Jason Keats - Founder & Chief Hooligan, OSOM Ep #70

<p>Anatoly welcomes Jason Keats (Founder & Chief Hooligan, OSOM) to the podcast to talk about his epic career building hardware, the Solana Saga phone and all things mobile and web3. Pre-order the Saga now at solanamobile.com</p><p> </p><p>00:09 - Intro</p><p>00:25 - Background</p><p>03:27 - Working at Apple</p><p>08:07 - The Gem Phone</p><p>10:15 - Privacy at Essential</p><p>12:24 - Building for Mobile</p><p>15:52 - Hardware he wants to build</p><p>17:07 - Crypto x Cars</p><p>19:02 - Do Apple or Google care about hardware and crypto?</p><p>21:08 - Innovation in hardware</p><p>21:56 - The saga phone</p><p>22:56 - The manufacturing process</p><p>26:29 - How to start building</p><p>27:56 - Working with start ups</p><p>29:15 - The innovation cycle in hardware</p><p>30:36 - Privacy features</p><p>32:42 - Working with non-crypto people</p><p>36:08 - Outro</p><p> </p><p>DISCLAIMER</p><p>The content herein is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose. Those who appear in the content may have a financial interest in any projects referenced, and any content herein is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.  This content is intended to be general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional advisor.</p><p> </p><p>Anatoly (00:09):</p><p>Hey, folks. This is Anatoly and you're listening to The Solana Podcast. And today, I have Jason Keats with me who's the CEO and co-founder of OSOM. Welcome.</p><p>Jason (00:18):</p><p>Hey, how's it going? Glad to be here. Glad to chat everything we've been working on finally.</p><p>Anatoly (00:22):</p><p>Yeah. Me too. It's been ki