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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon Alexa comes up
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:05 Mike Mignano I mean, I can remember 10 years ago when I got, you know, an Alexa in my home
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:04 Bret Taylor You look at what was it five or 10 years ago when ever Alexa was exploding and everyone's putting smart speakers on their kitchen counters.
Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:26 Gustav Söderström Is there an AI person like Alexa or, or do we actually, uh, is the UI that we digitize the real person with the real personality that exists?
Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:34 Clément Delangue So we actually started with some sort of a Tamagotchi AI or like AI friend, however you call it, some sort of like a Siri, Alexa or like ChatGPT, except just for like entertainment, not for like the boring, like productivity aspect of it.
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: The $1BN Amazon Acquisition; How Richard Branson Invested | 20VC #984 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:06 Jamie Siminoff Alexa, uh, they were just coming out with screens with Alexa. 2 times in the scene
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:25 Paul Davison And it's, it's a lot of work and, and it felt like it was going to grow quickly as a space because of AirPods and Alexa and text to speech and all sorts of other stuff.
- ▶ 13:16 Paul Davison Uh, I think it was Alexa.
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Prior to changing the world of community, Linda spent close to three years at Amazon as a senior product manager on AWS and Alexa.
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 16:39 Harry Stebbings That kind of boom of the conversational UI, and we've seen that from Alexa to Google Home.
- ▶ 23:38 Dennis Mortensen And you certainly kind of experience this, even just speaking to your Alexa or Google Assistant at home, where some things are, hey, just turning a little bit, uh, too cumbersome for something which is kind of rather simple.
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 11:52 Howard Lerman Probably Alexa is listening to everything as we say it.
- ▶ 23:46 Howard Lerman And the intelligent services of today, Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, Google Assistant, 2 times in the scene
20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
- ▶ 16:06 Jerry Chen It's why VCs are so excited about AR, VR, or smart homes like Alexa, or smart cars, or whatever, because they're net new nodes of distribution shifts.
20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend
- ▶ 11:40 Nicole Quinn And, you know, we're definitely seeing a strength from a current incumbent in the form of Amazon here, who's definitely done an excellent job of getting Alexa, Echo, Dot, and our show into our homes, you know, over twenty million at the… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 23:21 Renata Quintini Like if you look at, uh, what Amazon is doing with Alexa, they have not only for females working on it, but they have also a psychologist, uh,
20VC: How Both Founders & GPs Should Construct Their Pitch, Why VCs Are Eternal Optimists & What Makes The Best Post-Investment VC/Founder Relationship with Brian Ascher, Partner @ Venrock
- ▶ 22:20 Brian Ascher It's a company called Socrates, and what we're trying to do is be like Alexa for the enterprise.
20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- ▶ 20:31 John Borthwick And that components of that relate to NLP, NLU, AI, you know, chatbots, verbal computing, you know, Alexa, and things like that.
- ▶ 28:41 John Borthwick You know, for many years, primarily as a merchant, as a, um, you know, shopping site, and then I've developed a lot of respect for what he built at AWS, and now, you know, looking forward to, you know, what he's doing with Alexa, and, you…
20VC: Benchmark's Scott Belsky on What Makes Truly The Best VCs? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on 'The First Mile' & The Key Ingredients To The Perfect Onboarding Process
- ▶ 23:50 Scott Belsky Alexa is always listening.
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 13:58 Ted Blosser That's why they put huge investments in Alexa over these holidays.
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 19:08 Ryan Sarver You know, Amazon, I think, has shown that, has kind of jumped in line with things like Alexa.
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 20:44 Harry Stebbings What do you make of Amazon Alexa? 5 times in the scene
20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
- ▶ 21:48 Harry Stebbings And then, okay, let's talk about Amazon Alexa. 2 times in the scene