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Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries: You Can't Outsource Knowledge (Podcast) In our second podcast, Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries explains why you need to know your business inside and out.

By Linda Lacina

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Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries

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Listen to Ready For Anything podcast Episode 2, with Linda Lacina and Limor Fried with the audio player below.

As a child, Limor Fried was known to take apart VCRs and once modified a Radio Shack tone-dialer. This sort of curiosity helped her found of Adafruit Industries, a factory manufacturing DIY open source electronic hardware kits in New York City. Today, she and her team work alongside machines like pick-and-places and reflow ovens, not outsourcing the company's top asset: knowledge. "When something's not working, I know instantly, not two or three weeks later. Being next to the machines, I can revise and adapt quickly."

Adafruit's customers are encouraged to 'hack' the designs in the kits they buy, tweaking the final product. Listen to this chat with Fried from the factory floor as she explains how her approach demystifies hardware through education and makes certain types of engineering more accessible to creatives of any stripe. She'll also explain why she doesn't have a cell phone -- and how it keeps her focused.

Related: Limor Fried: Pink Hair, Managing Growth and Keeping It Real

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Linda Lacina

Entrepreneur Staff

Linda Lacina is the former managing editor at Entrepreneur.com. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, Dow Jones MarketWatch and Family Circle. Email her at llacina@entrepreneur.com. Follow her at @lindalacina on Twitter. 

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