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Hosain Rahman

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  1. “It was good looking. So you jump to that because Yeah, it sort of flatlined, right? And so for the next stage of growth, we went and created this new category for other speakers. And it's fun for us to see what's happened to that with all the innovation in the home. You got products like Google Home, Amazon Echo, with Alexa. It sort of evolved into media device meets voice.”

    2018-09-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “And everyone thought we were crazy to do this very high quality portable mobile speaker that was wireless for your phone. But the thought was you've got all this rich media in that device. How do you unlock it without having to dock it? Take it with you everywhere and turn the speaker into a computer. And those are sort of the first Smart Wire speaker. So that debuted in 2010 and people loved it. It went crazy. And now I think the wireless speaker market of all speakers is like, you know, in the 99%. So in some ways that product was kind of the godfather to everything that you see from Alexa or the Echo, et cetera.”

    2018-09-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “I mean, that's the thing that happens in hardware you end up establishing a category, either the incumbents or a lot of manufacturers in China, everyone sees that there's demand and they all rush to sort of do a copycat. So we were effectively the first smart headset. And then another thing happened, which is the market moved from one year to two years as your iPhone. Actually, started to develop a bunch of media capability and all your music was there, your video, people wanted two years. And that was sort of where you got companies like Beats and all that. And what we did at that same time is we invented the sort of first wireless speakers. For your mobile phone devices, and that works. The jam box. And that was in 2010. So when we came out with the jambox, the market for wireless speakers in the overall speaker market was 0%.”

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  4. “And it was a wild ride. We were trying to hold on for dear life. And after that, we continued to scale that and make it smaller. And then when the iPhone launched in 2007, we were one of the third-party headsets that Apple sold alongside it in their stores, had great success from that. Also, there was all this hands-free legislation that came out that really drove that business. And then in the fall of 2008, when you had the big economic collapse, we were caught up alongside that where, you know, a bunch of orders we had from the channels and whatnot kind of disappeared.”

    2018-09-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Was as big as it needed to be to satisfy the state of the computing power, right? Sort of the chip size, battery, all that. So we launched that and it took off. We went from zero to $100 million run rate of revenue in the first year.”

    2018-09-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I think it was like $150. Yeah. And so it was pre Bluetooth. So in 2005, we went down to four people and we focused on making that technology and that product Bluetooth. And so call it in the end of 2006, we launched the first Bluetooth jawbone, and you and Walt talked about it, and that one really took off. And this was a”

    2018-09-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Long wire that clips on your belt, and then there was a box there with a bunch of processing and then it connected to your phone.”

    2018-09-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Onto the body. And this was kind of pre Bluetooth, right? And so it was a bit of a clergy. Physical implementation, but the technology performance”

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  9. “The noise canceling stuff, we refine that. And then kind of in 2002, we decided to build our own consumer product utilizing the technology, and we decided to do that in a headset. And so that was kind of the inception, if you will, of the first sort of smart headset.”

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  10. “Seven. Seven, right? Okay, yeah. Anyway, so this was very early. People actually still talked a lot on their phones. And so mobile audio quality mattered a lot. And so we shifted from trying to make speech recognition work to just kind of building this fundamental layer for audio quality. That was now sort of called circa 2000, 2001. Things were tough in the technology market because you'd had the sort of first internet crash. We ended up teaming up with DARPA to refine the science and the technology behind what we were doing.”

    2018-09-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “It was effectively like Siri on top of a palm device or a Nokia phone. We were really fascinated by mobile. We thought, wow, wouldn't it be neat if you could interact using your voice? It's funny now, Flash Forward 18, 20 years later, voices finally a thing and people are doing that. So we thought about this back in the kind of late 90s. And as we started to build that, we realized that there were so many limitations around what you could do with speech recognition. And we thought that we ended up inventing this noise cancellation technology, which removed all the background noise from a mobile phone call. And the idea was to improve the signal so that it would make speech recognition work. And when we invented that, it turned out that was the biggest.”

    2018-09-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “Yeah, so I was at Stanford mid-90s and it was an incredible time, right? Larry and Sergei were there. Formation of Google before I got there, David and Jerry had started Yahoo. So it was this incredible explosion of creativity. Everybody was encouraged in the engineering school to go try their ideas. And so out of that environment, we came out in sort of 1999, and the original vision for the company was we were trying to build a speech recognition overlay on top of mobile devices. And as we started to build that, we realized so much of what we wanted to do.”

    2018-09-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT