Creating a technology start-up is never easy. Doing so in an existing large company may be even more challenging. Serge Leef, Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA, has successfully created a start-up environment in one of the largest semiconductor EDA companies in the business. Now he hopes to do the same thing within DARPA. Listen to the podcast to hear the whole story.

John Blyler is a Design News senior editor, covering the electronics and advanced manufacturing spaces. With a BS in Engineering Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering, he has years of hardware-software-network systems experience as an editor and engineer within the advanced manufacturing, IoT and semiconductor industries. John has co-authored books related to system engineering and electronics for IEEE, Wiley, and Elsevier.