Christina Mercando
Director of Product Design, Instagram. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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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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Everything Christina Mercando said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
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…”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Christina's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 a16zLEDGER | Director of Product Design, Instagram | 1 | 6 | 100% 1/1 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |