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Eric Migicovsky

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

I started working on Pebble back in 2008 while I was an engineering student at the University of Waterloo.

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Eric Migicovsky at Startup School SV 2014

@ Y Combinator

Eric Migicovsky at Startup School SV 2014

10/15/14

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Eric Migicovsky

10/13/18

@ Y Combinator

We started the company in 2008 while I was still a student at Waterloo, and we didn't ship our first product until 2010, which was a long process.

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Eric Migicovsky

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

When we launched on Kickstarter, we were just five people, none of whom had experience in consumer electronics, so we spent six months in Asia developing the first prototypes of Pebble.

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Eric Migicovsky

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

I had a moment of realization when I pulled the first red Pebble watch off the assembly line on December 28, 2012, feeling that all our efforts had finally paid off.

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Eric Migicovsky

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

We designed Pebble by incorporating feedback from our first product, ensuring it worked with iPhones and included features that users wanted.

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Eric Migicovsky

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

It's mindboggling to see how far we've come from starting out to create a watch just for ourselves to now having a global community building innovative applications for Pebble.

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Jessica Livingston

10/25/13

@ Y Combinator

Eric Migicovsky faced rejection from over 30 investors for his hardware startup, Pebble, before successfully crowdfunding it on Kickstarter.

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Thomas Dohmke

04/09/25

@ EO

In 2008, I quit my job in the automotive industry to pursue app development after seeing the potential of the iPhone SDK.

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Eric Migicovsky

10/13/18

@ Y Combinator

The hardest part of my journey with Pebble was the five years it took to achieve product-market fit, which involved a lot of trial and error.

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Eric Migicovsky

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

I started working on wearables six and a half years ago because I wanted to create a more affordable smartwatch, as I didn't want to spend $400 on existing options.