About Me
I'm an inventor who loves creating new products, including Pebble (the first smartwatch) and Beeper (a universal chat app). I also spent 4 years as a partner at Y Combinator. I enjoy advising early stage startups - especially hardware!
Blog Posts
- Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever(repebble.com) [2026-01-02]
- Pebble Relaunch - Year One Done! [2025-12-31]
- Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain(repebble.com) [2025-12-09]
- Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward [2025-11-18]
- The new Pebble app is live on iOS and Android [2025-11-12]
- (re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore [2025-10-09]
- Quick P2D production update (twitter.com) [2025-09-29]
- Pebble 2 Duo is in mass production! [2025-08-22]
- Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal [2025-08-13]
- July Pebble Update [2025-07-25]
- Quick Pebble Project Update (twitter.com) [2025-07-09]
- Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup! [2025-06-11]
- How To Build A Smartwatch: Picking A Chip [2025-05-12]
- My new podcast: Tick Talk + Core 2 Duo demo [2025-05-01]
- Gratitude and FAQ [2025-03-26]
- Introducing two new Pebble watches! [2025-03-18]
- February Shenzhen Trip Update [2025-03-03]
- How to help us build open source Pebble software! [2025-02-06]
- Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back [2025-01-27]
- Remember how awesome PebbleOS is? [2025-01-26]
- Beeper is joining Automattic (blog.beeper.com) [2024-04-09]
- Beeper And The Power Of Protocols - Podcast (techdirt.com) [2024-01-17]
- Beeper – Moving Forward (blog.beeper.com) [2023-12-21]
- Introducing Beeper Mini – get blue bubbles on Android 💙 (blog.beeper.com) [2023-12-05]
- Beeper State of the App (Spring 2023) (blog.beeper.com) [2023-03-06]
- We’re building the best chat app on Earth (blog.beeper.com) [2023-02-23]
- I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone [2022-05-17]
- Success and Failure at Pebble [2022-04-11]
- Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App [2021-01-20]
- The Universal Communication Bus [2020-07-09]
- Announcing Startup School Winter 2020 (ycombinator.com) [2019-12-10]
- Startup School - How to talk to users [2019-07-25]
- Startup School - A Conversation on Hard Tech [2018-10-12]
- Announcing Startup School Beijing (ycombinator.com) [2018-04-26]
- The time of our lives (kickstarter.com) [2016-12-07]
- Verge interview at CES 2016 [2016-01-08]
- Pebble starts shipping (kickstarter.com) [2013-01-23]
- Verge interview at CES 2013 [2013-01-09]
- Kickstarter 1 Campaign Updates (kickstarter.com) [2012-06-20]
- Pebble Kickstarter Campaign Success! (kickstarter.com) [2012-05-18]
- Final post on the inPulse blog (web.archive.org) [2012-02-02]
- Candid experiences starting a hardware startup [2011-10-04]
- Superhacker Rossum hacked inPulse - Have you? (web.archive.org) [2011-02-18]
- inPulse tumblr - ah memories (tumblr.com) [2010-09-19]
- Interview on Crackberry [2010-04-27]
- Evolution of inPulse - Part 2 (tumblr.com) [2009-10-26]
- Evolution of inPulse - Part 1 (tumblr.com) [2009-10-25]
- Watchduino - first video [2008-06-08]
- My first tweet (x.com) [2008-01-15]