🎙 Nick Pinkston, Volition // Hackster Café

Nick Pinkston has spent his career "building companies to make hardware as easy as software." His new venture? Volition, a database cataloguing millions of parts and related technical product data – from terminal connectors and lab equipment to office chairs. With a unified check-out system that simplifies placing an order across multiple vendors, in their own words, "Volition is a powerful tool designed for engineering and supply chain teams to more efficiently find and buy off-the-shelf components." We dig into the present and future of this tool – as well as Nick's illustrious past with Plethora, CloudFab, HackPittsburg, and more!

Links:
// Volition: https://www.govolition.com
// Twitter: https://twitter.com/govolition
// Nick's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickPinkston
// Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickpinkston
// Now hiring at Volition: https://www.govolition.com/join-us
// "Building the God Machine" talk: https://www.slideshare.net/nickpinkston/building-the-god-machine-251260073
// 10,000-year clock: https://longnow.org/clock
// "Cube Rule" of food: https://cuberule.com
// Hardware startups on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/hwstartups