

Founder of Kodu. Honest conversations with the founders, designers and engineers turning ideas into things you can hold.
With Matt Batchelor
What does it actually take to get something you designed onto a supermarket shelf at scale?
Phil Staunton · D2M Product Design
Phil on building a consumer pushchair brand from scratch, what actually happens after you land the dream retail listing, and the lessons he took from a failure that looked like success.
Watch & listenFelicity Boyce · Koroyd
Material scientist on factory-floor learning and the long road to building tubular core technology that actually ships.
Watch & listenSid Shaikh · Fieldwork Robotics
Building a raspberry-picking robot, and what agricultural automation teaches you about edge cases that don't sit still.
Watch & listenRob Hallifax · Windfall Energy
Designing compact home batteries for renters and flat-dwellers, and why most of the market quietly ignored them.
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Chris is the founder of Kodu, a recruitment company embedded in the world of industrial design, product engineering and hardware-led teams. Now he's turning that network into a podcast.
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