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Tang: Light is break-even from organic website sales without paid advertising
“We are break even at the moment with the sales from our website with the support from our users, we don't do advertisement.”
Hollier: Smartphone ubiquity made people forget their agency to disconnect
“And I think the smartphones became so ubiquitous that we almost forgot
We have the agency to actually sign off from time to time.”
Hollier: Adopting a minimalist phone is like buying a gym membership
“I mean, aside from any technical challenges, it's quite the ask for the end user, so I think what we saw a lot of was almost like a gym membership, where someone wants to go light, but is struggling to actually integrate that kind of experience into their day-…”
Tang: 75% to 80% of Light Phone customers are Gen Z
“It turns out, like, 75, 80% of our customers are Gen Z, a younger generation who are really brave to say no, and willing to give it a try.”
Tang: Mobile phones should be used and put away like hammers
“We should have tools that intentionally design, just like hammer or screwdriver. You use it You put it back, and you don't think about your hammer, 24 seven. You don't hold your screwdriver and swipe your screwdriver for five hours a day, right?”
Tang: Light needed $2M beyond its Kickstarter to manufacture first phones
“I think we needed two million more just to actually go through the process. So we raised money from the mission aligned investors along the way to help us deliver.”
Hollier: Light is in talks with dozens of schools regarding smartphone bans
“We've had dozens of schools in conversation since about promoting a similar kind of policy or at least trying to make it more accessible, and actually the Buxton School was kind of an amazing case study for us.”