What happened to Pebble Watch?

[@JustinKhoe]

I really miss my pebble. The always-on display, super long battery, and the ability to shake my wrist to dismiss notifications were my favorite aspects of pebble

[@VascoElbrecht]

i agree, pebble was great, loved the battery life and simplistic interface. best smartwatch i ever had

[@SianaGearz]

Why "miss", have you lost it? If it's faulty, you can have it repaired.

[@GrandNebSmada]

I still wear my pebble time every day! It's everything I need and nothing extra, which is exactly what I want from a smart watch

[@slidebean]

A true vintage tech piece!

[@RobinMarkowitzcoolmedia]

@@slidebean It's not "vintage." I bought all my Pebbles brand new, two last year. There are brand new ones on Amazon right now!

[@Angultra]

Same still no proper e-paper replacement for my Pebble time, good thing for the rebble team keeping the servers alive.

[@arjunlagisetty]

Bring pebble back ..

[@novizxc]

so do I

[@WoolfJ35]

$700 million to $40 million it always blows me away when I hear stuff like this.

[@g43s]

imo as a customer Fitbit should've kept the developement of the Pebble watch, there hasnt been a watch such as the Pebble since the company shut down. also i wanted so bad that new Pebble time 2 with its larger screen. i couldnt get my hands on one when the company was thriving but im hoping i can buy one soon.

[@Refalm]

I still wear a Pebble Time and I haven't found any smart watch that even compares, let alone can compete.

[@keent]

does it still get software updates? or it doesn't need to? I'm wondering. Never owned or seen a pebble but I think it is great for a group of consumers that doesn't want Apple Watch - like kind of device. Too bad they grew too much and did not account for its consequences.

[@Refalm]

@@keent we made our own replacement service rebble.io, there's still updates to apps and skins. I can control my Hue lights from my Pebble for example. The community is keeping it alive.

[@rjdverbeek]

I switched from my Pebble Time to a Garmin 245 music now. I must say that Garmin with their lineup gets very close to the Pebble experience. Always on display. Button interaction. Having small local apps. Long battery life. So their is an serious alternative available.

[@titanisaac]

Fossyl HR Collider, check it out, has E-ink

[@jamieblackburn4334]

Martin Evans Yes and No. The Apple Watch is the ‘smartest’ smart watch but it’s battery life is terrible. That’s where other smart watch’s thrive.

[@eduardoalvarez2497]

Let me see if I read the math right: 1.- 10 million on Kickstarter for Pebble 1 2.- 15 million dollars from investors after the Kickstarter success. 3.- 20 million dollars from the Kickstarter for the Pebble Time 4.- 12 million dollars from the Kickstarter for the Pebble Core. TOTAL = 57 million dollars. I know that hardware manufacturing is expensive, and 160 employers is expensive as well. But more than market misread, is this case a colossal management failure? Nothing like a lean COO could not solve?

[@celchronicles]

When it comes to hardware and software combined development, 57m (especially over multiple years and multiple generations of products) isn't much at all. They probably were operating at 10-20m a year at most, 160 staff along would cost >15m along per annual, not mentioning office rental, hardware manufacturing, marketing etc etc etc

[@peterbedford449]

Yeah, the amount of money to develop hardware solutions with R&D, staffing and manufacturing is very expensive and if you are scaling up you will have big solvency problems if you aren't able to develop solutions easily or secure heavy demand. That had some demand but they didn't find their market niche quick enough and so everything kind of came tumbling down and they couldn't support future development.

[@jackf1684]

@epiccollision Oh no no no, in my opinion when I got my Fitbit Charge 3 to *replace* my Pebble 2, I hated it! Haptics weren't the same, touchscreen was awful, screen was very pixelated & harder to read, and not just intuitive to use. Fitbit bought Pebble, and made a worse watch. My Pebble 2 still works to this day, and has more innovative features than FitBit will ever have.

[@cwood892]

I was thinking the same thing. I think that maybe if they priced the item higher, not hired so many people, and grown more slowly and they could’ve survived as a niche brand.

