Lyn Stoler

Trying something new (ft. @boxcardavid @stolerlyn) If you're an early-career builder working on the electric stack -- we'd love to host you at our office this summer. More info in the next post.

Touring @ImpulseLabs with the Stove Guy @sdamico and @allenpark featuring never-seen-before AI cooking features. Sam is reinventing the stove from first principles: battery-powered architecture, software-defined hardware, & OTA updates. In this episode, we discuss: • Why Impulse centered the stove around a battery • How they achieved extreme power + temperature control • Why Sam sees appliances as software-defined hardware • How Claude and AI tools are already part of the product + how Sam uses AI Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:18 The Impulse Cooktop Demo 0:55 Zephyr Partnership + Showrooms 1:14 Magnetic Knob Interface 2:04 How Impulse Tests and QA’s Every Build 3:34 Rebuilding the Stove From First Principles 5:02 Impulse Core and OEM Partnerships 6:09 How Long It Took to Build the Product 8:07 The Japan Pizza Story That Sparked Impulse 9:22 Why Sam Left Consumer Hardware for Appliances 12:42 Why the Stove Was the Right Entry Point 14:31 Building Appliances “Like a Phone” 17:17 Will Impulse Ship a Single-Burner Version? 17:37 Cooking Begins on the AI Dev Unit 19:10 How Sam Uses AI to Build Software at Impulse 20:36 Scallops Demo: Real-Time Temperature Control 22:20 Boiling Pasta at 10,000 Watts 24:49 AI Recipes, Figma, and Multi-Burner Cooking 28:25 Butter, Pasta, and Controlled Temperature Cooking 30:21 Zephyr Launch and the Bigger Smart Home Vision 32:45 Global Expansion Plans 33:34 AI Features, OTA Updates, and What Ships This Year 35:14 Taste Test with the Judges 36:42 Where to Buy Impulse