Nirav Patel
@cmonkey
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Founder (and usually tweeting) at @FrameworkPuter
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2007
Standing offer: If you’re building consumer hardware and want advice on anything (business strategy, building a team, finding suppliers, go to market, design/architecture decisions, fundraising, etc), send me a DM and I am happy to have a call with you.
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This place in Chinatown, with the best noodle soup I’ve had anywhere in the US:
spicycloudrestaurant.com
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I forgot how much more fulfilling it is to read a short story collection than it is to scroll on this app. Posting here to remind you too.
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In every film set in San Francisco, the city itself becomes the star. It’s hard not to love this place.
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Adding a couple of simple screening questions to job applications is really useful. ~50% of the applications show the same few default AI-generated responses, which makes it fast to resume screen directly to rejection.
Because our product philosophy is pretty unique in consumer electronics, we sometimes build up roles "from scratch" rather than trying to find existing experience. We just opened an Associate Hardware Product Manager role that reports to me. The plan is to grow that person over
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Because our product philosophy is pretty unique in consumer electronics, we sometimes build up roles "from scratch" rather than trying to find existing experience. We just opened an Associate Hardware Product Manager role that reports to me. The plan is to grow that person over
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New standing offer: if you think the food in SF is mid, send me a DM and I am happy to recommend you restaurants you will love.
Standing offer: If you’re building consumer hardware and want advice on anything (business strategy, building a team, finding suppliers, go to market, design/architecture decisions, fundraising, etc), send me a DM and I am happy to have a call with you.
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D30 retention targets should be very different for consumer hardware than for software. If you’re not well over 50%, you’re just creating an e-waste pipeline.
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How many years until a humanoid robot can enter a previously unseen kitchen and successfully find and cook an egg over easy?
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To avoid disappointing anyone later who wants to ascribe beliefs to me, I am pro-immigrant and pro-LGBTQ. I’m also pro open source and have committed myself to guiding people out of closed ecosystems into open ones. This is not posted under duress, but under a realization that
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The only good business books are history books and biographies: The HP Way, The Xiaomi Way, The Power Broker, etc
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Reading The HP Way. The company described therein is totally unrecognizable today (from the outside at least). What a loss.
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If this sounds like you or you know someone great, let me know!
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This is also obviously a team I care about deeply, and the right combination of hands on engineering and mentorship/managing mindset for our culture and scale is key.
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