{"id":1280,"date":"2020-10-01T20:44:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T03:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2020-10-01T20:44:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T03:44:20","slug":"joe-lemay-co-founder-ceo-of-rocketbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/10\/01\/joe-lemay-co-founder-ceo-of-rocketbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Lemay: Co-Founder &amp; CEO of Rocketbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rocketbook is bringing old technology and merging it with new technology. The main product at Rocketbook is a notebook, which you write in like a normal book, but then with a specific app you can upload each page to the web, to such applications as Google Drive. Then when you are done with the page, you place it in the microwave and the pages are wiped clean, all to be reused again. Moreover, they now have a variety of items on their site and they are even giving free pages away, which allow for you to scan pages through their app. Joe Lemay, along with the other founder, Jake Epstein, brought the idea of this notebook to Shark Tank in 2017, but failed after offering 10% of the company for $400 000. They then went on to Kickstarter, where they set a goal of $26 000 and raised $1.8 million. Rocketbook has now obtained the title of the number one selling notebook on Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe is from Boston, he attended MIT and Cornell; prior to his venture he worked Salesforce, and his idea came about due to him bringing the incorrect book to a meeting. Joe and his co-founder were old friends and they continue to be a team today. In looking at the website for this product it can be difficult to find out much about the team that Joe and Jake have built around them, however you can see that it is a team that is community driven as there are several images of them doing activities throughout the Boston area, and most importantly, it is a team. Again, to support this last statement, there are several images of members doing activities together, whether it is work related or just building connections outside of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocketbook is bringing old technology and merging it with new technology. The main product at Rocketbook is a notebook, which you write in like a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/10\/01\/joe-lemay-co-founder-ceo-of-rocketbook\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joe Lemay: Co-Founder &amp; CEO of Rocketbook<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71781,"featured_media":1281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founders-parade","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}