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Autonomous vehicle R&D dividends will transform all physical industries
“There's Going to be more value generated from the piece dividends of the autonomous car war. What I mean to say is that every industry in the world that needs to physically articulate the world around it is going to benefit from all of that technology stack, t…”
Avidan Ross Nov 5, 2018 ▶ 17:08 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
Insight
Root Ventures evaluates hardware investments fundamentally as software companies
“We look at our hardware investments as actually software companies at their core. The definition of These companies is often that the software is the differentiator, but we also make a lot of investments purely in software companies.”
Avidan Ross Nov 5, 2018 ▶ 14:07 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
Insight
B2B startups should land on immediate ROI, then expand via data
“The Trojan horse idea is you bring something into the customer that has a clear ROI, but once they've adopted it, Then you can start upselling them or taking advantage of the data you're collecting from being inside of that company or that industry.”
Avidan Ross Nov 5, 2018 ▶ 21:15 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
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Root Ventures avoids hardware startups relying solely on product margins
“We won't invest in something that relies just on margin alone. From our perspective, that's not a venture scalable business.”
Avidan Ross Nov 5, 2018 ▶ 11:19 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
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