31 karma · joined August 5, 2016
Remote: Yes or local
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: TPM for big tech hardware and have built world class prototyping and design studios
Résumé/CV: https://standardresume.co/r/W85eBbltvubl0jVBCoi8M
Email: mattus@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymatt
I've been something like a Hardware T/PM for 10 years for big tech. Making hardware, managing hardware, budgeting and financing hardware, writing software to manage process, creating PMO, lots of 0 to 1 projects. If you have some big ambiguous difficult job to fill I'm interested.
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Leaving work to pursue a startup should only happen when you can prove well enough to VC's you're accreting revenues just barely worth investing in (to very worth investing in). If you're sane, I would wait until you can't move forward without some seed/VC and then look around for it- starting with people you know, and familiarize yourself with how funding/ownership/etc works.
You don't need to go through ycombinator, although its very worthwhile, you can just run a startup on the side or quit your job once its up and running.
If your startup is a unicorn, maybe wait a year before quitting your job, so the job market is ripping again when you fail :)
Everyone needs financial controls and financial accountability. No one should be able to spend without cosigners. If you set that up early, it will be in your company's blood. If you don't, you will ALWAYS have a culture of wastage.
I'm not trying to be the faker tho
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Hard tech, physical UX & design, financial reporting. Industrial design BFA and MBA in Entrepreneurship. Work in big tech, background consulting for state systems and tiny hardware startups.
Have worked in ID (incl UX/research) and prototyping labs (in resolution from napkin sketch -> napkin model to class A surfaces -> class A model with functional POC), managing teams of aforementioned, current senior hardware PMing the product. I work with NPI/Dev, and cross functional teams responsible for respective designs of modern, complex, upgradeable premium consumer electronics.
Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/heyitsmatt
Email: mattus+yc@gmail.comPrefer FT remote but in person some % is fine, happy to help the transitions of teams to partial/full remote in hardware, been managing remotely as well as traveling globally for some time.
I like organized, accountable leadership in companies, and would love to be a part of implementing that where my talents can help, prefer working public over private. Board leadership experience in nonprofit as well as founding a few and management thereof, in food equity and job skilling for underserved populations.
I am a bulldog and get shit done :) Love people and enjoy smoothing rough terrain in high performing teams through building up, not tearing down.