About Joby
The intersection of utility and delight
Here at Joby, we have two jobs: solving your problems and making you smile. We design and manufacture fresh, insanely useful product solutions to support your needs and delight your senses.
It starts with a great idea
We know what you are thinking. Tripods and headsets? Why do we make such a diverse set of products? Well, for us, great product design is about solving problems, and inspiration can strike anywhere. Take the Gorillapod Original. While he was in graduate school over a decade ago, Joby’s founder, JoeBen, was tasked with developing a camera tripod. Never the one to stand for status quo, he questioned whether a level surface was the best vantage point for every shot. Given that there are no straight lines in nature, finding a level surface was limiting. Also, why did the tripod legs have to be straight? So instead of creating another tripod that constantly struggled against its environment, he developed a concept that perfectly adapted to nature’s curves.
The Zivio Boom headset was borne out of our frustration with the assortment of premium Bluetooth headsets available on the market. When you are traveling as much as we travel, always on the phone, always on-the-go, you are in serious need of a headset that works. There had to be a simpler, more effective way to handle background noise elimination. In the development of the Zivio, we asked a lot of questions: Instead of over-engineering, why not just bring the microphone to the mouth? Why does it have to be either battery life or small size? Why does a headset have to be ugly? Can a headset be so comfortable you forget that it is even there?
“Why didn’t I think of that?”
For us, elegantly simple approaches to complex problems are always best. We believe in disrupting convention and redefining categories. There is no sound sweeter than a customer exhaling and exclaiming “finally!”
A user-centric approach to design
It’s an obsession, really. We make products that we crave and will use, and we are relentless about their perfection. So relentless that, 75 iterations later, we are just getting it right. Iteration is a way of life because we believe that none of us should have to settle for inadequate products. And the small stuff, whether a dual-USB port charger that allows you to charge your phone along with your headset or a quick-release mechanism that allows you to attach your camera in a snap, can showcase big ideas as well.
Fanatical about customer service
Our bottom line is not defined in dollars and cents, but in thank-you emails and recommendations. We want to make our customers happy. Anything less than complete satisfaction would be our failure. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, we want to hear from you. Please contact us any time.
Since its inception in 2005, Joby, Inc. has established itself as a leader in the design and development of innovative products for the consumer electronics market. Founded by serial entrepreneur JoeBen Bevirt and led by investor-turned-manager Forrest Baringer-Jones along with a team of talented individuals with a diverse set of backgrounds, the Company has continually broken boundaries to bring to market one-of-a-kind product solutions to improve consumers’ lives.
A member of 1% for the Planet , Joby is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with offices in Santa Cruz, CA; Geneva, Switzerland; and Shenzhen, China.
Locations
San Francisco (Headquarters)
1535 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA
Santa Cruz
1010 Fair Ave.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
USA
Joby EMEA
6 Rue Emile Yung
CH 1205 Geneva
Switzerland
Shenzhen, China
3069 Cai Tian Road, Tower A
Galaxy Century Building
Fu Tian District