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Opinion
Investing just to 'have a play' in hot sectors is bad advice
“So whether that's cryptocurrency, or Google Glass, or whatever the hot category is of that year, of that couple of years, I think it's not good advice to quote-unquote have a play in X category. Because if you are able to pick the best, that may be the company…”
Rich Wong Dec 4, 2017 ▶ 21:02 20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
Opinion
Siroker: Google Wave, Buzz, and Glass were technology in search of problems
“Google's notorious for building products that are technology in search of problems. Google Wave, Google Buzz, Google Glass, like, all of these products were basically some smart engineer or technologist starting the sentence with, Wouldn't it be cool if, dot, …”
Dan Siroker May 15, 2024 ▶ 1:00:42 Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Held up
Ahmed: Google Glass is doomed
“Doomed.”
Ifty Ahmed Jan 22, 2015 ▶ 16:17 20 VC 006: Google Glass & Founding Teams
Opinion
Ghoorah: Google Glass is a viable platform with strong developer backing
“Yeah, but I think the developer community is you know, strong, and I think it's a really viable platform but these things take time, that, you know, it's not an overnight thing.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 7:39 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
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