Relentless My Conversation with Mehul Nariyawala, co-founder of Matic
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Jan 29, 2026 
Mehul Nariyawala, co-founder of Matic and former Nest/Google engineer building vision-first home robots. He talks about making simple, lovable hardware, choosing long stealth iteration over fast MVPs, betting on vision-only autonomy, ditching disc designs for friendly forms, and shipping through production hell while keeping simplicity as a company value.
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Purpose First Wins
- Products must have a clear purpose so users immediately know what they are for.
- Mehul Nariyawala argues a robot should look and behave like a robot to communicate purpose instantly.
Ship A Minimum Lovable Product
- When entering an existing market, build a Minimum Lovable Product that meets expectations and delights users.
- Mehul advises iterating until the product exceeds basic category norms rather than shipping a bare MVP.
Replace Many Eyes With A Brain
- Indoor robots historically added sensors without removing the blindfold of poor scene understanding.
- Mehul frames the problem: give robots a visual cortex (vision+brain) instead of many eyes with no intelligence.
