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"Hosain Rahman, who started Jawbone just out of Stanford University, wasn't originally aiming to create a consumer electronics company.  Initially, it set out to enable speech recognition on mobile phones (this was before Siri), and what they realized was that to make speech recognition work, they first had to solve the problem of background noise.  That led to the development of an industry-leading noise-elimination technology called NoiseAssassin, which now lies at the heart of all the company's audio products.\n\nSEE ALSO: Big Jambox Pumps Out Awesome, Ear-Splitting Audio [REVIEW]\nIn the interview above, Rahman shares how he founded Jawbone and what inspires him. While incognito, he often asks people at airports what they think of his products. He reveals that the company has almost \u201Cdied\u201D five times, and he shares why they started innovating in the health care realm.\nJawbone, named after the successful earpiece, most recently launched the Big Jambox speaker. Take a look at the interview \u2014 we definitely jammed out.\nMore Video from The Valley Girl Show\n\n\nWhy Startups Need to Hustle\nWhy Startups Need to Control Their Own Destinies\nWhy Sharing Is the New Search\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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