Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jawbone co-founder Hosain Rahman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's next act: A medical subscripton service called Jawbone Health that hopes to catch health problems early. In this episode: (01:46) Rahman's background in speech recognition; (04:53) The first Bluetooth Jawbone and the Jambox wireless speakers; (07:49) Releasing, refunding and relaunching the Up wearables; (11:33) "This is one of the big mistakes that we made as an organization"; (14:42) Trade secret theft and "trying to hold it together"; (20:43) Jawbone's fundraising and all-star board; (22:14) Where did the money go?; (28:04) Why didn't Jawbone sell itself?; (31:16) Management mistakes; (35:55) Positive and negative cycles in tech press; (38:05) Rahman's two biggest mistakes; (43:08) The end of Jawbone and launch of Jawbone Health; (51:52) The restructuring process; (53:01) Partnering with Salesforce, Color and others; (56:48) What does Rahman worry about and why does he get another chance?; (01:01:02) Can Silicon Valley be more mature? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.0	Hi, I'm Kaira Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode.
1:17.0	You may know me as the only person to wear AirPods in a photo shoot for Vogue,
1:21.0	but in my spare time I talk tech, and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:26.0	Today in the red chair is Hossain Rahman, the co-founder and former CEO of Jawbone,
1:31.0	which is a wearable technology pioneer that started in 1999 and actually launched
1:36.0	at our All Things Deconference back then.
1:38.0	We're going to talk about what happened there, and his new project, Hossain,
1:42.0	welcome to Recode Decode. Thanks, Kaira.
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