Basu Trivedi: Autonomous transportation will drive trillions in consumer spend shifts
Nikhil Basu Trivedi · 20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures · Jun 1, 2016 · at 6:12
Nikhil Basu Trivedi, investor at Shasta Ventures, ranks consumer investment opportunities during a 2016 interview on 20VC.
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“I focus more on the consumer side at Shasta, and we do a mixture of consumer enterprise and connected hardware investing, and I think across, across those areas, there's a few categories that will lead to trillions of dollars of shift in spend for consumers over the next couple decades. I think housing and real estate is one of them. Healthcare and medicine is another. Consumer finance, a third. But if you had to push me to focus on one, I would go with autonomous transportation and self-driving cars, because I think that disruption in how we move around can have the largest impact across the most number of industries over the next couple decades.”
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