How We Designed A $1M/Month Portable Monitor For Laptops
May 16th, 2020
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?
My name is Jack Yao, our company is Mobile Pixels Inc. We started the company when I was a graduate student at MIT. During an internship at Amazon, I urgently felt the need of using a portable monitor as I was working in a co-working space. The idea came to when I was doing some programming work, I wished that I could have had a monitor that can be expanded from the back of the main laptop display.
When I return to school the following semester, my roommate Stephen and I started to prototype this idea. With funding from Northeastern University and MIT, we launched a Kickstarter/IndieGoGo campaign which raised 1.5MM in presales.
Our product is the Duex monitor, we did 4.3MM in sales in 2019, and are on track to do $12MM for 2020.
