{"id":457,"date":"2024-04-21T08:33:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T08:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2024-04-21T08:33:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T08:33:40","slug":"oh-the-humanity-why-you-cant-build-apple-with-venture-capital-benjamin-sandofsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/21\/oh-the-humanity-why-you-cant-build-apple-with-venture-capital-benjamin-sandofsky\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOh the Humanity &#8211; Why You Can&#8217;t Build Apple with Venture Capital\u201d &#8211; Benjamin Sandofsky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe Apple Way works best when they take an existing product and make it amazing. The best pitch for Apple Watch wasn&#8217;t &#8220;The Rolex of Tech,&#8221; but rather, &#8220;A very fancy FitBit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also helps when a product leverages Apple&#8217;s existing ecosystem, and the goodwill Apple had earned from customers. The Apple Watch connected to the Health app, received messages from your phone, played your favorite music, etc. Apple has a beautiful moat, I&#8217;m sure filled with stunning koi fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humane spent five years developing their product in a vacuum. They lacked a FitBit to prove their concept. They had little evidence people want to ditch their phones. They didn&#8217;t know what form factors users would tolerate. They didn&#8217;t have normal people telling them battery swaps are dumb\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandofsky.com\/humane\/\">https:\/\/www.sandofsky.com\/humane\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Apple Way works best when they take an existing product and make it amazing. The best pitch for Apple Watch wasn&#8217;t &#8220;The Rolex of Tech,&#8221; but rather, &#8220;A very fancy FitBit.&#8221; It also helps when a product leverages Apple&#8217;s existing ecosystem, and the goodwill Apple had earned from customers. The Apple Watch connected to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}