Three Hardware Scaling Problems (Ep. 152)
This lesson is an episode of Product Startup.
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Brad Pedersen, co-founder of Pela, maker of the Lomi waste appliance, and a former toy maker whose first company failed after growing too fast, tells host Kevin Mako that growth strains three things you must keep rebuilding: your people, systems and cash. He urges hiring people better than you, writing processes down before you need software and treating cash as what keeps breaking, for example by shipping straight from the factory so you never store stock; the host's firm sells product development and scale-up consulting.
Do this week
On one page, write what your people, systems and cash would need to look like at ten times your current volume, and circle the one that would break first.