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The AR Show: Alon Grinshpoon (echo3D) on Building the AWS for 3D and Founder-Market Fit | Otter.ai

The AR Show: Alon Grinshpoon (echo3D) on Building the AWS for 3D and Founder-Market Fit

Jason McDowall52min

Jason McDowall

00:03

Welcome to the AR show where I dive deep into augmented reality with a focus on the technology, the use cases and the people behind them. I'm your host Jason McDowall. Today's conversation is with Alon Grinshpoon. Alon is the co founder and CEO of echo 3d, a 3D-ready cloud platform that helps manage and deliver 3d AR and VR content to apps and devices everywhere. Echo3D recently closed a $4 million round of funding to feed continued growth after seeing a tremendous amount of momentum over the last year.

Jason McDowall

00:34

Alon started his career in the Israeli intelligence service working on encryption in cloud technologies. After earning a BS in computer science in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University, he spent several years as a software engineer working on improving the performance of cloud based and client server computer systems. Alon went on to receive his MS in computer science from Columbia University with a focus on computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality and human computer interaction. In this conversation, we discuss how allones background made him a good fit for solving the unique set of challenges for developing an AWS or Akamai for 3D alone as a passionate entrepreneur with great advice for early stage startups. We talked about his perspective on the concept of founder market fit.

Alon Grinshpoon

01:14

The reason that kind of we were able to grow really fast is that if you read the founders resume, there's nothing else he can do. In my case, again, you're literally seeing that kind of connection. And I think, as you mentioned early, well, that kind of founder market fit I think a lot of people focus on product market fit. But the reason for you as a founder to create a startup that you have this personal a professional connection to the problem, that you have the motivation of waking up in the morning in, you know, tackling this problem in the market needs to be really, really strong. And I think clients resonate with that investors resonated with that users resonate with that potential employees resonate with that,

Jason McDowall

01:53

Alon goes on to discuss founder investor fit and the importance of pragmatically de-risking a startup as you go along. He also shares his funding and growth journey through the RLab and TechStars accelerators and subsequent rounds of VC funding. As a reminder, you can find the show notes for this and other episodes at our website. var show.com. Let's dive in.

Jason McDowall

02:14

Alon, like you, I love a good road trip. In fact, this past summer, I got to go on an epic road trip with my family. We were on the road for over 11,000 miles. We visited 39 states is pretty, pretty amazing. A lot of ways. What was one of your favorites.

Alon Grinshpoon

02:27

Yeah, definitely. One of my best friends is actually my twin brother, who's also my co founder at Echo in we are known for doing the most amazing, and epic road trips ever. I think our first one was driving car from Denver to Las Vegas, stuffing all these national parks. And it was really, really cool experience kind of definitely a bonding experience. But also for us as twins kind of running around it specifically Las Vegas, people will always kind of jump at us like it's oh my god like to have you something that we get all the time who will actually asked us, you know, to snap photos of us on the subway here in New York. So it's a really cool thing. Something I always tell people is get a twin, it's the best thing you can have kind of a companion for your entire life. And if you're close friends enough to open a startup together even better

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