[@zarphus8087]

I watch this while wearing my original pebble. It still works beautifully, and the battery still lasts about 4-5 days.

[@oblivion.7051]

Hardware focused start-ups suffer due to the big corporate guys and the clear advantages they have at their disposal to stifle them, the companies that survive find a way to fight without surplus money (I love the Ben and Jerrys vs Goliath (Pillsbury) Example) - Looking forward to hear about Fitbit! Loving the series too :) - Daniel

[@highandmightyqueen79]

@Jay Talents Peter Thiel says competition is for losers. he says companies that succeed do so because they are monopolies.

[@danielm6341]

@@highandmightyqueen79 If you only want your company to last a few decades, sure. If you want it last centuries, you'd still need to adapt. Competition still exists at the big end. Those intergenerational companies diversify for survival; a monopoly exists until it doesn't. Unicorn monopolies are "successful" if your goal is a Wall Street pump & dump investment. This is why I'm never worried about companies replacing governments - they just don't have the stamina.

[@wesleyolifant3665]

740m think I might have said yes to that

[@TheTechnoTuber]

Wesley Olifant with hindsight, yes

[@eIektrinis]

that probably came with some nasty conditions. They always do.

[@its_rns]

If you're being offered 740m for your company, you'll have 2 trains of thought- 1. That's a great offer, i don't think i can take my company higher than where it presently is so it is wiser to just sell it. 2. That's a great offer, this must mean my company is valuable af, this is actually confirmation that my company is on the right path and that if I play my cards right my company can easily reach a several billion $ valuation.

[@lost4468yt]

@@its_rns Or 3.) "holly fuck are they stupid? Don't they realize this company is a sinking ship, quick accept their massive overvaluation". It's always hilarious to see a company be massively overvalued, some giant company pays a fuckton of money for them, then the company goes bankrupt within a year or two. Especially when the company which acquires them just doesn't get it and crashes the company into the ground themselves. Then again sometimes it's surprising. Microsoft bought Mojang, creators of Minecraft in 2014 for $2.5 billion. A company with a single 4/5 year old product, no new ideas other than updates for the game, and < 30 employees, and the deal involved the main talent (Notch) totally leaving the company. If you go and look back at the time then everyones speculation on it was that Microsoft had lost their minds. But now look, Microsoft is killing it with Mojang and Minecraft and are making absurd amounts of money on it. Maybe Microsoft was just lucky, but I think they realized that the game was essentially the new lego, and that the game had unbelievable staying power. I think they realized that even just Minecraft itself was always going to sell and was not going to be something that peters out. 2014/2015 was also the time that Microsoft finally moved out of their late 90s-early 00s thinking and started to change their business models and modernize the company, so maybe Minecraft was just early signs of that, or maybe they just got lucky, who knows.

[@DJVARAO]

Anyone with a sense of business will do in a heartbeat. They were offering ten times more than the actual company's value. He could start over from zero with all that money.

[@IEBATechThoughts]

I sit here in 2022 wearing my Pebble, still able to download watchfaces, still able to use cloud transcription, while watching a video from over a year ago, about the demise of the Pebble. Hell, if the company that made pebbles was smart, they'd fire up the manufacturing lines again to utilize the servers that are still running. And, ironically, the video says the lack of a fitness focus was the overall cause of the demise, it's the lack of a fitness focus that is the Pebble's strength. There's 200 "fitness focussed" watches. And, other than Pebble, zero business-focussed watches that enable communication. Zero thin, light, week-long running watches. You want to wear a 14mm brick on your arm you have to charge every night, there's a dozen of them out there. I'll stick with my pebble- for which there has been no suitable replacement.

[@rodrigoalejandrobs]

These Startup Forensics Stories are great! It is an amazing way to learn for entrepreneurs

[@cayahere]

Thanks for watching, Rodrigo!

[@trippymchippy8586]

Get some flashy graphics, do a kickstarter, boom, you just made $200m

[@fxcg2]

what the fuck did you learn?

