consumers

“The brands in many cases don't even know what the consumer is buying, and they certainly don't know who the consumer is that is buying.”

“And, you know, and a lot of people thinks the merchants pay that. I believe the consumer pays that, you know, just because the merchants pass on the cost, you know, for their profit margins.”

“Consumers like who use bad passwords, like ought to be held liable for the consequence. Like consumers at some point, like at some point as an adult, you learn that when you leave your house at night, you lock the door, right? Consumers at some point are going…”

“Just for contrast, in to 1999, about eighty billion photos were taken by consumers on film.”

“Oh, I think more so true today than ever before, because there's so many different types of intangible goods. You're kind of hit, like, if you were to pay full price for every iPhone app that you ever touched, it's like, you'd be paying five dollars every day …”

“Well, if it goes to the merchant, then it will go to the consumer. And it might not be a complete hundred percent pass through, but I'd say that the transfer of wealth will make it its way to the consumer. It just always does.”

“UGC is very difficult at the moment, but it will be, it will transform an industry of consumers capturing memories and replaying them.”

“Every argument for building consumer product always comes back to how can you sell a premium product with subpar image quality? Because image quality is the number one criteria for every single consumer.”

“Most of the consumers, most of government, isn't going to need to know that it's running on a distributive ledger rails.”

“Well, the interesting thing there is that it's kind of a double moat that protects them, because not only do they have a network effect, but they also have this bizarre incentive where if a 2.5% fee is being charged to the merchant, well, the consumer is being…”

“And actually, you know, in Australia, where interchange went down dramatically, it's like 50 basis points. Rewards went away. You didn't get your miles anymore. And then it was a giant transfer of wealth from the banks to the merchants, but none of that went b…”

“We could build a portal where they come back, but no, we couldn't because they didn't really know who we were. Like they knew Geico, they knew WinZip, and that's one of the other reasons why at least where the C at the end of the B to B to C Is a consumer. Thi…”

“There's a new guard for how consumers are thinking about large dollar fixed asset investments, which is they are solving for use, experience, and ultimately access.”

“Affordability will become even more prominent of a focus. And as a result, I believe that consumers will be willing to sever longstanding provider relationships in the name of affordability and access.”

“I think people will have assistance in courtrooms. I think that consumer rights, they'll have AI general counsels sitting on their shoulder, making sure that these companies aren't ripping them off, and it will just create a more efficient world where companie…”

“But it's just interesting to see that the ticket marketplace is still very transaction focused. Consumers are not loyal. They're loyal to price.”

“But you need to anticipate consumers' behavior, and you need to get there before they're there, and then when you're there, you need to guide them and teach them how to consume your content in a new way.”

“When technology is allowed to work, it's magic. Like prices crash in a way that's just great for consumers and it's equivalent of a giant, basically, you know, when prices drop is equivalent of a raise.”

“In the future, you're gonna see consumer span to be like food rent software.”

“I think a lot of sectors economy look like this, where we're like, we're assuming people will care about having a human, but in fact, they will not.”

“So generally when technology is introduced, you see a surplus and most of that typically goes back to the consumer.”

“Google's top SKU is 250 a month. Grox is 300 a month. I don't think we've ever seen a time where consumers were paying those kinds of prices.”

“This is probably going to be happening more and more, From the research side of things all the way to making purchases probably agentically when prices are right”

“Allow for automatic action on information. Like, people will do that, because we have observed that behavior today.”

“So, you know, socialism with Chinese characteristics also means to me investors and companies kind of lose. They're pretty miserable. Consumers win, and the national government wins.”

“And now because consumers are paying for software, because anybody can make software, I think we're going to see this like renaissance of people creating million dollar run rate businesses as individuals.”

“And then look, I think the second thing is software can do so much more for us than it could five years ago. Like it's incredibly ambitious. So sure. Maybe I'll have more subscriptions, but the parts of my life that are addressed by software are so much more s…”

“We don't see a way that consumers will use this daily rather than weekly with the technology we have right now.”