SEACOMP (Displaytech, HDP Power, MH MFG)

Help Innovators Deliver Awesome.

We design, engineer, and manufacture consumer, medical, and industrial electronic devices.

HQ in San Diego, CA. Manufacturing at our wholly-owned factories in Tijuana, Mexico and Dongguan, China.

Strategic Partnerships

Conduit Venture Labs

Conduit is a venture studio focused on enabling founders, inventors, and strategic innovators to focus on solving the problems that face our planet and its inhabitants working at the intersection of the physical and digital.

Fellow

The New Way Inc.

Helping families, that are experiencing homelessness, to find help, homes, & hope.

Executive Director

GTM United

Ambassador of a private community of go-to-market professionals united by a mission to put their development first. Giving feedback, asking questions, practicing self-care, and making real connections.

Content Advisor

Instawork

Our vision at Instawork is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally.

Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for hospitality & light industrial shifts. We quickly and reliably match businesses with nearby qualified workers. We’re excited to enable our Professionals, a new generation of the emerging, diverse workforce, to be a part of the growing gig economy.

Senior Account Executive

Gemini Legal

Gemini is a legal copy service that compels and obtains document evidence for California attorneys representing injured workers.

The will and hope of Gemini is to embrace and meet our clients’ true needs by providing a safe, stable and competitive work environment where employees, clients and vendors enrich their community and themselves personally and professionally. We meet our challenge through principled, personal leadership.

Business Development Manager

Quartzy, Inc

Laid off due to COVID-19
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Quartzy is a free web-based platform for managing research labs. It is used worldwide by 360,000 scientists in the academic, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical labs. 

Quartzy saves labs time and money!

As a Business Development Associate at Quartzy, I am responsible for building the supplier relationships and product portfolio that enable Quartzy to be the only free online laboratory management platform offering an extensive lab supply ordering system. 
See our rapidly growing list of supplier partners HERE:
https://www.quartzy.com/suppliers

Business Development Associate

BlueGrace Logistics

Business Development Executive

Sales Director

Senior Sales Executive

Sales Executive

Account Manager

Wolf Creek Brewery

Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with key retailers and restaurants. Assume leadership role in implementing key brewery initiatives with distributors, retailers, and restaurants. Work closely with distributor on new product releases, seasonal releases and pre-orders for brewery. Drive and grow sales. Act as the face of Wolf Creek Brewery within a given territory.

Territory Manager

Wesco Aircraft

Provide pricing analysis for management. Perform margin and pricing analysis in order to support business initiatives. Validate sales quotations for accuracy and profitability; exercise and manipulate data via analysis techniques. Develop a system of communication, documentation and review of internal and external comparative pricing data. Identify opportunities to optimize sales and profitability through pricing strategies. Confer with sales and marketing teams to develop proposals. Prepare multi-year cost and pricing models. Engage suppliers and branches.

Corporate Sales Analyst

We Design & Build Your Hardware

We design & manufacture
Industrial, medical, & consumer electronics
Small enough to fit in an oven

HQ in San Diego, CA. Manufacturing at our wholly-owned factories in Tijuana, Mexico and Dongguan, China.

Connor Bush

Shoutout to industrial designers.
Y’all do cool stuff.

Industrial designers:
Making “why didn’t anyone think of this sooner?” moments happen every day.

Connor Bush 🔋🖥📟

We Manufacture Your Hardware at Scale (USA, Mexico, & China) | Ecosystem, Pipeline & Partner Strategy

Founders always ask for the same thing:
“Do you know a partner who can do everything: Engineering, prototyping, low-volume builds, and mass production?”

I get why.
On paper, it sounds perfect:

🔹 One team that knows the product from Day 0
🔹 Smooth handoff into EVT/DVT/PVT
🔹 Manufacturing input baked into early design
🔹 Less friction, fewer vendors, more trust

Totally intuitive.

But here’s the reality almost nobody says out loud:
Those are four completely different skill sets, with different cultures, tempos, tools, and incentives.

And the partner who is world-class at mass production is ALMOST never world-class at rapid iteration.
Because the traits that make you strong at one phase often make you weak at the other.

