Connie Chan
32 statements across 14 episodes · 23 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2018 by Connie Chan · said 12 times in 7 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2019 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns?
- a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- The a16z Pitch Room: Sandbox VR
- a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
- a16z Podcast | Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about Connie Chan, oldest first
Jan 13, 2018 bullish
Jan 13, 2018 positive
May 15, 2018 positive
Dec 5, 2018 negative
Dec 5, 2018 positive
Dec 5, 2018 negative
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Chan: Communication features make apps indispensable, unlike entertainment
“I think communication is what makes it an indispensable application. Entertainment is much more you can take a break from it. You don't need it every single day, but communication is something that's very hard to give up even for a short period of time.”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Chan: Switching internal app tabs is superior to OS-level app navigation
“I find that less of a hassle than closing out an application, swiping my screen to the next grid of different applications, finding the right one, and then doing whatever I need to do, and then closing that application and going back. So navigating. Yeah, navi…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Chan: Local marketing and distribution decide foreign markets after tech parity
“Both of them need to have a baseline level of tech and logistics is one I think where there's a lot of tech involved. On top of that though, after their baseline tech is met, I think then it comes down to marketing partnerships, Distribution and things like th…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019
Chan: Typing Pinyin Chinese is not slower than English mobile typing
“A lot of people use that as an excuse though for why people don't like to type Chinese on a keyword, but I don't think that's actually the case for a lot of the top tier cities there anymore. Typing and pinging is It's not that much slower than typing in Engli…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Feb 2, 2019 neutral
Feb 2, 2019 bullish
Chan: China's online education market to hit 300M users by 2020
“IResearch says that right now online education in China is a hundred fifty million users and expected to grow to nearly three hundred million by year 2020. It's a forty billion dollar industry expected to grow to seventy billion dollars.”
Feb 2, 2019 bearish
Feb 2, 2019
Jan 23, 2020 bullish
Jan 23, 2020 bullish
Jan 23, 2020 bullish
Jan 25, 2023 bullish
Jan 25, 2023 bullish
Jan 25, 2023 bullish
Mar 23, 2023 positive
Chan: Personalization will overcome lack of explicit shopping intent on social apps
“I actually don't buy that like, oh, I don't have the intent of shopping when I go there. I think that changes. I think consumer behavior changes as long as the recommendations and the personalizations are good enough.”
Mar 23, 2023
Chan: New marketplaces win through unique supply, pricing, or experience
“When you want to build a new marketplace, you either have brand new, unique supply that no one else has. Or you have better pricing that no one else has. That's Timu. Or you have just a much better fun experience, and that's what not. If you deliver something …”
Mar 23, 2023 bullish
Chan: Incumbent social platforms will expand into e-commerce to drive ad revenue
“I think a lot of these large Platforms are all going to figure out they want to dabble into commerce, and there's so many benefits if they do that. It actually drives their advertising engines, because now that you have a commerce layer, the supply generally i…”
Mar 23, 2023 bullish
Apr 14, 2023 bullish
Apr 14, 2023 positive
Apr 19, 2023 positive
Apr 19, 2023 bullish
Chan: Massive market sizes justify venture funding for competing startups
“Because the market's so big The pie is so large that it does actually warrant that crazy risk taking, that even if a company is already doing well, I might just give a ton of money to another competitor because if they win, the pie is so much bigger.”