August CEO Jason Johnson on opening the smart home of the future

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Recorded15 Jan 2019

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel chats with August CEO Jason Johnson about smart locks and the challenges of integrating various technologies within a smart home. They discuss whether every company needs to be a data collection company, and why it's so difficult to be a hardware company in tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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