#102🚀 - Travel Journal
Building the Future of Power Electronics
👋 Hello, friends! Dr. Molina here 👨🔧
Even if you haven't noticed, I've been three weeks without sharing a newsletter, and I wanted to drop by here to catch you up a bit.
Since I arrived in California, I've had to create a new family home, with a one-year-old girl running around and a dog dealing with jet lag. Thanks to my wife, who turned this apartment into a home in less than a month.
The first month we spent in the suburbs was fun. It was a very quiet and friendly place, very family-oriented. We searched for a house in the surrounding areas, also in Mountain View and Palo Alto. We were about to take a house in "La Rinconada," but that was when we started coming to the city of San Francisco.
Cities have all the problems of cities, but if you've spent most of your life in a city like Madrid, with over 5 million people around, you're a city person. We immediately felt the call of the city, which was actually the original plan, and we decided to change plans and move to the city. The search for a house was not easy because, in general, there are very few houses available for rent. But after several weeks, we got an apartment overlooking the Golden Gate, allowing me to immerse myself in the bay fog during sunrise. I love watching the fog with a warm coffee.
During these weeks, we have transitioned from an empty apartment to a home, but what excites me the most is the sample laboratory I am setting up. For now, I am using the same office in San Francisco, but my plans are to create a larger one closer to our clients in the southern bay.
Most of these three weeks, I have been working on a project that will change the world of magnetics and visiting our clients, who have grown considerably since I arrived. In these two months, I have visited more than 20 new clients, and that's why I had to hire Donna, my first local business salesperson, from San Jose with over 27 years in the electronics industry.
But if I have to tell you something that really impressed me, it's the technologies I've seen in my new clients and the courage of the companies in the valley. I've entered immense laboratories where they are creating the future without fear of failure. One of the companies that impressed me the most was LTA Research, building an impressive spacecraft.
When you enter their hangar, you can suddenly feel the force of Silicon Valley. This only happens here.
A few days ago, I was invited to an investors and founders dinner, and I met Daniel (I keep his identity private for privacy), an investor and entrepreneur who said:
"When I'm in SF, I feel like I'm in a time machine."
And it's true because on the streets of SF, you can see autonomous cars without drivers, and you never get used to it. I'm amazed every time I see one.
During the previous 100 editions, the mission of this newsletter was to talk only about magnetics. However, in parallel, we created the Frenetic Newsletter, where Sotiris and Pablo are writing great newsletters about magnetics every week. As is often the case in my position, my job is to be the first to propose something, make mistakes, and when it works, those who have real talent come in and surpass me. I think they do much better than me, so I'll let them lead the more technical newsletters, and I'll continue, as always, broadcasting our game.
Thanks for reading.