EPISODE SUMMARY
Today’s Pathfinder episode features Pari Singh, founder and CEO of Flow Engineering, a startup aiming to overhaul traditional engineering approaches with its collaboration platform, specifically tailored for ‘new age’ hardware teams.
EPISODE NOTES
Modern engineering teams need to look radically different, at least according to Pari Singh, Founder and CEO of Flow Engineering. Flow, a London and LA-based startup, aims to overhaul traditional engineering approaches with its collaboration platform, specifically tailored for ‘new age’ hardware teams.
Flow provides a collaborative platform for hardware and software teams, streamlining requirements management, integrating with key design tools, and offering advanced visualization for efficient design and compliance.
Mo and Pari’s conversations covers a wide array of topics, including:
- The Flow origin story
- The stagnation of hardware innovation
- How systems engineering has evolved
- The ideal modern engineering team
- Building in London
And much more…
This episode is brought to you by SpiderOak, a US-based software company that builds space cybersecurity products and solutions for civilian, military, and commercial space operations. Learn more at https://spideroak.com/
• Chapters •
00:00 – Intro & SpiderOak ad
01:11 – Flow: from rockets to software
06:48 – Was the intention always software?
08:12 – Hardware innovation stagnation
09:32 – Flow’s products today
10:32 – New engineering management tools
12:38 – Scaling space companies
13:55 – Flow’s business model
14:39 – Other markets Flow is targeting
15:40 – The go-to market strategy
16:45 – How do you convince clients to adopt a new engineering process?
19:29 – Flow’s philosophy
22:30 – SpiderOak ad break
23:14 – Who makes up Flow’s customer base?
24:06 – The ideal Flow customer
25:32 – How has systems engineering changed since the Apollo era?
28:48 – What does a modern engineering team look like?
33:12 – Will specialization create big enough markets?
35:44 – Flow’s financing round
37:10 – Finance landscape for software companies building for hardware
39:15 – What’s it like building a team in London?
39:58 – What does the world look like if every company is using Flow?
42:10 – If Pari wasn’t building Flow, what would he be building?
42:55 – Companies that excite Pari
44:20 – What London football team does Pari support?