Deepinder Goyal took to X on Thursday to counter Indian doctors who criticised his brain-monitoring wearable Temple.

Defending the science behind the device, he said, “First and foremost, a business lesson: if Temple were a scam, and any of what we said weren't true, people would know it in just a few days of using Temple.”

He also said the device features a 14-day no-question return policy. “If the product doesn't work, it fails out of the gate and the company dies before recovering a tenth of its R&D," he said.

In the post, Goyal also highlighted that $30 million was invested in building the device, of which he put in $20 million of his personal money. 

Calling this as his purpose, he said that it's not about money. “I have enough of it to last for generations. My incentives are fully aligned with getting the science right. I am not staking a reputation earned over 20 years on making a quick buck.”

Goyal also compared Temple to Whoop, a fitness band launched in 2015. He argued that most wearable companies start with internal studies and that Whoop published its first validation a few years later. He also added that Temple had a higher standard.

"Pre-prints are a step prior to peer reviewed publications, and they are coming up."

Showing confidence in the product, he said, “We stand by our science and our methods.

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