Logitech's CEO Bracken Darrell on going beyond hardware

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week on The Vergecast interview series, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel speaks to current CEO of Logitech Bracken Darrell. Logitech has acquired a couple of companies over the past few years, notably Blue Microphones and Ultimate Ears. Recently, Logitech acquired their first software company Streamlabs, a streaming software company used by almost half of all streamers on platforms like Twitch and YouTube. Nilay and Bracken talk about how acquiring this software company makes sense for Logitech, its own hardware that works with Streamlabs, and what it’s like making hardware for big companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Jonathan from The VredChast.
0:01.2	On this week's interview episode, we have Bracken Daryl,
0:03.9	the CEO of Logitech.
0:06.0	I'm really interested in talking to the people
0:08.1	who run companies that are important,
0:09.8	but we don't think about Logitech.
0:10.9	It's absolutely one of those companies.
0:12.3	They make so many peripherals that we all depend on.
0:15.0	They own blue microphones, they own ultimate ears,
0:17.9	and make the boom speakers, and make great headphones.
0:19.8	They just bought a company called Stream Labs,
0:22.2	which is basically the software product
0:24.6	that half of the world's Twitch streamers use
0:27.0	to get on Twitch and other services.
0:28.7	This company owns a substantial chunk
0:30.9	of our user experience.
0:32.1	They've been growing, they're doing really well.
0:33.9	Bracken I talked about how he structures the company,
0:36.1	how he thinks about acquisitions.
0:37.5	We talked about how he thinks of his divisions as startups,
0:41.0	and what the future is for a company
0:43.0	that has to connect to platforms.
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