We’ve been fortunate to have countless mentors over our now seven-year journey as a company. Who have been some of your mentors? Can you share a story about how they made an impact? We all need a little help along the journey. Through this gaff, we learned how important it is to have SOPs for any publicly facing deliverable, and fortunately, we haven’t made that mistake ever again. We were so embarrassed and had to make a public Facebook post apologizing, but thankfully our customers were very understanding. Over the next hour, people on the mailing list replied (to everyone) and sent over 200,000 emails until the email server ultimately (and appropriately) blocked us. The first time we emailed out 20,000 person mailing list back in the summer of 2014, we mistakenly sent our message without BCC. We’re showing the future of the wearables category by making the therapeutic power of temperature accessible to all.Ĭan you share a story about the funniest mistake you made when you were first starting? Can you tell us what lesson you learned from that? Our customers use Embr Wave to make thermal wellness a part of their routine and to support people living with underserved medical conditions like menopausal hot flashes, POTS, anxiety, and more. With over tens-of-thousands of devices sold and customers in 160 countries, we’ve shown that consumers want devices that do more than count steps and measure sleep. Our first product, Embr Wave, heats and cools to use temperature to help with comfort, sleep, stress, and hot flashes by balancing the autonomic nervous system. We won the contest and incorporated Embr Labs in early 2014 to commercialize our technology.Ĭan you tell our readers what it is about the work you’re doing that’s disruptive?Įmbr Labs is disrupting the wearables industry by going beyond just tracking and actually helping users. We came up with the idea for Embr Wave to enter into a prototyping contest in the summer of 2013. I was involved in research as an undergraduate and met my eventual co-founders through my experiences in a research lab. At the same time, I always had an interest in starting a company, but I didn’t know there was a term for someone who did that until I took an entrepreneurship class. I chose to major in Materials Science & Engineering because every field can benefit from new materials, so I figured it would be a good foundation for a variety of career paths. I arrived at MIT as a freshman in the fall of 2010 not knowing what I wanted to do. Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? What led you to this particular career path? Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would like to get to know you a bit more.
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