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Jerry Wilmink

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
141 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

I think it was through Twitter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

And then I think it was again through our YEC network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

Facebook too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

Oh yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

No, you know, I, I'm a startup junkie, you know?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

So I, you know, I literally, even at our headquarters here, I incubate other new companies and I just, I love the whole process of bringing, you know, ideas to fruition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

Yeah, so I'm happy to tell the brief story, kind of how we got started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

Okay, what we do is we've made a proprietary smart jewelry product that allows any woman to stay safe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

And so what we've done, actually, I have an image of the product here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

This is the first kind of fusion product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

So wearables for years have been made of elastomers and plastics, primarily because Bluetooth and Wi-Fi can't go through metal materials.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

And we discovered here that we could transmit Bluetooth and Wi-Fi through metal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

And so we developed a jewelry product with some partners in New York City with past experience from... You've got Iris Apfel on your thing, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

She is my buddy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

What's that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

She has equity in the business?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 451: 5000 Smart Jewelry Units Sold, $5.1M Raised with WiseWear CEO Jerry Wilmink

Yes, she is our designer.

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