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Day 2 · Interview 17 of 223:31 PM · Moscone West

Prateek Tripathi

Founder, AIRS ML

Smartwatch-like edge AI devices that look after industrial machines.

The full conversation

4:36 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

2:57 · Prateek's answers, condensed.

Clips

6 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

A smartwatch for machines

“We are AIRS ML. And the way your smartwatch looks after your health, we create these smartwatch-like devices that we call edge processing systems. These attach to assets like CNC milling machines, robotic arms, John Deer…”

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Data movement is costly

“So rather than moving to the cloud, why do you want to do it on the device itself? So one of the main reasons is if you're sending data to the cloud there's a lot of latency but the other thing is a majority of a carbon …”

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His dad's phone rang at night

“These things take time. They take years to come into your mind. My dad worked as a reliability engineer for the oil and gas companies. He used to have a small cell phone it would ring in the middle of the night to go fix…”

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PhDs can build. Sales is hard.

“You don't pass PhDs we are always very good with building the tech but everything that comes after is the sales side of things so you need to become a more of a people person talk to a lot of people do a lot of networkin…”

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Get your hands dirty

“I think the best thing that one can do is of course get their hands dirty you always always learn by failing. You can keep thinking of an idea, but it will never come to fruition if you don't take the next leap of faith,…”

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Founding is a sinusoidal wave

“What was the lowest point actually building this? Did you almost fail building this AIRS ML? It's a sinusoidal wave, I would say. things go up things go down you see a lot of disappointments you see a lot of high points …”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

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