# Beau Chimene — B4Obvious

LifeSize, Logitech and the Audio Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI0GH14qS5c

Guest page: https://b4obvious.com/interviews/beau-chimene/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beau-chimene-5a96651/

## Inside the conversation

- Growing up in Houston, learning to fly and choosing aerospace engineering
- Persistence, university and finding work that fits your strengths
- Singer Link, F-16 flight simulation and real-time software engineering
- McDonnell Douglas, the X-30 and the value of ambitious research
- NASA planning and the different time horizons of research and product development
- Iridium: technical achievement, commercial assumptions and market timing
- Moving into telecommunications testing at 3M
- A Christmas dinner connection and the move to LifeSize
- Speakerphone design, echo cancellation and beamforming
- Learning from audio products that took too many technical risks
- Balancing engineering priorities with sales incentives and business constraints
- A cryptography startup and finding the right career fit
- Joining Logitech and improving the Group speakerphone
- Rally, Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini: different products, different audio challenges
- Why technically impressive systems can still be hard to install
- Getting engineers into customer environments
- Education, curiosity and adapting as technology changes
- Retirement, happiness and the friendships behind a working life

## Longer topic video

Iridium: A Technical Success, Commercial Failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDjfbLzVXw

Audio podcast: not yet published.