Samsung

includes Samsung Electronics, Samsung Gear VR

7 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jun 1, 2015 by Jason Calacanis · said 45 times in 30 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Everything said about Samsung, oldest first

Jun 1, 2015 bullish
Opinion
Jason Calacanis: Smartphone supply chain advances are driving drone convergence
“Drones, three-D printing, and virtual reality and machine learning and the on-demand economy, these, like, sort of trends are all starting to merge and sort of build off each other, and really build off the back of smartphones, whether it's the sensors in the …”
Jason Calacanis Jun 1, 2015 ▶ 40:30 Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
Nov 5, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smartphone wars created the low-cost component supply chain for consumer IoT
“Because of the smartphone wars, the war between Apple and Samsung and Google and Nokia and Blackberry, a lot of the components that you find in a... Everyone was trying to get a low-cost camera, low-cost accelerometers, low-cost Bluetooth chips and Wi-Fi chips…”
Avidan Ross Nov 5, 2018 ▶ 8:31 20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
Oct 6, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Feldman: TSMC fab expansion speed bottlenecks global AI chip supply
“TSMC can't build fabs fast enough. I think the truth is, is that these are both for TSMC and Samsung. These fabs are the most amazing manufacturing plants on the planet. And, you know, these are 30,000,000,050 billion dollar factories. And the, their ability t…”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 43:23 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 6, 2025 negative
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Local fire ordinances delayed Samsung's Texas fab by up to 10 months
“Samsung built a fab in Texas, and they had to change the design of a fab because they had local fire ordinance. And the U.S. Government worked for years to get deployment of billions of dollars in taxes, and a local fire ordinance set them back eight months, 1…”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 58:47 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 26, 2026 positive
Opinion
Feldman argues TSMC, ASML, and Samsung are effective semiconductor supply chain chokepoints
“I think the chip industry Requires you to go through TSMC, and TSMC requires you to go through ASML or Samsung. I think there are reasonable choke points to manage those challenges.”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 46:41 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 26, 2026 positive
Opinion
Feldman proposes granting TSMC and Samsung 20-year exemptions from local US ordinances
“I would allow TSMC and Samsung both to a 20 year period free from all local and legal, local ordinances, all of them, to build fabs in their desired location in the US.”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 49:10 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 16, 2026
Assertion Supported
O'Driscoll: Samsung and SK Hynix comprise 60% of South Korea's stock market
“The two memory companies dominate the Korean stock market. They are, the two companies, Samsung and Hynix, are 60% of the stock market. And roughly a 120% of the GDP in terms of market cap.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 37:56 Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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