# Sam D’Amico

> Sam D’Amico is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Impulse, which builds battery-integrated appliances and the Impulse Core platform for appliance manufacturers. A Stanford electrical-engineering graduate and former Google, Oculus and Meta hardware engineer, he applies experience in batteries, sensing and consumer electronics to induction cooking and distributed energy storage.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Impulse
- **Organizations:** Impulse, Google, Oculus, Meta, Stanford Solar Car Project, Indicator Fund
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree, electrical engineering, Stanford University, Master of Science, electrical engineering, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Impulse and brought its battery-integrated induction cooktop to customer shipments in 2025., Worked on consumer hardware including Google Glass, Oculus and the Quest Pro controller., Impulse was a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 Innovation by Design Awards, On the Rise category.

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Met Impulse’s future CTO while participating on different university solar-car racing teams.
- **2012** — Completed undergraduate studies at Stanford.
- **2013** — Completed a master’s degree at Stanford.
- **Before 2021** — Worked on Google Glass, early Oculus, further Google projects and the Quest Pro controller at Facebook/Meta.
- **2021** — Started Impulse in the summer.
- **2024** — Impulse opened cooktop preorders in January.
- **2025** — Impulse announced UL 858 listing in June and customer shipments in August.
- **2026** — Impulse expanded appliance partnerships and announced a European manufacturing partnership with BS Service Group.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Impulse and brought its battery-integrated induction cooktop to customer shipments in 2025.
- Worked on consumer hardware including Google Glass, Oculus and the Quest Pro controller.
- Impulse was a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 Innovation by Design Awards, On the Rise category.
- Led Impulse as it expanded into a technology platform for partner appliance brands.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Impulse published a one-year cooktop reliability report describing hardware, firmware and manufacturing fixes.
- **2026-04** — Impulse announced the Eximius cooktop partnership with BS Service Group, with manufacturing under Uniqa in Fabriano, Italy.
- **2026-02** — Impulse published an announcement about its Powered by Impulse program and Thor Kitchen range partnership.

## Links

- Website: https://sdami.co/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/s-damico
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sdamico
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/srdamico
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/sdamico

---

Profile page: https://yespress.io/sam-damico
Published by YesPress — https://yespress.io
Last updated: 2026-10-16