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Put Your Phone Away: Yondr CEO on the Philosophy Behind Phone-Free Spaces

Put Your Phone Away: Yondr CEO on the Philosophy Behind Phone-Free Spaces

Update: 2025-01-162
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They’re incredible pieces of technology, they’re unbelievably useful, and we feel lost without them. Nonetheless, smartphones have become the bane of our existence. So Graham Dugoni started Yondr with a surprisingly simple and analog solution to their ubiquity: locking pouches that force cell phone users to put away their device while still keeping their phones on them. Now, they’re used everywhere from comedy shows, to concerts, courtrooms, and weddings.


After the success of Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, more and more states and school districts are instituting cell-phone bans — and, oftentimes, Yondr is the first company they turn to when they need help. Kara and Graham talk about the push to ban phones from schools, the company’s success, and his philosophical take on smartphones, social media and technology.


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Put Your Phone Away: Yondr CEO on the Philosophy Behind Phone-Free Spaces

Put Your Phone Away: Yondr CEO on the Philosophy Behind Phone-Free Spaces

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