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From: Hosain Rahman
To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacationggmail.com>
Cc: Richard Kahn <
>, Andrew Lindsay
Subject: Re: Jawbone Opportunity
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:58:37 +0000
It means that for every dollar over the participation amount you receive nine dollars in liquidation preference.
On Aug 30, 2015, at 12:51 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
what do you mean imcrease my preference by9 times , I dont follow
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Hosain Rahman <
> wrote:
Jeffrey,
Nice to speak with you briefly. As promised, here's an update on the financing round and business:
Investment Opportunity for Mort (see attached):
For a $1.25M investment you will elevate all your previous common and preferred to the
most senior equity preference (after convertible note) with a 1.5x preference. You currently
have $5M in Series 5 preferred with —$1B in preference ahead of it and $5M in common. Closing
is on Monday.
Financing Round:
Although our latest major investment round was later than expected, we're pleased to have
BlackRock as a partner. BlackRock invested $220M in a convertible note in April and then added
an additional $50M to it paired with $40M in Series 8 Preferred equity from JP Morgan and
Sequoia. Now, BlackRock is obligated to invest an additional $50M if we raise an additional $35M
in Series 8 Preferred by the end of August. We're offering it to Major Investors and it's structured to
be a great way for holders of prior preferred to increase their preference coverage and seniority.
Every investor we've spoken to has been pleasantly surprised by how advantageous the terms are:
investors essentially get to increase their preference on 9x their money invested. More details on
the transaction and potential for you are attached. I know Andrew Lindsay on my team has spoken
to Richard Kahn about it a couple times.
Team:
We recently hired two exceptional business leaders to partner with me to run the business. With
the addition of Sameer Samat and Jason Child we have one of the premier executive teams of any
late-stage startup.
Sameer Samat joined in June as our President. He was previously a VP at Google leading their
commerce business and a key lieutenant to Sundar Pichai, the new Google CEO. He's
responsible for our entire product development organization including R&D, software, hardware
and design. In the two months he's been here we've already instilled important discipline in our
development process that will help us better launch products on time and on cost.
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We also hired a new CFO. Jason Child joined last month from Groupon where he took them public
as their CFO. Prior to that he was CFO of Amazon's international business. He's excited about
helping us grow with the exploding wearables market while keeping gross margins and operating
costs in line.
Sales and Partnerships:
Confidentially, we're in talks with several key partners to integrate our products into their offerings.
We're deep in talks with Microsoft on combining UP into their Office productivity suite. It would be
huge for corporate wellness. We're discussing powering watches with our sensors and software.
Fossil is driving these conversations and eager to partner. They sells over 30M watches annually
under brands such as Michael Kors and Tory Burch so we're seriously considering it.
Our recent sales have been a mixed bag. We have successfully narrowed our focus to wearables
exclusively in 2014 but total sales were below expectations. Last year nearly 80% of our revenues
were from UP bands and this year we expect it to be over 95%. Total sales in Q4 2014 and H1
2015 were hampered though by delayed funding and product launches. We didn't have the
necessary marketing support when we launched the products and they suffered from low
awareness. Despite this we forecast wearable sales to grow 43% from $201M in 2014 to $288M in
2015. We should be fully on track going into 2016 and expect to grow with the market and
generate $651M in revenues.
Market:
The wearables market is growing incredibly fast. Consumers are excited about the space and
seeking new products. While we've ceded some of the market to Fitbit we're seeing that
consumers are not brand loyal at this early stage. Best Buy recently surveyed their customers and
found that half of them are interested in wearables and 92% of them are not loyal to any brand. It's
reminiscent of the early stages of the smartphone market when Symbian had 50% of the share in
2009 and fell to 1% in 2012.
Products:
We launched three great new bands this year: UP2, UP3 and UP4. UP3 is the market's only band
with bioimpedance sensors to get accurate heart rate and UP4 has all UP3's features with
American Express payment functionality. UP2 has all the functionality of UP24 but at lower cost
with better design. The products have remarkable technology but the clasp and the capacitive
touch input mechanism disappointed some customers. We've worked quickly to resolve those
issues and expect to continue to delight customers. We also have some beautiful new jewelry-like
UP2 and UP3 designs coming out in a couple weeks. Channel partners have been raving about
them and if you send me the best address to reach you at I'll send you one.
Development:
Our current products are exciting but the real magic is what we have on deck. We have the
industry's best intellectual property and we're incorporating it into groundbreaking new products
with features such as blood pressure, stress detection and respiration. We have even more
advanced sensors in development. With our sensor development we're at the forefront of the
convergence of health and consumer and the market opportunity for that is massive.
Let me know if you would like to discuss any of this further.
All my best,
Hosain
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