Nate Padgett

Nate Padgett is a hardware entrepreneur and community organizer who has been building hardware teams, products, and companies for 15 years. He cofounded informal, a global hardware talent network with hundreds of members around the world, Studio 45, a co-working space for hardware professionals in San Francisco, and Hardware Meetup, a community of 40k hardware professionals that meet monthly in 40 cities around the world. He is also Co-host of a podcast called Tradeoffs. He lives and breathes hardware and is dedicated to connecting every founder with the people, places, and things they need to build generational hardware companies.