Light, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 36Joe Hollier 8Kai Tang 5John Zimmer 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Light comes up
Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft
- ▶ 39:59 Guy Raz And I know many years ago, John, you invested in the light phone, that phone, and I have one.
- ▶ 41:37 John Zimmer Uh, and I, I tether from the Light Phone to the iPhone if there's an app, uh, or a function that I need.
When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light
- ▶ 1:08 Guy Raz They called it the light phone, and it has calling and texting, but it also lets you do things like play music or podcasts and get directions. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31 Guy Raz The company's tagline is a phone for humans.
- ▶ 11:01 Guy Raz So it's May of 2015, and Joe and Kai's Light Phone has generated a lot of interest and backing on Kickstarter. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:35 Guy Raz And, and so, when you finally delivered these phones, I mean, there was mixed reaction to them, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:37 Kai Tang Well, I think we learned so much from the first light phone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:02 Joe Hollier Um, I think anyone that's been interested in investing in the Light Phone does feel morally there's something really beautiful going on with Light Phone and that we have this sort of honest and transparent business model that's so kind of… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:11 Guy Raz When we come back after a short break, more from Joe and Kai about building their minimalist smartphone, the light phone.
- ▶ 21:41 Guy Raz They think that we need to redefine our relationships to our smartphones, which is why they built a minimalist version of a smartphone called the light phone. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:51 Guy Raz Tell me where, where the company is now. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:19 Kai Tang So all the sales are water mouth and Playphone.
- ▶ 25:09 Guy Raz I mean, I know that there was like a, there's a school in Massachusetts, I think, that, that banned phones, and then they basically said, okay, everyone can have a light phone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:24 Kai Tang If we do have a camera in Light Phone, it will be a tool that allows you to capture those moments, but we will not allow sharing or commenting or liking to be part of that experience.
- ▶ 28:20 Guy Raz How many people work for the company now? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:50 Joe Hollier Where we made a fake company called the Alliance of Big Tech, uh, and we used that to kind of say, do not buy the light phone for all of these reasons, uh, and we sent about 700 shirts to some of our earliest users, a kind of great… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:33 Guy Raz That's Kai Tang and Joe Hollier, co-founders of the company Light and creators of the Light Phone.
- ▶ 31:33 Guy Raz That's Kai Tang and Joe Hollier, co-founders of the company Light and creators of the Light Phone.