[@g43s]

im so glad the Rebble team has kept Pebble alive for a while now

[@tinmank]

One day I lost my pebble, switched to apple watch, a year later I've found it, I'm still charging, stands on my desk but not using it. But I still love it.

[@blaster915]

I had the pebble time steel for many years and it was my favorite smartwatch, The fact I could have it go so long with its battery and not worry about charging it was always such a relief to not have something else to have battery anxiety about. honestly I'm not touching smart watches again until we get something with the power of Wear OS and a battery life similar to that of a pebble Monday off the charger to Friday for a quick top up for the weekend

[@kamel3d]

the only negative thing in these videos is the guy how he stands, it is uncomfortable to watch, would you please lean back or sit down? thank you

[@baptisted.8387]

Kamel Labiad and maybe some words need to be articulated more

[@DaveCWilson]

He can’t lean back, he will hit his head in the letters behind him

[@目は心の鏡]

I still have my 2nd Gen Pebble (Time) somewhere. I switched to an Apple Watch but still, 3 or 4 years later I miss that Color E-Ink display. It looked great and stayed on all the time compared to the pre-series 5 Apple Watch that only lights up when raised or tapped. Being able to install custom watch faces is also a feature I long for on Apple's WatchOS. I would love a mix between the Apple Watch and Pebble. Both had good ideas, both had bad ideas.

[@slidebean]

There's still a lot of territory to be explored in wearable-tech land!

[@cayahere]

So an Apple Watch with a Pebble battery life? 😍

[@kalijasin]

Pebble best smart watch ever.

[@ashley88101]

You May want to look into the Garmin Vivoactive series. I have been trying to find a good replacement for my pebbles (I've had four total) for years. A few weeks ago I got the Garmin Vivoactive 4s and love it. E ink display, simply interface, two buttons, water proof, and 10 day battery life! It has a lot more too but these were the only aspects I truly cared about. I tried other watches but they frustrated all day. The best part about my new watch is I don't even think about it. The best watch is the one you don't notice because that means it's doing it's job!

[@MikeAltogether]

I loved my Pebble. But at the same time the Time2 and the GPS pod were about to release, Garmin was releasing watches with similar battery life and built-in GPS, and adding almost all the smartwatch features Pebble had. It was never going to last for Pebble.

[@keybraker]

I stopped using my pebble when they removed the app from the play store and then it was pretty difficult to set it up with third party apps reliably. Still believe this is the best smartwatch

[@marism6787]

Check out rebble.io

[@amj-q8407]

@@marism6787 thank you for the link it really helped me using and setting up my pebble again.

[@DavidGreen_au]

All my Pebble watches died, not the battery, but screen failure. Otherwise they were good, and I do miss it. These days I use Amazfit Bip (at around $100), it uses a similar colour screen to the last Pebble, but squeezes a few weeks of use out of its battery; the only thing it lacks is media control.

[@pebbletime3975]

I was gr8 until 2016...

[@momoneylessproblems9183]

Damn. What kind of a moron would walk away from a possible $740M buyout?

[@debasishraychawdhuri]

The fact that people constantly responded to crowdfunding means the customers loved it. It only sank because the investors misunderstood it (although Citizen did like it).

[@slidebean]

There was a market for what it offered at the time, certainly!

[@cayahere]

True! That's the part that's most insane to me.

[@eIektrinis]

@@slidebean There is still market today, I mean productivity-oriented one, not fitness. One of my first watches was pebble, then I tried maybe 15 other models and come a circle back to pebble, as there seems to be nothing better in my case. There are very few watches with such awesome always-on display combined with battery life. And those few watches are terrible at productivity, all try to be fit.

[@TwoCraZyEyes0]

Maybe most investors didn't get it but Citizen did, but Eric was cocky and didn't take the deal.

[@DanHartwigMusic]

Still rocking my Pebble Time

[@ethand4784]

90% of this fucking comments section is I'm wearing my pebble rn or I miss my pebble

[@LemonsRage]

I read somewhere that the critical phase for a company is when they reach around 160 employees. That is the point where it gets decided wheter the company will fail or reach never to be imgained heights

[@sohjayden7717]

I still wear a original pebble watch and I think it is one of the best watches I've come across... Quite annoying when you go to the play store to download the mobile app for a pebble app but it says item not found.... But still happy and many thanks to rebble to keeping pebble alive

[@taylor1038]

I had two Pebbles back in the day. And I just got a fossil hybrid smartwatch. I have to say this is the only smart watch that captures the inexpensiveness, good battery life, and readable anywhere e-ink display of the Pebbles. I like it!

[@djrozzer7010]

My original Pebble was more stable and consistent with notifications than any of my Apple Watches have been.

[@randyspears9827]

I still wear my Pebble everyday. It does everything I need from a Smartwatch.

[@L0wPressure]

I bought pebble time after they confirmed the company's death. Still wearing it now. I really wanted pebble time 2 though 😢

[@randyspears9827]

Me, too. I'm still wearing my PTS

[@Roskellan]

I have two Pebble Watches and I love them both. Even now i cant find a watch I like better.

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

If Pebble sold to Citizen, we may all have Pebble watches instead of Apple watches. It is a lot cooler. I feel like I settled on Apple Watch. Who knows, maybe Citizen may have started their own phone division. Microsoft took over desktop computing, Apple took over pocket computing, Citizen may have taken over wrist computing. The world may have been a better place because of it. Side note: I hate fit bit for shutting it down.

[@enilenis]

Still use my Pebble time. When it came out I was making my own "data pagers", which were designed to stream IT analytics to a portable gadget that a system administrator could carry. I had my own software written and was hoping to port it to pebble, but it wasn't as user friendly as I was hoping. I needed a way to communicate with the watch directly, without a cell phone, and there was no way to do it, aside from blutetooth ID spoofing. At that point, the watch has lost its development appeal for me. I kept using it as a regular smartwatch and I do not regret the purchase, but I know, based on forum talk, that many potential developers were turned away the same way I was. The felt like they were advertised one device and delivered something different.

[@jackkraken3888]

"Fitbit was acquired by Google, lets see what happens. " Deathwatch:"Oooh a new company!"

[@TheShadokai]

I was an early backer on Kickstarter and loved my watch. They were so far ahead of any other competitors. Without them Apple would not have tried. They adopted nearly every capability.

[@kyb7795]

And now Google bought Fitbit

[@jarnMod]

My Pebble 1 has just died last month. I was frustrated one day that I couldn't use the store app. Then I googled if their service was live. Yep. Not live. The company went out. I realized that 1 year after the fact. Imagine a smartwatch that just work for year after year that make you miss their company going under. It was that good. It's a shame they didn't last.

[@DarthPuma]

I got a Pebble 2 HR and it was my EDC watch for nearly 4 years. I broke it while working and couldn't get it fixed because of Fitbit :( I didn't know the brand was bought out so I was sol. Such an amazing watch and would buy again if the brand was still around.

[@ibn_Rushd2025]

Love to see your videos and assessment is on point as always! Just a small suggestion, it will be better if you lower the "exposure value" while editing.

[@slidebean]

Thanks for the tip!

[@wildfred]

Pebble was everything that I ever wanted for a smartwatch, not less, not more. It was just perfect! (btw I hate touch screens)

[@striffleric]

I wear a Pebble Time Round to this day and have not found a smartwatch that even comes close to replacing it!

[@vladutcornel]

After Pebble, I moved to Vector, which was also bought out. After that, I moved to Samsung. Check-mate, Fitbit.

[@pontifexinstitute]

I loved my Vector...

[@migo-migo9503]

I still wear my Pebble Round everyday. still an awesome watch. Still looks better than all other smart watches I've seen out there.

[@slidebean]

Really? Wow! Thank you for watching!

