Eric Migicovsky, Founder, Pebble & Beeper
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 4 min
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Episode description
In today's episode Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble and Beeper, shares the journey of building one of the first smartwatches. The Pebble watch made history as Kickstarter’s most-funded project at the time, raising $10.3 million. What happened next showed how difficult it was to build a hardware startup in the 2010s, even if you did almost everything right.
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