Rudina Sesari, founder and managing director of Glasswing Ventures, discloses her seed investment in social robotics startup Jibo when discussing emerging consumer AI categories.
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Artificial superintelligence is still 20 to 30 years away
“I think their entire, you know, there's a field of futurists who should do that, but I do think we're 2030 years away from that, and when we get there, I hope we will put the right parameters in place to make the right decisions.”
Opinion
Barriers to overcoming big tech data incumbencies are surprisingly low
“I do think that there are big data incumbencies, and I do think that they require, if you will, they're a challenge to overcome I do think that the barriers to overcome them are not so high. As previously mentioned, the incumbents oftentimes get in their own w…”
Opinion
The social and mobile technological revolution is completely over
“Then we see the social mobile wave, and that disruption, or that wave, in our view, the revolution is complete. There will be, there is evolutionary or incremental you know, improvements in nature, and we'll see new products, but from a transformational point …”
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The AI adoption cycle will be twice as fast as mobile
“We think that AI, the AI wave has already, in fact, begun. We're probably three, four years into it, and we expect that, as in prior waves, the adoption cycle for AI-powered products and platforms will be shorter. From the web to the social mobile, we saw adop…”
Insight
Startups create and win new categories, not legacy incumbents
“Again, I am a believer that it's startups or new entrants that create new categories rather than the legacy auto, you know, manufacturers that win.”
Insight
Large incumbent tech companies rarely succeed at self-disruption
“Well, behemoths and dinosaurs die slowly, so the ability for a large company to disrupt oneself is quite difficult. If they succeed in doing it, it's usually the exception, and I'm often hard-pressed to find such exceptions.”