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Christina Mercando

Director of Product Design, Instagram · 1 appearance on the record.

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She is the co-founder and former CEO of Ringly, an Andreessen Horowitz–backed wearable technology startup that produced smart jewelry. Prior to Ringly, she served as VP of Product at Hunch, and later became Director of Product Design at Instagram.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 predictions · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Christina argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Prediction Held up
Mercando: Beacons will enable physical stores to collect e-commerce style data
“One of the things that I'm interested in in beacons is when you walk into a physical space, you can now get more data on people and more information. So if you think about e-commerce You know, there, there's so much data that we were collecting, you know, when…”
Christina Mercando Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:30 a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session

Everything Christina Mercando said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mercando: Consumers will buy wearables on seasonal fashion cycles like clothing
“I think so, yeah. And I think that they'll be buying devices, again, in the same sort of life cycle that they buy clothing. So when the new device comes out that season, they'll want to run and buy it. They'll want to buy the winter version, they'll want to bu…”
Christina Mercando Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:36 a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
Opinion
Mercando: Apple fails to manage mobile notifications effectively
“I don't think that Apple does a great job with managing them, and so we're building a platform where you can manage all those notifications, and you deem what's most important to you.”
Christina Mercando Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:17 a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
Prediction Held up
Mercando: Beacons will enable physical stores to collect e-commerce style data
“One of the things that I'm interested in in beacons is when you walk into a physical space, you can now get more data on people and more information. So if you think about e-commerce You know, there, there's so much data that we were collecting, you know, when…”
Christina Mercando Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:30 a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mercando: No single wearable device will be one-size-fits-all
“The good news is I don't think there will be a one size fits all because again, you're talking about fashion and even with watches, maybe you wear one, maybe somebody has one watch that they wear all the time, but they like to change it up.”
Christina Mercando Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:17 a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mercando: Screen-based wearables require large physical designs due to battery limits
“Even if Apple comes out with something, you know, battery technology is such that If you want to power a screen and if you want to do all these things, you need a device that's large.”
Christina Mercando Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:56 a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mercando: Ringly spent $8,000 per circuit board prototype
“So, manufacturing these things, every time we get a board built, it'll be 8000 dollars.”
Christina Mercando Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:17 a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session Jan 2, 2019 5m
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