nick Weaver Scaled His Passion and Got His Company Acquired by Amazon
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Oct 15, 2025 
Nick Weaver, CEO and co-founder of eero, revolutionized home connectivity with his groundbreaking whole-home mesh Wi-Fi system. He shares insights on the importance of founders staying close to operational details while scaling. Discover how eero tackled Wi-Fi reliability issues, the impact of team culture on success, and the challenging journey leading to its acquisition by Amazon. Nick's advice? Find your passion to navigate the toughest entrepreneurial hurdles with resilience.
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Stay Close To The Details
- Founders must stay close to product and operational details even while scaling.
- Depth plus breadth helps solve complex business problems and maintain quality.
Early Networking Side Hustles
- Nick fixed people's computers and helped set up early home networks as a kid.
- Those early jobs taught him customer service and practical networking skills he later used at Eero.
From Napkin Sketch To Mesh Wi‑Fi
- Eero launched a simple app-driven whole-home mesh Wi‑Fi with cloud analytics and remote management.
- The idea came from combining consumer simplicity with enterprise-grade tooling Nick had seen as a network admin.