[@PowerScissor]

I switch between my Pebble Time for work and HR2 when not at work. Not a single watch yet has beat the Pebble for features for my uses. At least in my friend circle...everyone hated it when Pebble started pushing the fitness stuff. We are all very fitness oriented with a large percentage being professional athletes. None of us understand the use of your step count, or the use of the HR data you get from the watch. We all are already in shape, so I guess step count might be an ok metric for those getting in shape? I plan on using my Pebble's until repair is no longer possible. My gf even bought me the expensive Samsung Galaxy Active 2. Tried it for 1 day and wrnt running back to my Pebbles.

[@blaster915]

The only smart watch that I've seen come close to the original Pebble Spirit is the Garmin Vivomove luxe 2. It has its charm and streamlined approach to user interface. It can't do as much as the pebble, But it's the closest I've seen something come that can allow me to respond to notification change my music and track my sleep that goes for the coveted Monday to Friday battery life.

[@richiekock8835]

I like it that he did not sell the company. This is all Monday morning coaching. These things can go either way.

[@BigRobChicagoPL]

I still have my Pebble original black watch in it's box. Used to love that thing but like many other 1st gens it has screen tearing now when you turn it on. I also bought a blue green Pebble 2 but sold. Good products but too bad they went out of the spotlight.

[@bryanr87]

I remember my pebble. I was bleeding edge tech cool back in the day, wearing my pebble.

[@jime_]

Mine has died fairly recently, but will remain the best smart watch i have ever wear. I miss it very much!

[@misanthropicmusings4596]

I had two pebbles -- great watch. Lasted almost a week on a charge.

[@gfyGoogle]

Was a huge fan of my original Pebble and Pebble Steel. But man did the second Kickstarter campaign rub me the wrong way. It felt like they were taking advantage of their fans and customers. Switched to the Apple Watch and haven’t looked back since.

[@Xengrii]

I really really miss Pebble. I bought the Time in 2015, and after they sold to FitBit I bought another Time (Steel) anyways because it’s was the best smartwatch out there. Right now I switched from Android to iOS and haven’t got a new smartwatch because the Apple Watch is expensive AF and doesn’t last a week. So here I am, using a Xiaomi Mi Band 4, waiting for the next big thing to come...

[@HeavyMetalPianoChnl]

Have you looked at Garmin? The only thing about them is that they are heavily geared towards fitness. I have the Fenix 5 and it will last well over a week while constantly connected, always on and measuring heart rate, not so sure about the cheaper ones, could be worth looking into?

[@Xengrii]

@@HeavyMetalPianoChnl I don't like Garmin watches, they aren't cheap either. The closest thing to Pebble right now is Mobvoi Ticwatch series but it's still not quite there.

[@pedrochiapello]

@@Xengrii The Amazfit Bip is close, but there aren't apps. There is a project (BipOS) to create a framework for app making for the watch. I have it installed and there's Tetris, Snake, and 2048 haha. It has amazing battery and a great display (e-ink colour).

[@LOTR_BTTF]

For anyone that misses the long battery life of the Pebble watches, you should check out the Amazfit watches. Most of them get as good or even better battery life than Pebble watches did (the Amazfit Bip can get like a month). You can't download any third party apps but most of them have fitness/heart rate/sleep tracking built in (other than the Bip Lite, they even have GPS). When I moved on from my Pebble Time, I switched to the Bip. It also looks a lot like an Apple Watch for people who care about that.

[@GET2222]

Pebble was first to market, but clearly couldn’t compete with the soon to be largest watch maker in the world, APPLE.

[@Mr1900]

Connectivity was always the issue for me on iPhone. I owned the first and second gen of these watches and same problem.

[@AL3XK4]

Mr1900 never never had a problem with my 3 Steels. Especially now, it just works

[@AmtrakAcelaProductions]

Pebble is still so much better than fitbit and I really wish they could have kept going by themselves, I still remember picking up a pebble 2 discounted at target and I wear it 2 years straight and it was the best wearable I used since, comfortable, useful and the battery was great. My mom have a fitbit now and it's constantly having problems, with in less than a year I had to get it replaced by fitbit because it randomly stopped working, I really hope google brings pebble back in some way I would love another watch like that

[@unwanted_spam]

they are back!

