Gary Wolf, co-founder of Quantified Self, contrasts the mainstream commercial market for fitness trackers with the core self-tracking community on the a16z Podcast.
“The market is much bigger, and Fitbit alone, you know, has well over twenty million active users, so this is a lot of people.”
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Gary WolfJan 2, 2019▶ 2:20a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
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