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Beisel: Amazon will ship 20M to 40M Echo devices in 2017
“Somewhere between 20 to forty million are going to be Shipped in here in 2017.”
Beisel predicts 50 million voice-connected devices in homes by late 2017
“By the end of the year, literally, fifty million devices in people's homes are going to have that kind of connection.”
Beisel: NextView writes an investment memo for every seed deal
“We actually, at NextView, write an investment memo for every single seed investment we make.”
Beisel: NextView requires unanimous partner consent for follow-on investments
“For follow-on funding, we actually make it unanimous entirely.”
Beisel: Voice fragmentation creates opportunities for startups to build connective tissue
“A consumer in their bedroom or in their kitchen isn't going to want to talk to the different device differently, and so there's probably some area for startups to kind of be connective tissue around a cohesive experience.”