Jake Blair has built IoT systems that don’t just live in the cloud, they touch the real world. From his early days in industrial settings to building smart hardware at Bastille Networks and other companies, Jake has lived the full spectrum of what "Made in America" tech means today. In this episode, he shares hard-won lessons on hardware, data pipelines, and designing for environments where things must work.

Listen for insights on engineering resilience, navigating failure, and why empathy matters even in firmware.

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