Gavin Uberti
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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But it was the kind of thing where when that kind of thing happens, that is the most important time to go ahead and be investing effort.
That is the hardest time to go do it when you feel like things are hopeless.
But like the sooner you solve that problem, the sooner you can get back to building and scaling up production to mass volumes.
And you're like, man, that was scary.
Yeah.
That like, you're sitting in that moment.
You think, holy crap, we can't afford this.
And I began looking at like, huh, how hard is it to go back to Harvard?
I think that one of our key ways we got started in this process, we thought to ourselves, what is the cheapest possible way we could do this?
Decided, well, made almost nothing.
And if I ate nothing but ramen, then we would go ahead and spend basically just the money for the mask, the 11-millimeter tape out, and that would be that.
And if so, we could probably do it on $30 million, an obscenely low number.
And we actually went out and got a debt provider,
They wanted to go ahead and lend us the money we needed to go across this chip threshold.
From there, I think it was first to go catalyze a series of other, hey, maybe we can go do one more thing, one more thing, one more thing.
I also think, like, suppliers, too, I think, deserve a little bit of a commendation here.
Yeah.
That TSMC was willing to work with us back before we raised any of that $100 million, back when it was still really, really scary.
Synopsys actually went ahead and let us get some of their emulators on extremely favorable terms, where we'd pay over many years, basically a big loan.
It takes a lot of belief from your partners to go do this, but at the end of that, you come out with this very strong team, and all the folks who back you are not in it just out of pure financial incentive.
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