Before the hype, before the funding—Kartik & Jack interview founders in the trenches, year one. Learn from the raw, unfiltered start.
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Can Camera Glasses Democratize the Human Experience? Chris Samra on Building Waves (Ep.22)
Join Kartik Sathappan and Jack Dwyer as they sit down with Chris Samra, co-founder of Waves (https://www.waveglasses.com/), the viral camera glasses built for creators. We explore how Waves went from a Black Mirror-inspired idea to a launch video with 30M+ views, the privacy debate, and why Chris wants Waves to be more like Ray-Ban than “smart glasses.”
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Chapters:
00:00 Meet Chris & Waves
05:37 Design that looks good
10:45 Privacy debate
20:46 From Black Mirror to clips IRL
25:25 Capturing human moments
30:44 Brand > hardware
35:03 Creators as GTM
28 Aug 2025
Can Healthy Fast Food Add Years to Your Life? Clayton Mooney on Building Clayton Farms (Ep.21)
Join us on this inspiring episode of Out of Office, where Kartik Sathappan and Jack Dwyer sit down with Clayton Mooney, founder of Clayton Farms (https://claytonfarms.com), to explore the future of healthy fast food and the fight against the lifespan crisis caused by America’s eating habits.
Clayton shares his unlikely journey—from growing up on an Iowa farm, to a career in professional poker, to building indoor farms that now power a profitable restaurant model. His mission? To give back millions of years of life to humanity by changing the way we eat, one healthy fast food meal at a time.
We cover how Clayton is competing with giants like Sweetgreen, why transparency and open-source food systems matter, and the bold vision of scaling to a thousand restaurants over the next two decades.
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Chapters:
00:00 From Iowa Farm to Poker Pro
06:02 Tackling Food Waste with Kinosol
08:46 Building Clayton Farms: Indoor Farming Innovations
11:26 From Delivery Service to Restaurant Model
19:53 Competing with Sweetgreen & Scaling Healthy Fast Food
30:49 Health, Entrepreneurship & Building a Mission-Driven Brand
44:33 Fundraising, Transparency, and Open Sourcing the Farm
59:21 The Future of Nutrition & Adding 70 Million Years of Life
21 Aug 2025
Can a Cute Computer Fix Your Phone Addiction? Sarv on Building Origami (Ep.20)
Out of Office — Ep.20
Kartik Sathappan and Jack Dwyer sit down with Sarv, founder of Origami Computing — a playful “sidekick computer” aiming to make our relationship with tech healthier. We cover the journey from scrappy, screenless prototypes to a colorful device that feels human, why phones exhaust us, and what it really takes to learn hardware, raise a round, and build something people love.
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Chapters
00:00 Meet Sarv and the birth of Origami Computing
02:35 What makes a device “healthy”
05:12 The digicam prototype and retro tech’s comeback
07:46 A silent rebellion against social media
10:50 From screenless experiments to sidekick computers
12:57 Why cute eyes went viral
15:00 AI as self-actualization, not autocomplete
19:59 Moving to SF: from scarcity to abundance
22:27 Teaching himself hardware and PCB design
26:29 Mentors, suffering, and the hard truths of hardware
28:18 Staying true in a hype-driven Silicon Valley
30:56 GTM, social media virality, and the weight of followers
33:38 Building a tiny but mighty team
34:11 Berkeley lessons: liberal arts, CogSci, and POV
39:11 Almost dropping out, Tech Twitter, and finding direction
43:27 Early curiosity: clubs, skateboards, and coding hands
44:53 Creativity beyond tech: music, writing, and art
45:34 Social media, hermits, and healthier online spaces
47:41 Origami’s vision: a phone that feels human
49:09 The future of AI-native devices
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