August CEO Jason Johnson on opening the smart home of the future

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🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel chats with August CEO Jason Johnson about smart locks and the challenges of integrating various technologies within a smart home. They discuss whether every company needs to be a data collection company, and why it's so difficult to be a hardware company in tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired Goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:19.8	Hey everybody, it's Jeff from The Verge House.
0:24.0	On this week's interview episode, we have Jason Johnson.
0:27.0	He's a CEO of August.
0:28.8	We caught up last week at CES.
0:31.1	August was there.
0:32.4	Last year, August, which was an independent hardware startup that I met about six years ago,
0:37.4	last year they sold to a huge Swedish lock company called Assa Abloy.
0:41.0	They make millions of locks, basically.
0:43.4	The brand you're probably most familiar with is Yale.
0:45.4	But Jason was here at CES.
0:46.5	They announced a new Yale lock.
0:48.2	They announced a new Super high-end luxury lock from another Assa Abloy brand called MTEC.
0:52.7	August is basically becoming the software platform for a huge lock company.
0:56.4	They integrate with Google Assistant, they integrate with Amazon Alexa, they integrate
0:59.7	with Apple's HomeKit.
1:01.1	And we talked really about the future of the smart home, what it means to work with all
1:04.8	three platforms at once, how hard it is to work with the platforms are architected very
1:08.6	differently, and the future of how you're going to get in and out of your house.
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