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Jerry Wilmink

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
141 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

We have, well, we have multiple products too.

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

This is just our first product line.

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

We have, you know, we started the business.

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

I mean, the backstory on this is the reason we put this on a napkin last May and brought it to market in eight or nine months.

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

You know, so our initial product was a medical device.

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

Essentially, my grandfather was suffering from a condition called Lewy Body Dementia in 2010, which is a cross between Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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

He fell down in his home in October of that year, broke his hip, laid there for two hours.

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

My grandma eventually got to him, but he passed away.

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

After he passed away, that's when WiseWord truly began, and we developed a hearing aid device.

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

It's a hearable.

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

People call it a hearable now.

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

But it's a hearing aid device that has dehydration sensors, gate sensing, motion sensing built into it, picks up when a senior's at risk for falling, and then whispers in their ear that they're at risk for falling to sit down.

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

And that's 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

And that's where the new patent emerged on transmitting Bluetooth through the metal in the hearable.

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

And so that was how we really began.

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

And we've gotten funding through the government as well.

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

No, no, not at all.

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

Actually, 65% of our sales are college women.

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

Really?

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

Yeah.