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Building a Hub to Manage Millions of Other People’s Devices

Over the Air · 28 Apr 2022 · 31m

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Lucas Haldeman, Founder and CEO of SmartRent, explains how the company built an enterprise IoT hub for the rental market by prioritizing deep partnerships with hardware manufacturers like Yale and August. He details the challenge of finding a hardware partner willing to let SmartRent control the firmware for lease-expiry logic, leading to an acquisition, and describes validating product-market fit by solving specific pain points for 44,000 single-family homes. Haldeman also discusses the balance between asset protection and renter privacy, and highlights emerging trends in environmental sensing and energy management.

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SmartRent, Yale, August, Very, Ring, Curb, PowerX
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