Fitbit, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Fitbit comes up
20VC: Maximising Engagement and Retention on Mobile & Why There Should Always Be Availability To A Free Product with Sean Brecker, CEO @ Headspace
- ▶ 6:15 Sean Brecker And when I first started doing it, I remember my mother-in-law had given me a Fitbit as a Christmas present, and the Fitbit was telling me that I was on average sleeping three hours and 45 minutes per night. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Hardware Is Actually Software Wrapped In Plastic & "Of Course Hardware Is Hard, Everything Is Hard" with Ben Einstein, Founder & General Partner @ Bolt VC
- ▶ 11:01 Harry Stebbings Is Fitbit, we could consider Fitbit, but software provided as well, isn't it? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:35 Harry Stebbings And we spoke there about consumer businesses, and we've spoken today about Fitbit and the kind of consumer hardware space.
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 18:42 Justin Kan People will like text me their screenshots of their, you know, Strava app or their Fitbit, say how much they worked out.
20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- ▶ 4:28 Josh Udashkin We had these power SKUs, uh, that really were selling 70%, uh, of the assortment, so we would make a couple of products, they would turn into bestsellers, and the bestsellers were really carrying the entire business, and then, you know,…
- ▶ 16:17 Josh Udashkin Information in our case about travel or fitness, if you're Fitbit or, you know, music recommendations, if you're Sonos, you really have this great opportunity to continue to engage long after the purchase, which is something that really… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 26:04 Wesley Chan You know, with Fitbit, when I didn't bet on Fitbit, everybody else was looking at connected devices or looking at hardware and going, you can't make money on hardware. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 3:56 Charles Hudson and then I think like many of the micro VC firms of that vintage, SoftTech's had a tremendous amount of success backing companies like Shippo and Fitbit and Poshmark and Postmates, and
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 1:04 Harry Stebbings So let's go with Twitch, Fitbit, Shopify, Mint, Brightroll, Dropcam.
- ▶ 26:55 Aydin Senkut You know, James Park at Fitbit, who's, I think, one of the most resilient CEOs that I know, and then Toby Lutke at Shopify, and Peter Van Der Doze at Adyen.