Headspace CEO Rich Pierson: ”This is my business partner, the ex-Buddhist monk.”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Headspace CEO Rich Pierson: ”This is my business partner, the ex-Buddhist monk.”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:36:43
• Published: 2017-07-22 19:30

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Rich Pierson, co-founder of Headspace, the popular meditation app, to talk about how it started in London nine years ago (6:30), meeting his co-founder (8:00), quitting his job marketing deodorant (9:15), starting out with group meditation events (13:00), accidental focus groups (16:00), moving to California (16:45), going from 18 to 170 employees (19:30), layoffs and mistakes (20:00), convincing investors to put money into mindfulness (21:30), competing with 3,000 rival apps (25:00), struggling to manage people (30:00), helping nurses with “compassion fatigue’ (34:00), and signing up big companies (34:45).

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