Mass production excellence =
🔸 Rigid systems
🔸 Heavy validation
🔸 Process obsessed
🔸 Optimized for scale, yield, and stability

Early-stage excellence =
🔸 Fast
🔸 Messy
🔸 Creative
🔸 Comfortable with ambiguity and change

Trying to get one team to do both is like expecting awesome sushi at the italian restaurant. 
(They might try… but should they? 🤢)

Can it work?
Yes, but only under very specific conditions:

✔️ Clear, locked industrial design
✔️ Serious funding
✔️ No long pauses or fundraising gaps
✔️ A straight path from prototype to EVT → DVT → PVT
✔️ A product destined for mass production from Day 1

SEACOMP has done it.
But it takes alignment, timing, and a founder who understands what they are signing up for.

For most teams, the healthier model is a relay:
Expert design ➡️  expert prototyping ➡️  expert CM for scale.

Different people, same mission.

Not shaming anyone. The instinct makes total sense.
The physics of hardware are just harder than the theory.

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Want to chat on this some more? Come hang with us at #CES.

Link in the comments.

Collecting quotes for ID, ME, EE, FW, or product development is a wild ride.

$40k from overseas.
$200k from the Midwest.
$700k+ from Boston or San Francisco.
Sometimes even a $300k and a $900k quote from the same city for the same scope.

At a certain point… the limit does not exist.

But here’s what most founders miss: you’re not just paying for hours or skill.
Hardware development is art, judgment, taste, and manufacturing philosophy baked into one.

So the real question isn’t:
“Why is one quote 10× another?”

The real question is:
What are you actually buying?

• Alignment with the partner who will build or design your product
• DFM baked in from Day 1 (not after three redesign loops)
• Whether incentives are to finish or to bill more hours
• Experience in your specific product category
• How many mistakes you will not have to pay for later

Quotes can go to infinity.
(Or sometimes to $0, which is equally dangerous lol.)

The cost of choosing the wrong partner is very real.

** For the practitioners who live this every day: what’s the widest spread you’ve seen, and what do you think actually drives those gaps?

Building 1 of something is hard.
Building 1,000,000 of that same thing is just as hard, but in a completely different way.

One requires creativity.
The other requires discipline, systems, and control.

This is where a lot of innovators get surprised.
They lock the design and think the hard part is over.

But in hardware, the real climb begins when you go from “this works once” to “this works every time.”

A lead came in today.
Source: “LinkedIn, Connor Bush.” (blush / hair flip)

But here’s the part I keep thinking about…

This wasn’t an overnight win.
And honestly, the “LinkedIn, Connor Bush” part was probably the least influential piece of the whole chain.

This one lead took YEARS to show up.

It took:
⭐ A teammate building trust with a customer years ago
⭐ Our engineers and ops absolutely crushing that program
⭐ A happy customer willing to do a case study
⭐ Our marketing manager turning that story into something real
⭐ Me spending four years building a network and posting consistently
⭐ Someone in my network engaging with a post this week
⭐ LinkedIn surfacing it to a stranger who needed what we do
⭐ And that stranger clicking through, reading the case study, and reaching out

It only looks like “a lead from LinkedIn.”
In reality, it was a long chain of small things done well by a lot of people.

There’s that old line: “It takes 20 years to become an overnight success.”
In hardware and sales, sometimes it just takes 20 steps.

Everything you do matters.
And eventually… it all stacks and hits at once.
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Anyways 🤷‍♂️ , come hang with us at #CES (link in comments)

Top of funnel has been buzzing. Meetings, leads, energy everywhere.

But I caught myself doing the classic move — sprinting the first lap and forgetting there’s a whole race left to run.

Early momentum means nothing if you drop the baton on follow up and nurture.

So now I am slowing down just enough to time block, calendar, and stay consistent.

Not slowing the pace — just smoothing it out.

Slow is smooth.
Smooth is fast.
And apparently, calendars help too. 🙃

Cancelled my mini camping vacation scheduled for next week.

Not because of grind culture.
Because hardware has real deadlines.

Balance is not always a 50/50 split.

