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Pebble knows a thing or two about selling smartwatches

21
Mar
2014

While more and more companies are starting to take wearables seriously, Pebble appears to be doing all the selling. After launching its smartwatch via a tremendously popular Kickstarter campaign that helped raised over $10 million, the company sold over 400,000 Pebble smartwatches since January 2013, with revenues amounting to some $60 million according to Fortune. Even though the Pebble devices will get significant competition this year, Charles River Ventures partner and Pebble investor George Zachary said the company will make twice last year’s revenue this year. Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky doesn’t appear to be concerned about Google’s imminent invasion of the wearable ecosystem. “”When we started working on wearables six years ago, there were few players in the space and

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