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Lessons from 20 Years of Inventing: Adam Nelson’s Night Light Story

Adam Nelson left corporate tech with an idea for a children’s night light and no idea how hard the next 20 years would be.

In this episode of Better Together, Adam shares what it took to go from an invention to a real product: designing it, manufacturing it in China, protecting it with patents, and surviving the setbacks along the way. He talks candidly about what working across cultures taught him, why communication matters so much in global manufacturing, and how he had to pivot when COVID-19 disrupted exports.

He also gets into the mindset side of entrepreneurship, including fail fast and…

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