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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q Wow. How did you even get it to that point? Like, cause you guys are both software engineers. How did you develop a physical product that even, even a sort of, such a crude prototype could track movement? Did you have other people help you do that?
A You know, that was our big task was to find the right people who could help us. So, um, I knew the founder of a really great industrial design firm in San Francisco called New Deal Design. Um, his name's Gadi Amit. And then on the algorithm side, because it was going to take a lot of sophisticated algorithms to translate this motion data to actual data that users would be able to understand, I ended up asking my best friend from college, Ed, Cause he was in grad school at Harvard at the time. And he said, wait, I think I might know somebody. And it ended up being his teaching fellow. His, his name was Shelton. And we, we talked and was like, wow, uh, this guy's super smart. We need to get him working on algorithms.
AI assessment note: “that was our big task was to find the right people who could help us.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q All right. So, so, so 2008, you've got the name Fitbit. You go to TechCrunch to present to kind of like, you know, unveil this product. And what, what was the product that you were offering? We said, all right, we've got to sync all the Fitbit, and it does this. What did you, what did you say it did at that point?
A So our pitch to the crowd at TechCrunch, and ultimately to our consumers, was that it was a product that would track your steps, distance, calories, and how much you slept, and would answer some basic questions about your health. Was I active enough today? Did I get enough sleep? What do I need to do to lose weight, et cetera? And one of the more important aspects was this idea of a community as well. Join other people who own Fitbits, your friends and family, and you could compete with each other. And it was all wireless. Like you didn't really have to do anything. All you'd have to do is wear this device. Don't even think about it. And all this magic would happen. So that was the promise of Fitbit at the time.
AI assessment note: “it was a product that would track your steps, distance, calories, and how much you slept”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q know, the Apple Watch is just crammed with a bunch of stuff, or smartwatches are crammed with a bunch of stuff, and what we're doing is something simpler. Was that what you were saying publicly? Because, I don't know, did you, you felt like you should be saying that? Or did you really think that was true? That the, that the Apple Watch wouldn't actually have much of an impact?
A You know, we were definitely concerned with Apple. I mean, this was the preeminent technology and especially hardware company at the time with an amazing brand. We had faced off Philips and Nike and Jawbone, which were, you know, in their rights, very big competitors, especially Nike. We did feel very strongly that our product had very clear advantages. It was a simpler product. Um, if you looked at the Apple Watch that was announced at that time, I think everyone will admit, maybe even Apple, that it was a product that didn't quite know what it was supposed to be used for. So, with the launch of the first Apple Watch, I don't really think that that had an actual impact on the trajectory of the business. Um, it wasn't the product that it would later, later become, and the industry wasn't where it would eventually evolve either.
AI assessment note: “We did feel very strongly that our product had very clear advantages.”
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D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.00
Q There was a lot of excitement there, but I'm wondering, like, were you nervous to do these presentations? Did you have to, like, prepare, like, crazy, or, or did you just find your ability to, like, be this person you had to be on stage when you got up there?
A Yeah, I think, um, there was no other choice, so it was just something we had to do, and, you know, I think, are you better at it than Eric, or is Eric better at it than you? I think we're both good in our, in our different ways. It just fell upon me. I don't even know how we decide, you know, those things, but actually what was running through our minds was not what we were going to say and how we're going to say it, but whether the demo would actually work on stage. Because again, it was, it was a little sketchy. It was still very early. It was, it was still in the, in the wooden box.
AI assessment note: “what was running through our minds was not what we were going to say”
