Jordi Hays
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There was so much energy around Oculus and the dev community.
Um, but it was a tough, it was, it was a very tough business.
A lot of hardware challenges, much less mature supply chain.
Everything's expensive.
Um, and, uh,
There's all these complex market dynamics with other big companies.
Meta bought Oculus.
Apple was investing heavily.
Eventually, Apple actually tried to buy David's first company, Leap Motion.
But the deal fell through at the 11th hour.
I think it actually happened twice.
There was a reporting that Apple had printed welcome packets to all of the Leap Motion employees being like, you're getting onboarded today.
And then the deal fell through, which is crazy.
You don't see that normally.
He turned it down.
There is some crazy reporting about getting in and basically being like, ah, this is too corporate, or this is not the vibe.
We're not going to be successful here.
But one day he'll tell the story.
But it was really rough for the company.
They had to do layoffs.