Hardware, Innovation, and The Space Safe with Oscar Hedaya

Ardan Labs Podcast

Bill Kennedy

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5.0 • 7 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In this episode of the Ardan Labs Podcast, Ale Kennedy debuts as host in her first episode, sitting down with Oscar Hedaya, founder of SPACE, to discuss building startups, navigating uncertainty, and launching innovative products. Oscar shares his journey from New Jersey to Miami, the childhood financial challenges that shaped his work ethic, and the lessons learned from college, job searching, and early setbacks. The conversation explores what it takes to start a company, develop a physical ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Art and Podcast.
0:19.1	This is Ale Kennedy.
0:20.5	And today with me is Oscar Hedaya, Oscar. Welcome to the Art and Podcast. This is Alaa Kennedy.
0:24.0	And today with me is Oscar Hedaya.
0:27.4	Oscar, in about two minutes.
0:31.9	Give me the rundown of where you are today.
0:33.5	What you're doing.
0:34.8	Where are you?
0:35.7	Tell me all that.
0:36.3	Yeah.
0:40.8	So I live in Miami, Florida. And yeah, the best, best place. It's... We're neighbors outside. Oh, where are you? We're neighbors. I'm here in Miami,
0:46.1	Florida. Hi-five. We could have done this live. I grew up in New Jersey and lived most of my life
0:52.4	in New York. I live in Miami now. This is my third startup
0:56.9	that I am involved in. And this one specifically is about security. Me and my team, we invented a
1:03.4	smart safe. So it's the first safe in the world to have cameras, a touchscreen, like tamper sensors, and it connects to a mobile app.
1:12.9	So you can think of like ring doorbell, but for safes and what safe should have been for the
1:18.9	last 15 years.
1:20.9	Oh my God.
1:21.5	This is crazy.
1:22.6	It's like my first question in my head is how did you get to that point?
1:27.7	How did you just like you just woke up and say like safe?
1:32.0	How do you get to that point?
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