This Stanford Grad Built a Machine That Makes Real Sunlight | BORN TO●BUILD | Episode 03

Harrison Lin, a Stanford grad, built a machine that makes real sunlight: 60,000 lumens, about a hundred light bulbs, from a box smaller than a sheet of paper. Light therapy lamps have been around for decades, and most end up in a drawer. Harrison wants the opposite: light you don't have to think about. You live your life, have your coffee and get the benefits of light. In this conversation, Harrison and I talk about why a machine like this is only possible now, how one cold email to Bryan Johnson turned into a parking-lot handover in LA, why he believes light is as fundamental to health as sleep or food, and why he picked consumer hardware when investors kept telling him it's a graveyard. I find the most exceptional young builders before anyone knows them. BORN TO●BUILD: new founders every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one. 0:00 Teaser 0:42 Harrison Lin, Rhythm 1:09 Why Now 3:10 60,000 Lumens in a Box 4:31 You Have to Feel It 6:04 Light as the Next Dimension of Health 7:23 Bryan Johnson and the Parking Lot 10:08 What Bryan Knows About Light 10:54 Five to Ten Years Out 12:36 Why Consumer Hardware