Rudina Sesari of Glasswing Ventures explains why startup entrants will dominate new technology sectors over incumbent manufacturers.
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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 …”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Prediction Partly held up
Consumer robotics will take off with Jibo as the category leader
“I have a portfolio company in the interest of full disclosure called Jibo in the social robotics space that I seated a while ago, and I think that in, that the whole area and category of consumer robotics it's about to take off, and I clearly believe that Jibo…”
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.”