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Q: "What is the most promising startup idea you’ve heard that didn’t succeed?" PG: "Maybe Pebble. It could have been the next Apple. But hardware startups are
by spencerwgreene 7y ago
Q: "What is the most promising startup idea you’ve heard that didn’t succeed?"
PG: "Maybe Pebble. It could have been the next Apple. But hardware startups are a bitch. External factors can kill you in a way that doesn’t happen with software, and you can’t do things as gradually as you can with software."
This answer stood out to me the most since many of the other questions are answered somewhat in his essays already.
- asadlionpk 7y agoI loved my Pebble. I wore the classic one till it broke. I wish they had stayed around.
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- iamwil 7y agoWhenever I ask different ex-Pebblers about what killed the company, their perspective is always relative to their area of concern.
- thimkerbell 7y agoFor fellow ignorami,Pebble was a wristwatch; see https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/what-working-on-pebble-taught-me-about-building-hardware/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/what-working-on-pebble-tau...