Push now.
Camping in January.
Still balanced.

Goals met <3.

If you want to ship hardware by Black Friday 2026…

Start yesterday.

Love,
Connor

Join us! 

One of many #CES events we are hosting / co hosting. 

Space is limited across the various events. We will do our very best to accommodate all of our friends! 

Check out the link in the comments for the different SEACOMP Las Vegas happenings.

Join us for an exclusive gathering for leaders shaping the future of connected hardware at CES 2026!

We’re bringing together executives, founders, and directors for an elevated networking experience at The Venetian Resort.

This is your opportunity to step out of the show-floor noise and into conversations that will move your business forward - exchange insights on scaling strategies, building resilient supply chains, and what's next in the world of connected hardware.

Connected Devices + Conversations: A Networking Happy Hour
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 | The Venetian Resort | CES 2026
Register here: https://lnkd.in/gEEu2a8q

A special thank you to our sponsors Acorn Product Development, Mesh Systems, and intent for supporting this executive gathering!

Space is limited and attendance is by approval - register to get on the list today!

Our team is heading to CES in January and we want to meet with you!

Let's meet in Las Vegas to chat about your product and how we can help support your goals. We'd love to connect on:

- scaling your production in 2026
- leveraging our Mexico facility for duty-free imports into the US
- improving your speed to market with accelerated NPI

Let SEACOMP be your manufacturing partner in 2026. See all the ways we can connect at CES and request a meeting here: https://lnkd.in/gH5E-bPD

Trying to enjoy the holidays
while also
trying to ship everything before the holidays
while also
trying to prep for CES
while also
trying to plan around CNY
while also
trying to be a human with a family.

It’s a vibe.

If you’re feeling the “festive chaos” today, I see you.
Happy Friday. 🤝

Thanksgiving (yeah, I know I’m late lol) and mass production have something in common:

99% isn’t good enough.

You can have:
- Every side dish perfect
- Table set
- Guests arriving
- Desserts ready to go

But if the turkey is two hours late?
Dinner is two hours late.

Hardware works the same way.

NPI is a chain of perfectly timed steps:
tooling ➡️ components ➡️ tests ➡️ assembly ➡️ packout

You can nail almost everything...
…but if one critical item slips, the entire schedule bends around it.

Great manufacturing isn’t about heroics.
It’s about orchestration.
Dependencies.
Timing.
Flow.

Thanksgiving looks effortless when everything hits the table at once (and when someone else is doing all of the prep lol).
So does mass production.

Neither is an accident.

Happy holidays! And if you're pushing a product toward 2026, now’s the time to start timing your “turkey.” 🦃⚙️

Lost my fantasy football matchup this week by 0.84 points.

And honestly… losing by less than 1 point feels worse than getting blown out by 40.

A blowout is clean. Clear. Obvious.
You shrug, you move on, you fix your roster.

But a tiny margin loss?
That sticks with you.
You replay every lineup choice.
“Should’ve swapped that flex…”
“Why didn’t I check injuries…”
It lingers because it was just close enough.

Hardware is the same.

A catastrophic failure forces you to stop.
Rebuild.
Fix the root cause.
Come back stronger.

But a small, non-catastrophic failure in the field?
A 1% return rate.
A flaky latch.
A charging bug that “only happens sometimes.”

That is the dangerous one.

Because it’s just tolerable enough to live with.
Just cheap enough to avoid solving.
Just annoying enough to hurt reputation and growth
but not painful enough to trigger full correction.

Small problems linger.
And lingering problems compound.

In fantasy football, it costs you a matchup.
In hardware, it can quietly cost you the whole season.

If you're leading teams building connected devices, this is the room you’ll want to be in at CES! 

Meet other CEOs, founders, VPs, and product executives for a thoughtful break from the show. This networking event is designed for high-level discussion, insight sharing, and strategic relationship building. 

Connected Devices + Conversations: A Networking Happy Hour
Tuesday, January 6 @ The Venetian Resort during CES 2026
Please Register Here: https://lnkd.in/g2tjuMsd

Expect meaningful conversations on achieving operational excellence, accelerating speed-to-market, and the evolving landscape of connected devices. Space is limited and attendance is by approval - register now!

