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▶ 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.

▶ 1:01:48 Guy Raz So we interviewed James Park, who created Fitbit, and Fitbit, the genius of Fitbit was it was like a gamified exercise, right? 2 times in the scene

▶ 39:08 Guy Raz And people, people were using Fitbits already, and that was out there, but now you could just put the app on the phone, and it could more or less do a version of the same thing. 2 times in the scene

▶ 5:10 Guy Raz How did that, I mean, you're talking about community, you're talking about fitness, Fitbits and stuff start to come out around then.

▶ 43:48 Guy Raz Right, because hardware, we, we, we had the same conversation with James Park at Fitbit.
▶ 43:51 Guy Raz He raised 400,000 dollars thinking that that would make Fitbit only to realize that 2 times in the scene

▶ 56:21 Guy Raz So we interviewed James Park, who created Fitbit, and Fitbit, the genius of Fitbit was it was like a gamified exercise, right? 2 times in the scene

▶ 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.
▶ 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.
▶ 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

▶ 0:07 Guy Raz On top of the amazing guests I'll be speaking to on the main stage, we'll have breakout sessions throughout the summit with speakers like Katia Beecham of Birchbox, James Park and Eric Friedman of Fitbit, James Reinhardt of ThredUp, Sadie…

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