Scott Summit (Bespoke Innovations) - Products With a Purpose

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2011

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

As the Co-Founder and CTO of Bespoke Innovations, Scott Summit leads a continuing effort to create products that radically change lives. In this lecture, Summit shares insights from creating customized prosthetic devices using new technologies in nascent markets. He also discusses some of challenges his company faced in discovering a working business model and developing customers.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	It is my sincere pleasure to welcome our guest today, Scott Summit.
0:22.6	I've known Scott for four years, and the moment I met him, I was blown away by the technology
0:29.6	he is developing, and I am delighted that he's going to share it all with you today.
0:32.6	He's a remarkable designer, engineer, cutting-edge inventor.
0:37.9	He's invented products for lots of really interesting companies,
0:40.7	Palm and Apple.
0:42.8	And he's doing some things today that I think will really inspire you.
0:47.4	He's doing things to really change lives in a remarkable way
0:52.7	using extremely cutting-edge technology.
0:55.0	So without further ado, Scott Sett.
0:58.0	Thanks, Tina.
1:04.0	It's really exciting to be here.
1:07.0	It's great to see everybody.
1:08.0	This is the kind of crowd that I relate to most,
1:10.0	the wild-eyed
1:11.6	blue sky thinkers in the area. Like Tina was saying, I used to be an industrial designer,
1:17.6	I guess I still am, but that was doing mass-produced, lots of stuff for high-tech companies in the area.
1:23.6	Those days are kind of done because there's some new exciting technology that allows us to think in very different ways.
1:28.3	And I just got really excited about what can be done with these, how to put these technologies to use, to create something really meaningful.
1:35.3	And so that's what I'll be speaking about today.
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