Fate Favors The Curious

 

Babak Forutanpour has spent 25 years experience designing technical system that delight. Through his research, Babak has been awarded over 100 patents and featured in four films. He created and helped lead Qualcomm’s employee-driven innovation program from 8 to over 2000 employees on 4 continents. Babak is currently designing and building robots at ecoATM and is Head of Product and Strategy at the Brilliant.co.

 

What does Fate Favors The Curious mean to Babak?

Babak Forutanpour responds ” I think we are so much more than our titles. We are not VPs, or Staff, or Interns. We are individuals motivated (hopefully) by our passions. Mine is to feed my curiosity. This simple mantra has been my compass as I navigate this world for the last 47 years.”

 

Episode 63…Babak Forutanpour…Fate Favors The Curious

A few months back I was invited to connect with Babak Forutanpour.  After reading the first two sentences of his profile…25 years experience designing technical system that delight. His research has been awarded over 100 patents and featured in four films…I invited him to appear on the Invention Stories Podcast.  Babak wrote back”Hi Robert, thanks for invite. I Would love to share with your listeners a little about my 110 patents, starting an innovation club at Qualcomm, being a contestant on ABC The Toy Box and my 8 products I’m looking to license or bring to market at www.TheBrilliant.co 

 

 

 

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Work Experience (from Linkedin profile)

ecoATM Gazelle

Principal, Research and Development

Mar 2015 – Present

San Diego, California

Privileged to be part of a team that designs and improves how the company’s 3,000+ robots located nationwide value consumer electronics for instant payment. Currently lead on designing next generation electro-mechanical core for 2019 domestic and international roll-out.

The Brilliant Co

Head of Product and Strategy

Jul 2014 – Present

www.TheBrilliant.co

Manage a team of designers and engineers who wake up every day driven to make products so good your friends will wrestle you for them. Our patented inventions have been featured on ABC The Toy Box, NBC Today Show, local FOX and CBS news, Gizmodo, Inc. magazine, Daily Mail and Star Magazine. Currently in development are TILTD, The Tooth Diary, PRESSD, ONEderball, The Baker Buddy, KLEAN and LifeGoesPOP!

Along with bringing our own products to market, we work with inventors to help bring their creations to store shelves everywhere.

Qualcomm

R&D Staff Engineer/Manager, Office of the Chief Scientist

Feb 2009 – Mar 2015

Greater San Diego Area

Part of a unique R&D team reporting to one of the company’s eight founders where members play both an engineering and business development role bringing compelling user experiences to market through a 4-stage venture funding process.

QCT Multimedia

Staff Engineer

2004 – Jul 2009

San Diego, California

Lead or team member on several image processing and computer vision based systems: