Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters! My name is Andrew Warner. I am the founder of Mixergy.com. I say with pride. Oh, it feels so good to be a founder. It also feels a lot of pain sometimes too, where you have to figure things out on your own; you have to suffer through a lot of setbacks. One of the reasons why I do these interviews is because I want to learn from other entrepreneurs and I want you to learn along with me how they overcame their setbacks so that we can be armed for when we have those big challenges in life. And that happened to today’s entrepreneur, as you will see.
This is the story of how paying attention to the problems of visually impaired people helped the Mixergy fan launch a hit product. Hyungsoo Kim is the founder of Eone Timepieces. They make beautiful tactile watches that allow you to tell time without looking at them. You can just run your fingers on them and see what time it is. In fact, they probably don’t want me to even call it a...