Aura
company on 9 shows · 12 statements across 7 episodes · said 27 times in 10 episodes since 2018
the Startup Ideas Podcast 17 
American Optimist 3 
Top Founders 2 
20VC 2 
the Pitch 1 
My First Million 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
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Sam Lessin: Commercial biological age tests are unreliable 'bullshit'
“Listen, this stuff is all bullshit. I got Aura saying I'm seven years younger. I got Dexa saying I'm, like,”
Amazon Announces Alexa Integration With Oura Ring
“Yesterday, we announced an integration with Aura for wellness”
Meng To: Aura and Dreamcut each have over 150,000 lines of code
“As someone who is Vibe coding a bunch of products such as Aura, but also a Dreamcut, both of them have over a 150,000 lines of code.”
Meng To: No other AI design tool offers real-time live previews
“And also I already had like the life The live preview as you generate. So nobody else has that, by the way. When you're generating, it's going to live preview everything you're doing. You don't have to wait like five minutes for something to show up.”
Meng To: Aura hit 500 daily signups and $3K MRR organically
“In fact, we already, we're doing 500 users a day right now. 500 users are signing up to this platform every single day, and we're, you know, we just started, obviously but we're making something like 3000 MR at the moment, and we're growing a lot, as you can s…”
Meng To: OpenAI's o3 is best for image-to-HTML conversion
“In fact, I do use O three, which is one of the best models for taking the image, a screenshot of your favorite website or your own design Figma, and then turn that to HTML and then bring that to lovable to V zero or to aura, whichever you want.”
Aura Exceeded Fortune 100 Client's Annual Partner Enrollment Goal in One Day
“Our Fortune 100 partner has already told us we exceeded their prior partners enrollment annual goal in one day”
Willock: Aura data captures employee intent to spend, save, and invest
“If you think about Pinterest as this data set of consumer intent, you can think about Aura's data as a set of information on employee intent to save, spend, and invest their paycheck.”
Oura's core challenge is being a vitamin, not a painkiller, says Sanchez
“One, I think the hardest problem that Aura's had is that it's a little bit of a vitamin and not a painkiller per se, because it's preventive health.”
Oura's smart ring competitors failed by going direct-to-consumer, says Sanchez
“There were about 30 other companies that tried doing something similar, or as the only survivor, because all of them tried to go direct to consumer.”
Sam Lessin claims smart ring maker Oura is not a good company
“But Aura's, like, not a good company. It's a great product, right?”
Jaswa: Privacy and security problems will grow 100x in a decade
“The premise behind Aura is that over the last 20 years, all of our digital lives have gotten more and more complicated and interesting, and yet every single person knows that security and privacy online are worse than they've ever been. And if you fast forward…”