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Amazon’s Echo debuted 2 years after seeing another startup’s tech – Business Insider – Business Insider
Ubi creator Leor Grebler told the WSJ he thought Amazon wanted to acquire his startup when he shared proprietary information with the company in 2013.
Amazon has reportedly met with multiple tech entrepreneurs over the years to apparently discuss acquisitions and investments only to turn around and create strikingly similar products of their own, per a Thursday Wall Street Journal report.
One of those entrepreneurs was Leor Grebler, who launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and raised $36,000 for his voice-activated Ubi device. It landed on the market well ahead of Amazon Echo’s mid-2015 debut.
Grebler told the outlet he began meeting with…
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