My dad was a mechanical and electrical engineer and taught me basic programming. I was very fortunate and privileged to have access to computers, because not everyone did at that time. I first heard about the internet before there were web browsers.
We had one in our house when I was three or four years old. I think the PET was the first home computer on the market. When I was young, my father was an executive at Commodore. Scott: Where are you from, and how did you get here?Īmir: I grew up around computers.
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Companies like Lime, Nestle and Stay Alfred are already using the network.įresh from a $15 million Series C raise that included investors like Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and Napster visionary Shawn Fanning, Amir called into the show to discuss his unfair advantage, kicking Comcast to the curb and reimagining the gig economy. Helium aims to simplify connecting things like IoT devices and sensors by building a network of wireless operators. As Helium develops and people start to use it and more applications come on board, it’ll seem less crazy.” “The earliest adopters take those chances. Now they’re the largest hospitality provider in the world,” says Helium CEO and co-founder Amir Haleem. “Even after Airbnb started to get some success, I was still dumbfounded that people would rent out their house. Then if you’re lucky, they’ll take your innovations for granted.
It takes the confidence to know that people will think you’re crazy at first. Building the world’s first peer-to-peer wireless network takes more than just brilliant engineering.
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