a16z Podcast: The Wearables Session
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🗓️ 31 July 2014
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Chris Dixon. This is the A16Z podcast. I'm here with Christina Mercondo, who's the |
| 0:05.7 | co-founder and CEO Ringley, which is a wearable computing company, and we're going to talk about |
| 0:09.6 | wearable computing today. So, hi, Christina. Hey, how good. Good things. So what do you think is exciting now. |
| 0:16.7 | I mean, people are excited about the, you know, Apple, of course, is rumored to be coming out with a watch. |
| 0:23.4 | Samsung has had a watch. |
| 0:24.8 | Google had made a lot of announcements around Google now. |
| 0:28.3 | You obviously are working on jewelry. |
| 0:32.5 | You know, it seems like a very exciting time in wearables. |
| 0:34.9 | And so, you know, what are you most excited about? |
| 0:37.9 | Yeah, I mean, I'm excited to see what Apple does, as I think a lot of us are. But I think the most |
| 0:43.2 | exciting thing for me is, you know, what these devices can do in the future. And I think we're just |
| 0:47.4 | scratching the surface right now. So there's a couple spaces emerging, one in the fitness, one in |
| 0:52.9 | the health. Us, we're a little bit more focused on fashion and communication. And there's a couple spaces emerging one in the fitness one in the health us were a little bit more |
| 0:54.8 | focused on fashion and communication and there's a couple with id that i think is really really |
| 1:00.7 | interesting something that we want to explore a little bit more as well so you think it's useful to |
| 1:04.3 | kind of segment it like this like it seems like people are saying apple's going to be focusing on |
| 1:08.0 | health obviously there's you, we're investors here in |
| 1:10.9 | Jawbone. There's things like Fitbit. It sounds like you have sort of a classification that... |
| 1:17.0 | The good news is I don't think there will be a one-size-fits-all, because again, you're talking |
| 1:21.5 | about fashion. And even with watches, maybe you wear one, maybe somebody has one watch that they wear all the time, |
| 1:28.6 | but they like to change it up. They like to change, you know, fashion changes. So you think the |
| 1:33.4 | average person will have multiple wearable devices? I think so, yeah. And I think that they'll be |
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