Thank you to Mesh Systems, intent, and Acorn Product Development for helping champion this executive community gathering during CES!

Numeric

Numeric helps finance and accounting teams close their month-end books faster and more accurately using AI automation.

Account Executive

Gong

-First-ever Gong SDR promoted into Sales Engineering role

Associate Sales Engineer

-Q1 ‘23: 133% attainment
-Q4 ‘22: 122% attainment
-Q3 ‘22: 100% attainment
-Q2 ‘22: 108% attainment
-Q1 ‘22: 100% attainment

Senior Sales Development Representative

Gong unlocks reality to help people and companies reach their full potential. 

The patented Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform™ empowers customer-facing teams to take advantage of their most valuable assets – customer interactions, which the Gong platform automatically captures and analyzes. Gong then delivers insights at scale, empowering revenue and go-to-market teams to determine the best actions for winning outcomes. Thousands of innovative companies like Morningstar Inc., Paychex, LinkedIn, Shopify, Slack, SproutSocial, Twilio, and Zillow trust Gong to power their customer reality. Gong is a private company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information visit www.gong.io.

Sales Development Representative

Fidelity Investments

•	Developed multi-million dollar book of business, placing in top percentiles of Investment Consultants in Western US for Q1 2021 
•	Advised clients through client-outbound calls and investment consultations utilizing complex financial models and Monte Carlo simulations
•	Created budgets to improve clients’ ability to track expenses, provide insights into anticipated withdrawal rates and reliance on investment portfolios
•	Improved client-rating of local branch by through satisfaction ratings and client referrals

Investment Consultant

•	Generated leads and opportunities worth $150M
•	Engineered salesforce dashboards to track role-specific activities and opportunities to enable insights for leadership
•	Awarded Fidelity Recognition Badges for leading Sunnyvale branch in outbound client engagement
•	Promoted to Investment Consultant directly from Financial Representative position for exceptional in-role performance

Financial Representative

KPMG

•	Audited private and publicly traded clients in various industries including banking, real estate, renewable energy, professional sports teams, video streaming services, and manufacturing 
•	Analyzed clients’ financial statements to provide recommendations to audit committee and client leadership
•	Supervised team assignments & responsible for timely issuance of audit report for pre-IPO private clients
•	Onboarded and delivered ongoing learning & development for new audit associates leading to an increase in new hires’ productivity

Senior Audit Associate

•	Spearheaded research and auditing of new Revenue Recognition Standard ASC 606 for clients to ensure legally compliant and accurate financial reporting 
•	Overhauled subsidiary client’s financial reporting from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to align with parent company’s international financial reporting practices
•	Advised clients on financial reporting standards using Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Manual to ensure clients’ compliance with industry recognized & mandated regulations

Audit Associate

Ladera Oaks 

•	Launched new client-transaction tracking and management system, reducing overhead costs
•	Quantified all client transactions for Q2 and Q3 of 2017, ensuring accurate financial reporting of all sponsored events 
•	Organized financial reports for executive and board reviews including monthly, quarterly, and annual variance analyses

Financial Analyst

Loyola Marymount University

•Educated students about fundamental micro and macroeconomic principles
•Scheduled and organized weekly meetings to supplement student learning

Economics Tutor

•	Measured growth and decline across departments to determine direction of university funding
•	Mapped course outlines for academic majors for streamlined course delivery
•	Evaluated prospective academic organizations integration-potential for partnership with university and academic departments

Research Assistant

•Proofread and corrected multiple papers and presentations for German students
•Educated students about the understanding of difficult grammatical concepts, test preparation, and organizational skills 
•Supported German professors in the organization of class plans as well as class material

German Tutor

•Educated students about Econometrics, statistics and fundamental economic principles
•Utilized Stata and Minitab to supplement student learning experience

Statistics Tutor

•Collaborated with supervisor to perform historical economic bankruptcy analysis 
•Gained enhanced understanding of Economic Principles through practical application as research assistant

