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James Park

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2020-04-27
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2020-04-27
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  1. “So, on top of sheltering in place and running his company remotely, James had to move out of his apartment in the middle of the night and then set up the microphone and gear we sent him for this interview. He started to tell us about his parents who emigrated from Korea when James was four. Back in Korea his dad had been an electrical engineer and his mom was a nurse, but as with many immigrants, they had a hard time getting those same jobs in the US, so instead, his parents became small business owners.”

    2020-04-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Fitbit: James Park · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “I know amazing timing. Yeah, I woke up at 1 a.m. and I just woke up to the sound of water gushing everywhere. It was coming through the ceiling. It was a massive flood.”

    2020-04-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Fitbit: James Park · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “In a temporary Airbnb because the place that I typically live in has been flooded out by a malfunctioning washing machine. I woke up at 1 a.m.”

    2020-04-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Fitbit: James Park · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “So it's taken me a few weeks to get motivated about exercise. This whole pandemic thing just had me in a state of anxiety and it messed with my routine. But I was inspired to jump back into it about two weeks ago after watching my 11-year-old proudly announce his daily step count recorded on his Fitbit. Now fitness isn't all that important to him. He's 11, but the gamification of fitness, the idea that it could be fun to hit 5,000 or 10,000 steps a day, that's what matters. This is the stroke of insight James Park had soon after he stood in line at a Best Buy in San Francisco to buy the brand new video game system called Nintendo Wii. And you'll hear James explain the story a bit later. But what he realized by playing the Wii is that you could actually change human behavior around exercise if you turned it into a game. And the thing is, up until James Park”

    2020-04-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Fitbit: James Park · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “That was the hope that would have 15 to 20 feet range, but the range was actually like two inches. We've got a ship this holiday season. Like, I've got tens of thousands of these people waiting. And I'm thinking, wow, this is it. We're done.”

    2020-04-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Fitbit: James Park · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “Sitting in my hotel room in Singapore, and I was testing out one of the prototype builds and the radio range was not good at all. It was supposed to have a range.”

    2020-04-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Fitbit: James Park · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT