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The era of the 1,000-store retail brand is permanently over
“The era of the thousand store brand is over, and I just don't think it's coming back.”
Consumer retail brands will not achieve $10 billion software-style exits
“What I don't think you'll see is the ten billion dollar exits that typically you see in true software, both enterprise and consumer software businesses, and like we look for out of our real estate technology fund,”
Legacy retail giants will be replaced by hundreds of niche brands
“I think we're not going to have the gaps and the banana republics and the major brands of the era previously replaced by five to 10 new brands, but instead they'll be replaced by hundreds of brands.”
Airport parking will be largely obsolete by 2027 due to AVs
“No one's going to park a car at an airport probably in 10 years, or very few people will.”
Real estate valuations will react to AVs well before mass adoption
“Even though the mass adoption might not happen for a long time now, I think the impact on real estate could happen on a much more accelerated basis.”
Wallace: Corporate VC will exceed 50% of all venture dollars by 2031
“And I expect that sometime over the next decade, it'll be more than half.”
Wallace: Proptech sector will grow 10x to 20x from current levels
“Prop tech is 10 to 20 X from here.”
Proptech adoption will expand for a decade, creating trillion-dollar markets
“You're not just talking about opportunities in the billions of dollars with enormous total addressable markets. You're talking about opportunities in the trillions of dollars. So I think this is a trend that will go on for probably the next decade, frankly.”
Future retail expansion will focus on market density over total store count
“So I think just generally the whole nature of how you expand into brick and mortar retail, Is going to change. It's going to both densify, it's going to be fewer stores, but I think within the major markets, you actually might have more stores than you did pre…”