When faced with a $220,000 order for commercial locks, the Latron founders creatively sourced broken locks from local locksmiths and scrapyards to fulfill the order.

After being rejected by Kickstarter, the Latron founders built their own crowdfunding platform in under a week and sold nearly $2 million worth of their product.

I then partnered with a friend to build products for the iPhone, inspired by the potential of the new technology.

With the initial funding, we hired engineers to help develop our iPhone app, but faced delays in getting it approved.

After sharing his ideas with his friend Max, they built a prototype of our first product in a garage, which led to the decision to turn it into a company.

Before founding Linear, I was a founding designer at Coinbase and a principal designer at Airbnb, where I learned the importance of building tools that are fast and efficient.

The launch of the iPhone in 2007 sparked my idea to design a mobile app, leading to the creation of my first business, Six Agency. I wanted to push the idea that you don't need a full catalog of products in front of a customer on a small device; the app would show only one highly curated product per day, which could be anything from a pencil from Japan to a beautiful watch.

The first device we've been working on has completely captured our imagination, and Jony believes it is the best work our team has ever done, following his iconic designs like the iPhone and MacBook Pro. The prototype device I took home is the coolest piece of technology the world will have ever seen.

We launched the prototype in January 2010, and it took off by word of mouth, even before a public launch, surprising us as it was just an API for charging credit cards.