Shows aimed at people who do the engineering rather than manage it. Expect specific design decisions, post-mortems on things that failed, and enough technical depth that episodes are worth re-listening to. These are the ones to pick if you find founder-interview podcasts too high-level.
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How I Built This
Interviews with entrepreneurs and innovators about how they built their companies, including hardware startups.
The Amp Hour
Electronics design, manufacturing, and entrepreneurial discussion with a focus on hardware development.
The Manufacturing Executive
Joe Sullivan talks with the leaders driving midsized manufacturers forward, alongside B2B sales and marketing experts, about growth strategy, industrial marketing, and modernising the shop floor.
Manufacturing Happy Hour
Chris Luecke interviews makers, founders, and manufacturing leaders about the trends and technologies reshaping modern manufacturing, going past the buzzwords into real tactics.
Hardware to Save a Planet
Host Dylan Garrett explores the physical technologies being built to fight climate change, pairing one climate challenge with one emerging hardware solution each episode.
IoT For All Podcast
Interviews with the people building connected products, covering IoT hardware, embedded design, connectivity choices, and what it takes to get a device deployed at scale.
Moore's Lobby
Host Daniel Bogdanoff talks with the engineers and executives behind the industry's biggest technology trends, telling the human stories behind the circuits.
Go/No-Go
Lumafield on the calls that make or break a product — designing, manufacturing and shipping hardware, plus recall news and industrial CT scans of how things were really built.
The Builder Circle
Designed to empower hardware entrepreneurs, engineers and builders to overcome challenges, reduce risk and succeed in bringing their products to market through expert insights, practical advice, and engaging discussions on relevant topics.
NPI Sherpa
A tactical NPI survival manual for the brutal middle between a working prototype and high-volume profitability, covering DFM, production scaling, and operational resilience.
Built 2 Scale
Founders Matt Perrott and Scott Wilcox on building high-growth startups at the edge of business, tech, AI, and robotics, from bootstrapped chaos to VC-backed scale.
TRADEOFFS
A podcast about the difficult choices and compromises made during hardware product development and engineering. Each episode explores real-world trade-offs faced by product teams.