Lift Labs joins Google X

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by mikeevans • 12 years ago

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pushedx• 12 years ago

An inspiring video from a young man with this condition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrWgGj9strs

mik3y• 12 years ago

Prev HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7752528

Congratulations to Anupam and team!

BorisMelnik• 12 years ago

I am so happy to hear about this, and about Lift in general. I've had a number of loved ones effected by this and seeing products that make life even a little bit easier is just really cool.

wastedhours• 12 years ago

To my shame I'd never heard of this product before, but looks like epic work. Congrats on heading to X!

jwr2• 12 years ago

Lately, as I hear of extremely-cool startups being acquired by Google, I feel rather sad. I would much rather see them succeed on their own, than disappear into the belly of Google. And I really can't see how Google, which is an advertising company, can bring value to this acquisition.

mousa• 12 years ago

You can't see how a company with a bottomless pocket and the most computing resources can help them achieve their goals?

laxatives• 12 years ago

You don't think Waze has gotten significantly worse since they were acquired by Google?

jwr2• 12 years ago

No.

Sure, they can do research on cool stuff. But do you see Google selling and distributing these utensils anytime soon?

In other words, will this acquisition put more useful devices in the hands of those who badly need them?

I don't think so.

baldfat• 12 years ago

Actually Google has a HUGE interest in healthcare and longevity. This totally makes sense for them.

lnanek2• 12 years ago

Yes, but have they ever managed to do anything good in the space? Google Health crashed and burned remember. Lift Labs could have found a better company to work with just by going to single Standford medicine and tech event, of which there are dozens...

robg4• 12 years ago

100% chance of success vs. something much lower than that. Building hardware is hard enough. Jumping through the medical regulations is something else.

k-mcgrady• 12 years ago

Is this related to the Lift startup that makes the habits app or are they just named the same?

lepht• 12 years ago

That was my initial thought/worry as well, but it looks like Lift.app is safe from Google acquistruction for now: 'Lift Labs'[0] is the creator of a spoon that helps parkinson's victims eat, and the bottom of the Lift.app website[1] gives the company name 'Lift Worldwide',

[0] http://www.liftlabsdesign.com/ [1]: https://www.lift.do/

tonystubblebine• 12 years ago

I'm so glad this worried you! I'm the @liftapp founder. When we started there were no startups named Lift. Now the world is rich with L(i/y)fts. It's insane. Things look good for us (as in we have runway and revenue), so I don't think you'll be seeing any acquisition news from us.

FWIW, here's the email where we decided on the name and specifically went looking for other people using it: http://www.quora.com/Lift-app/How-did-Lift-app-get-its-name

robg4• 12 years ago

Awesome news! Congrats to a great team.

Lift Labs joins Google X

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