[@capvcom]

I used to love this product until they took my $400 for 2 pebble 2 watches but did not send them to me because they declear that this company do not exit on this planet.I tried to call kickstarter for refound and got no reply at all.

[@sabirrugunate1286]

Same here...

[@vladutcornel]

That's unlucky. I ordered a Pebble 2, which they delivered, and a Steel 2, which they didn't, but they gave me a refund.

[@SzczepanBentyn]

I still have two models of Pebble. I love this product. I cried when they when bust.

[@bobbyhinner3225]

I had the basic original pebble. I LOVED that thing, but the battery just doesn’t hold on anymore. My amazfit bip works really well instead though

[@geetarguy777]

Pebble got me hooked 🤷‍♂️ and as basic as it is, it’s exactly what it claimed to be. Yeah, it’s black and white and does basic smart watch things, but it’s closer to a normal watch, it doesn’t need charging every evening, it works. We can probably all thank Pebble for what we’ve got for wearable today

[@SFVYachtClub]

Fitbit bought them out because they could NOT tolerate the thought of a competitor who sells smartwatches that aren't NSA/Advertiser-connected data miners.

[@tawhidmir]

The Pebble watch is the best watch I have ever worn. The battery life was unbeatable.

[@letssee1281]

Pebble watches are still ahead of all, thanks to rebble and people who still love and supportive

[@benharris1764]

Love this show! Don’t ever stop

[@slidebean]

ben harris Thanks!

[@DanielPierce]

I wanted a Pebble Time 2 so bad!

[@TobiasLeininger]

Pebble Steel still is the nicest Smart Watch, Battery runs forever, does everything ...

[@mecfluri]

amazing! I always wanted someone to make this

[@LimitedWard]

$740m 740 MILLION DOLLARS Some people are so full of themselves it's ridiculous.

[@randomtech4973]

My first smart watch was a pebble watch

[@thatsimon4275]

I still use my pebble as a daily driver. Always on 7 day messaging view and time

[@BravoCastNetwork]

Loved my Pebble watch way more than my Microsoft SPOT FM watch

[@JessiOz2k07]

I had no idea what this watch was!

[@dhuwdhuwdhuw]

I mean, we all know what pebble really needs, endorsements from Instagram lifestyle accounts. Back then, I only knew pebble being mentioned from tech reviewers.

[@ValseInstrumentalist]

The Pebble didn't fail anyone. People failed the Pebble. It was the perfect smartwatch, especially the Time. GPS, excellent voice to text, a very user-friendly suite of developer tools to make apps and highly interactive watchfaces, a beautiful and quirky design, a huge library of apps that's still unbeaten, the e-paper low energy LCD, navigation, speed, user-friendly UI, the list goes on. I can't think of any way to improve them. More people should have bought them.

[@l33tllama]

Pebble is still the best smartwatch maker today. Always on display, apps, long battery life and sleek design. Nothing else beats it, not even Fitbit. I had a pebble, but it broke. I've had to put up with a Xiaomi Amazfit Bip which doesn't have apps. I think the always-on e-ink display is a must in a smartwatch. And having good app integration is very important too. Nothing like the Pebble any more 😭.

[@DrewLytle]

Great video as always, guys!

[@slidebean]

Awwww, thanks, Drew :)

[@cayahere]

Thank you, sir!

[@Alb_01]

I miss my Pebble (R.I.P.) I've not found a smartwatch as good since. I don't need a watch that does what my phone does, I want a watch that works with my phone ...and has a decent battery, everything the Pebble was.

[@marvinsommer85]

i love my "Pebble Time Steel"

[@AnalyticalMenace]

You still own a BlackBerry Curve, don't you?

[@Mucklegipe]

I had two of the original and a Time. The Time purchased new just before Fitbit takeover, they ‘supported’ it for a while but ultimately shut everything down. Rendered all but obsolete when the app was discontinued. Hardware and software were simple but streets ahead of the competition, but victim of by being abandoned by Pebble, then in turn Fitbit. I cannot see it would have cost too much for Fitbit to keep the app and online services running, but chose not to.

