Inside Track with Ryan Pratt, Founder and CEO, Guerrilla RF (.PDF Download)

Aug. 10, 2015

CD: What opportunities inspired you to create a MMIC startup at this time?

RP: I saw an industry preoccupied with the needs of smartphones. This is understandable due to the unprecedented size of the smartphone IC market. But there is also an enormous opportunity to innovate in the high-performance space aimed at the infrastructure markets. Knowing our industry as I do, I see a lot of stale MMIC products that are ripe for disruption...

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