Fitbit, every mention
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WHOOP: Will Ahmed
- ▶ 2:03 Guy Raz Now, at the time, Fitbit was already out there, but Will wanted something more sophisticated.
- ▶ 12:16 Guy Raz Um, and just, just as to put this into context, at this point in history, there is a product called the Fitbit, which is out there, and it's a fitness tracker.
- ▶ 18:34 Guy Raz Right, I mean, this is 2012, and you already have the Fitbit, you've got Jawbone, which would become one of the biggest, kind of, eventually, it was, it raised nine hundred million dollars over time.
- ▶ 32:27 Guy Raz Well, while, I mean, again, you're doing this very patiently, very methodically, and meantime, Fitbit is exploding, even though it's doing a somewhat different thing, but, you know, in the minds of most consumers, they were probably…
- ▶ 46:57 Guy Raz So compared to like a Fitbit, which is like a hundred or 150, that was a lot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:07 Guy Raz They were talking about these other companies you mentioned, the Apples and Samsung, Fitbits and so on.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
Noom: Saeju Jeong
Casper: Philip Krim
- ▶ 21:31 Philip Krim Um, this was also when Jawbones and Fitbits were really first coming into the market, so we started talking about what was it that, that led the mattress industry to exist the way it existed today, and it was also just based around, like,…
How I Built Resilience: Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey of Strava
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
Fitbit: James Park
- ▶ 1:41 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how the Nintendo Wii inspired James Park to build a device and then a company that would have a huge and lasting influence on the health and fitness industry, Fitbit. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:22 Guy Raz The guy that you would eventually launch Fitbit with.
- ▶ 19:20 James Park And that was really the genesis of, of Fitbit.
- ▶ 21:16 Guy Raz Was it, did it look like a Fitbit? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:59 Guy Raz And did you know right away that this was going to be, I mean, now their Fitbits are watches mainly, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:33 Guy Raz So, it's 2008, and James and his co-founder Eric Friedman show off their Fitbit prototype at TechCrunch, and it makes a huge splash.
- ▶ 37:06 James Park I think we trust in our ability to, you know, help each other out, and there were periods when either of us would be pretty down on the company and the product, and luckily we weren't down both at the same time, uh, and, and that's why it…
- ▶ 42:39 Guy Raz It's so crazy to think about now, but I think early on, right, with, with the Fitbit, the idea was to be part of a bigger community, so, like, the data from your activity would be available. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:01 Guy Raz So Fitbit for the first couple of years was a still a clip, mainly a clip. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:51 Guy Raz That year, 2015, Apple, the Apple Watch is released, and they stop selling Fitbit in their stores. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:55 Guy Raz It's crazy talking about a legacy product for your company, which is only 10 years old, um, or 12 years old, but, but, you know, the, you can argue that the Fitbit product is your legacy product, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:16 Guy Raz That's James Park, co-founder of Fitbit. 2 times in the scene
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- ▶ 1:00:30 Casey Neistat And they brought me in, they had me sign an NDA, and they showed me this new product, which is essentially like a Nike-branded Fitbit. 2 times in the scene
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban
- ▶ 24:36 Mark Cuban You know, we had one on the end of the season where it was called Pavlok, I think, where they had a, um, Fitbit looking device that shocked you, and the whole idea was, um, aversion therapy, so that if you don't want to smoke, you shock…