[@n2da9]

Imagine getting a 750 THOUSAND Dollar offer, and then failing and rejecting it, and then selling for 30 million and getting killed...

[@SuperYellowsubmarin]

Crowdfunding is pre-sales, investment is capital. Big difference. Anyway 160 employees for a product manufactured abroad sounds a lot.

[@ziyangzhang5219]

My pebble round is still my favorite smart watch, and I still think it's one of the best smart watchs.

[@JadeyJ4d3y]

I still have a few pebbles, my dad gave me one before i had an apple watch a few years ago

[@jakob.k_design]

I am binge-watching these videos right now and can't wait when they do one of these about star citizen. (I know they are not bankrupt now, but let's be honest, it is never gonna be a real success.)

[@illuminoeye_gaming]

Can't wait for a star citizen video? Well first you have to wait for star citizen to release lmao

[@iestynhands4760]

The Pebble time was my first smart watch. I had to find something different just because of when it lost support i had to factory rest the watch every week :(

[@kalijasin]

Fitbit killed pebble. 😠 #BoyCottFitBit

[@RocketRock4ever]

The logo for this channel, looks like the skype logo. Lot’s of confusion in my head when i see it on my feed

[@RocketRock4ever]

@X Y great comment haha lots of thought

[@aakashjunooni]

So did Pebble fail bcoz the hardware was expesive to procure ? I didnt fully understand why they failed if sales were booming all along

[@HikarusVibrator]

holy smokes this is a cool channel

[@slidebean]

Thank you!

[@brycehayes175]

I loved my pebble me and my friends had them . I Have very good memories of me and my friends playing with ours pebbles and I don’t see them anymore ): Times have changed since then

[@sochyvonnnora6035]

Great very well researched video. Love you. Keep up

[@slidebean]

Thanks!

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

The guy was stupid for turning down Citizen’s offer.

[@gfyGoogle]

Sooo so stupid

[@muhammadhaikalpermanaatmaj73]

well not really. This kind of 'rejecting expensive acquisition' was worthwhile high-risk gambling, there's no guarantee whether this could be a billion dollar business or total bankrupcy. But another side of story that you can find is Google & Netflix. Both of them was offered by big companies at that time with a high price but still rejected it. And what's their fate today? The titan of internet & series

[@stefanc4520]

This man really thought that his watch company was worth more then $740M after barely 1 million sales of his CHEAP watch. Smart techie, poor business sense.

[@jonathanmugridge4792]

I love my pebble. Killing pebble setback the progress of the smart watch for years.

[@aleksbalazic]

Still the best smart watch to day, and the only one that got it right

[@Cobal]

Where is part two about Fitbit

[@slidebean]

Thanks! Vote/add your favorite topics here: slidebean.com/youtube-suggest-a-video

[@eliastouil7686]

The new intro is great :)

[@cayahere]

Thanks! All credit goes to Elena, from our Animation team!

[@etm3398]

seems like fitbit killed both jawbone and pebble

[@RockyC89]

Imagine passing up on the 740 million. That’s wild.

[@HoLDoN4Sec]

that's dumb, citizen actually wanted to still keep him as CEO of pebble after the acquisition, and since there were no investors in pebble and it was 90% owned by themselves... (10% was owned by that investment firm from the beginning) that was a STUPID thing to pass up on... think of it like this - if citizen did end up buying pebble, that would completely change the smart watch market - the only smart watch in the market today which is worth buying is the apple watch, back in 2014 that was not the case - you had Pebble and Apple competing and Pebble actually won for the most part lol it was only when Pebble shut down that apple watches became more popular and widespread as they currently are. (well you know it is hard to justify your client's spending 1200$ when your competitor is selling their "luxury" smart watch for 200$...)

[@vishxl]

Still have my OG Pebble

[@petek9348]

pebble was great ( i still have my pebble time). the ios APP was great, i didnt have to "sync" the watch to the phone every time i opened up the app, and the damn display rocked. always on eink was awesome when looking at it at any angle at any time. Also, the watchfaces were GLORIOUS!!! pebble was great, and it still is.