smartphone industry

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Boris Soffman · across every show →

Everything said about smartphone industry, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Boris Sofman: Anki Built Early Consumer Robots Using Smartphone Components
“We basically became for our early products scavengers of the smartphone industry. So you have computation, you have memory, you have cameras that now suddenly cost You know, 50 cents versus, you know, six dollars.”
Boris Soffman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:07 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
Apr 6, 2023 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Pei: Every smartphone startup in the last decade has failed
“In the last 10 years, there's been a couple of teams who tried to break into our space, well-funded and less well-funded and everybody's failed.”
Carl Pei Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 3:01 Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
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