Garry Tan shot a podcast with Carl Pei, CEO & Founder of Nothing, Who built a multi-million dollar smartphone brand in just 2 years, and now generating $600 million in annual revenue through innovation and community engagement.
On the call, Carl Pei, the CEO of Nothing gave an update on X, which is known as Twitter, and shared that we just built our 1% of Nothing, the company has started its journey, and there is so much to achieve.
The Statement “We’ve only built 0.1% of Nothing, but it has been a wild ride so far, I a Grateful to Garry Tan for the platform to share our journey. 🙏”.
Recently Carl Pei shot a podcast with Garry Tan, who is the CEO and President of Y-Combinator, one of the biggest startup accelerators, sharing the journey of multi-million dollar brands from nothing.
The podcast was published on the Y Combinator YouTube channel as a Tittle ”How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years”
Carl Pei has expressed thanks and gratitude to Garry Tan on X, for offering a platform to share the nothing to Nothing (to bullying a $1 billion brand and $600 million in annualized revenue within 2 years)story, possibly through an interview or presentation.
On the Podcast Carl has shared everything here life from their backgrounds $1 billion design innovation journey.
Carl Pei Podcast: Nothing $600 Million Revenue
Here are all the topics that have been shared on the podcast:
- Carls Background & Early Interest.
- How He Entry Into the Tech Industry?
- What was the experience at OnePlus?
- How is the Nothing Founding?
- What are the challenges faced in Hardware Development?
- How Nothing Overcomes the Production Hurdles?
- How Does Nothing Build a Brand Identity and Big Community?
- Insights on Harewae Startups.
- Reflection on Design and Innovation.
How Carl Pei Built Nothing
More depth on the podcast Carl has shared, he was very fascinated by tech gadgets especially Apple devices, after some time, when he was in Sweden, buy an iPad and then an iPhone. He played and brainstormed how the apple makes such an innovative gadget.
After a young age, he joined a Chinese MP3 player brand to begin a career in the tech industry and fan community, then he joined Oppo, the camera phone brand when they were struggling to build a brand identity.
Also, shares how he and Pete Lau, shared a proposal to Oppo for a new brand launch which is now known as OnePlus. He left her position after 7 years when the brand lost its vision.
He loves to travel to new county new places but after the 2020 Covid pandemic, he started a new brand such as Nothing, and raised funds from Swedish investors the journey started. Now we have raised C rounds last year and getting to the $1 billion valuation.
As of 2024, according to the videos, Nothing Brands now generating $600 million in annualized revenue, this is happening within 2 years. It is a huge success for Carl Pei and Nothing as an early Tech Startups.
Grarry asked about the what are challenges they face in the innovation of design, hardware and software, and manufacturing.
I definitely, recommend you to watch the full podcast on the Y Combinator YouTube channel. There are so many insights, you know and learned.
