[rajens]

This lecture was a bit different from most of the course lectures and not because it was hardware focussed. I felt like it was a lot more 'high level' with less tactical startup takeaways as compared to other lectures. His slides were very elaborate, but lacked real actionable content. In many ways, they were what I'd call "business school" or "management consultant" style case study slides geared towards bringing design thinking to a larger organization. He even mentioned a couple of times- the difference between him needing to force people from different disciplines in a room together versus being able to do it sitting at a table when you're just starting out. I think that was a prime example of the difference between 'startup' thinking and 'growth' thinking. I would've loved to hear more about his process for thinking about design when they just started the company.

In any case, I did find value in his lecture and thought process around treating everything as a system (instead of looking at hardware, software, data all discretely). I've tried to capture my takeaways via publishing 22 Quotes that I took away from the lecture here: https://medium.com/@RajenSanghvi/22-quotes-from-hosain-rahma...

[dmritard96]

exactly my reaction. As someone pretty busy with building connected hardware systems, I made a point of watching this. It was great but I think where this comes into play is when you have an established revenue stream and the ability to move slowly and judiciously. Learned a lot, but 'startup' isn't the word that comes to mind.