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Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

058: Smart Luggage for Smart People - Alejo Verlini of BlueSmart (before WeWork 📈 went ‘WeCrashed‘ 📉)

Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

Careers, Business:careers, Business

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Alejo Verlini is the Co-founder and CPO at Bluesmart, which is based in Hong Kong. He is an experienced Chief Product Officer with a strong history of working in the consumer electronics industry. He is very skilled in Innovation Management, User Experience, Branding & Identity, Design Management, and User Interface Design. He has been in Bluesmart since 2013 and he has been a part of a team that shares a passion for travel, technology, and design. The concept of Bluesmart suitcase started with... *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, & Resources Mentioned on this episode visit here: Alejo Verlini Interview. ***

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0:00.0

We had everyone sending us a picture saying, hey guys, the sign bulb is going to disurge

0:06.5

her with the blue smart. That's like the most expensive knee in the world.

0:16.0

It was a few days later here, right to the Olympics, with the blue smart, we had blue bars,

0:19.6

so everybody was seeing the blue smart.

0:21.3

The director of marketing online is a fan of Tony Hawk and one day a friend of him said,

0:28.0

hey look what Tony Hawk just posted and there was an Instagram picture of two suitcases.

0:35.6

I know a black suitcase, I don't know which one and I have blue smart.

0:42.9

My name is Alejo, I'm an industrial designer, that's my background and we started

0:46.8

Blue Smart which was the worst first market suitcase. We started three and a half years ago,

0:52.2

it was just three guys with an idea and today we've launched two products already in the market

0:57.1

and we just launched a month and a half ago or four new products which is our second line.

1:01.6

Team is now 40 people in three offices in New York, Buenos Aires and Hong Kong.

1:07.0

We have around 40,000 units in 114 countries already distributed and we can't wait to

1:13.7

show how our new products on the streets soon. Why don't you describe to us what is a smart

1:19.0

suitcase? Sure, so as smart suitcase basically is a suitcase that can connect your phone by

1:24.4

a virtue of connecting your phone, enables different sets of features and benefits to the guy

1:28.5

who's using it basically which is you know, distance alerts if you move away, you can lock it and

1:33.2

lock it from your phone, you can set it up to lock it itself when you move away so you don't have

1:37.8

to be thinking of you know, locking it down and locking it when you move. It has a built-in GPS

1:42.5

and with a 3G module so you know that you'll never lose your suitcase basically because you can

1:47.2

track it anywhere in the world. It has weight sensors so before you leave your home you know,

1:52.3

the exact weight of your suitcase on your phone and the app connects to your flight at

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