The Masters of Engineering Podcast

How the Rise Emergency Ventilator Was Built From Scratch in 21 Days: Eduardo Torrealba, CEO of Meter

September 09, 2020 Jon Hirschtick Season 1 Episode 5
The Masters of Engineering Podcast
How the Rise Emergency Ventilator Was Built From Scratch in 21 Days: Eduardo Torrealba, CEO of Meter
Show Notes

Eduardo Torrealba is the co-founder and CEO of Meter, an industrial hardware startup that took on the challenge of building a more affordable ventilator in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. A typical medical device can take many months or even years to bring to market. The Rise Emergency Ventilator went from idea to deliverable mass-produced product in 21 days.

In this podcast, Eduardo tells Jon how his extended team of 50 professionals – engineers, hospital clinicians, software developers, and 3D printing experts – designed, built, and tested six iterations of the emergency ventilator. He also shares how cloud productivity tools (and unsustainable 120-hour work weeks) made this amazing collaborative effort possible.