•Helped organize and conduct events and fundraisers for the Modern Languages Department
•Supported the Modern Languages Department through creating brochures, flyers, and management of supplies
•Monitored the use of equipment, such as computers, fax machine, and stationary materials

Academic Support Clerk

•Corrected multiple German students' papers and tests for the German Department
•Proctored several exams for German Department

German Teaching Assistant

Enrou

•	Chaired weekly financial meetings with C-Suite to analyze efficacy of marketing campaigns and strategize future planned campaigns
•	Pioneered company’s budget development, tracking ongoing cash burn rates to ensure company remained cash flow positive                                 
•	Compiled company’s financial statements, ensuring reliable financial reporting to secure new rounds of funding from current and potential investors

Accounting and Financial Planning Intern

• Assisted with bookkeeping, data entry, and data analysis
• Aided the CFO with finances & operations
• Worked with the Director of Operations to develop and implement internship projects

Business Administration Intern

Stanford University School of Medicine

• Organized and facilitated weekly intervention informational sessions
• Analyzed demographic statistics to supplement participant program success
• Recruited and conducted health examinations on multiple participants in the Vivamos Activos en Familia program

Intern

Half-Man, Half-Meme, 100% SE

Do you see random memes on your LinkedIn feed? It’s probably me!

Are you getting phone calls from numbers you don't recognize? Me again :)

I'm only half-joking but when I'm not posting memes or cold calling, I'm doing everything I can to improve my business acumen and lead a life of integrity, optimism, and service. 

I'm passionate about making a positive impact in my personal and professional communities. Ultimately, my personal mission is to help others and hopefully make some people laugh along the way.

Caspian Lewke

BIG NEWS: Numeric has raised a $51M Series B round, led by IVP with participation from Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, 8VC, and others. 🤯

Working at Numeric has been so exciting, and over the past year, we've launched AI-powered flux analysis that accountants trust, built out cash management tooling, and worked with some of the best finance teams in the industry.

This raise funds what’s next: more AI agent capabilities, building a strong finance data layer, and expanding the team. If you're interested in working on hard problems in finance infrastructure, let's talk.

#Numeric #accounting #ai

Streamlining Month-End, One Close at a Time

"Your network is your networth, which is why I love LinkedIn."
-Benjamin Franklin, probably

Networking is a word that a lot of people use, but can mean a thousand things.

If you've ever wondered the following:

"What does good networking look like?"
"How can I get referrals?"
"Why are my palms so sweaty at networking events?"

Then you've got to listen to the new episode of Cold Rush Podcast with Eric Wiegand  🦡 where we walk about NETWORKING!

Episode link in the comments below!

What have you found most helpful when networking? 🤔

#coldrush #sales #networking

So incredibly proud of my brother Damien and Nebulock, Inc.! This launch is huuuuuuuuge!

Founder & CEO @ Nebulock | MIT CSAIL | Threat Hunting | Marathoner

We’ve launched Vibe Hunting!!

Nebulock, Inc. is on a mission to democratize threat hunting to every organization, regardless of size, skillset or budget. That mission has taken a giant step in the right direction.

Vibe Hunting is our new product that allows security teams to initiate threat hunts using natural language prompts. 

You now can drive agentic workflows, enabling teams to:
-Go from threat intel report to true positive in minutes.
-Translate hypotheses into behavioral detections.
-Multi-thread your hunts (so you can keep hunting, not wait for responses).

I’m really proud of how our team of threat hunters and engineers have developed a purpose-built platform thats built by operators, for operators, enabling any analyst to become a world-class hunter, and any hunter to become a team of hunters.

Existing Nebulock customers are now able to hunt daily, and we’re excited to share this with you.

Check out our new, free Vibe Hunting Playground here: https://lnkd.in/eacvHQpe

Link to my blog in comments.

Dan Nguyen-Huu Will Lehmann Rak Garg Enrique Salem Jon Sakoda Stacey Wueste Andrew Peterson Andrew Morris Josh Kamdjou Apoorva Pandhi Mario Götze Nick Galbreath Jack Blyzinskyj Kurtis Lin Parker Gilbert Grant W.

Special thank you to our amazing advisors Kris Merritt Christopher Witter and Robert E Mealey

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