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Carl Pei

08/14/24

@ Y Combinator

In our first year, we ended up selling about 600,000 units after addressing the initial quality issues.

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How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years

@ Y Combinator

08/14/24

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Eric Migicovsky

10/13/18

@ Y Combinator

We manufactured our first 100 units by hand, which allowed us to quickly iterate and fix problems as they arose during production.

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Eric Migicovsky

10/13/18

@ Y Combinator

Before going through the entire manufacturing process, we sold around 700 to 800 units of our product, which helped validate our idea.

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Hosain Rahman

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

We went from zero to seventy million in revenue in our first year after launching our product, which sold out in a few hours.

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Hosain Rahman

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

When we launched a new product in 2011, we received a billion media impressions, but we also faced issues with product failures at scale.

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Yotam Segev

05/09/25

@ The Logan Bartlett Show

In our first year, we faced significant challenges, including a tough go-to-market transition and hiring the wrong team for our stage of growth.

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Michelle Zatlyn

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

When we first launched our product, I was embarrassed about its readiness, but we had to ship it. We learned from our initial customers, who provided valuable feedback that helped us improve.

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Hosain Rahman

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

After launching our first consumer product, we realized we had compromised on key design elements, which ultimately led to its poor performance in the market.

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Eric Migicovsky

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

Our team grew significantly after launching, and we shipped hundreds of thousands of watches worldwide, despite initially feeling uncertain about our direction.

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Alexandra

09/18/18

@ Y Combinator

After demo day, we had to ship our first units, which required moving most of our team to China to manage manufacturing.