Headspace

“We don't really view other meditation apps as competition. At the end of the day, what we are doing is we're trying to compete for people's time. The time is, you know, the most precious resource that we all have, especially in today's busy world. And what we'…”

“At the time the company was about 15 people and primarily designers and content creators.”

“I think through the whole process, we met something like 63 different investors.”

“Sean was also instrumental in raising the first institutional round of funding for Headspace from some incredible names like Jim Breyer, LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner, Michael Linton's Sony CEO. Hey, they're so cool. They even have movie stars Jared Leto and one of m…”

“As it continues to expand the product, which has been downloaded a whopping eight million times now.”

“The vast majority of our users are new to meditation. They have never meditated before.”

“Our team meets at 10 a.m. And three p.m. Every day, and it's optional, but you know, a number of folks show up and do the meditation during one of those two sessions.”

“There have been today over 2000 studies by researchers, and these are, you know, very serious studies, peer reviewed on the benefits of meditation”

“We have seen, you know, migration of people from aspirin into vitamin, which is great news for us.”

“We position this practice in a very modern, you know, secular way. And we do that by design because we believe that you know, that is the key to reaching the masses and sort of lowering the barrier to entry.”

“When Apple released the Apple watch, they came to us and asked us if we would consider putting our SOS meditations, you know, these short form two minute meditations for when you've, you're having some kind of crisis and just really need to sort of very quickl…”

“I think the interesting thing is almost universally across our cap table, our investors are big fans of the product and have had, you know, there's been a sort of profound impact on their lives that, that, that has occurred because of their use of the product.…”

“When he's actually recording the pack, it's all unscripted.”

“Calm or Headspace of the world, which makes mental wellness, health, they're not great businesses.”