Before becoming an investor, Rouz Jazayeri worked as a chip design engineer on Intel's first 45nm processor, helped build Intel's relationship with Apple during the shift to Intel-based Macs, and worked on the MacBook Air model that first passed 12 hours of battery life, and at Kleiner Perkins he built the firm's business development practice, connecting portfolio companies like Ring, LuxVue, DJI, and Quantumscape with major corporate partners. His writing focuses specifically on edge AI and robotics, and he traces his interest in scrappy, hands-on founders back to a childhood shoe-shining story, a theme that also shows up in how Purdue describes the kinds of founders Catapult backs.