Consumer Hardware in the AI Era · Part 1

What Survives When AI Eats Product Design

AI is eating product design from the bottom up. What survives is the judgment layer — and it's more specific than most people realize. Why the next decade of consumer hardware winners will be founded with a design co-founder, not an engineering-first team.

April 2026 · 7 min read
Consumer Hardware in the AI Era · Part 2

Oura: How a Jewelry Designer and Two Engineers Built an $11B Company

In 2014, the founders of Oura couldn’t make payroll. Ten years later, their company is worth $11 billion. The worked example of the design-as-cofounder thesis.

April 2026 · 10 min read
Consumer Hardware in the AI Era · Part 3

The Seven-Year Founder Window

How long do builders of defensible hardware have before AI compression catches up? About one fund cycle. Here’s why that’s the right unit of analysis.

May 2026 · 8 min read