Sonal Chokshi

8 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Sonal Chokshi · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Chokshi: Fragmented podcast analytics tools cause creators to miss key insights
“When it's something where you have a hodgepodge of very different tools, and one tool will measure RSS, and one won't, and another will include demographics, and another won't, you're just, there's just a lot of insight, I think, that people miss.”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:41 a16z Podcast | A Podcast about Podcasts
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Chokshi: Startup valuations have grown too large for corporate acquisition strategies
“These big companies, which before could have quickly acquired startups to help them do some of these things, now those companies get too big. They reaches a point where their market cap is too big. We've observed this for them to even consider affording the ab…”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:56 a16z Podcast | Beyond Lean Startups
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Chokshi: Legacy companies struggle to become SaaS due to organizational structure
“One of the theses that we've put forth is that it's actually very difficult for a non-software-as-a-service company to actually become a software-as-a-service company because it requires completely re-architecting everything from the ground up, from your sales…”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:33 a16z Podcast | On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Sonal Chokshi: Productivity compounding from mobile technology has barely begun
“I think there's going to be this compounding. We're actually at the very beginning. Like, when people talk about the mobile phone and this arrival, it's not the end. It's the beginning, and the compounding effect hasn't even begun yet.”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:53 a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
Jan 2, 2019 positive
What-if
Chokshi: Restricting early internet commerce would have destroyed modern tech economy
“And if people had said like from the very get go, cause no one predicted the internet would lead to all these different businesses. And to be able to say then like, oh, but we have to proscribe the use of it for commerce. It wouldn't have created this economy …”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:31 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Chokshi: Network effects, not patents, provide defensible moats in software
“In our business and software, obviously there is a complex matrix of patents in some cases where you really need it. But At the end of the day, a lot of the defensibility and moats, we're looking at our network effects.”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:02 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chokshi: Netflix reshapes cultural consumption through on-demand catalog lock-in
“It's already working on some level because you might have a million other movies out there, but you really don't care because you only care about what's in the Netflix catalog because you're Being able to binge watch and get it on demand in the moment. So it's…”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:47 a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Chokshi: Mainstream media dilutes expertise by relying on third-person reporting
“Media dilutes expertise with third party, third person voice. Yeah. There should always be first person voice for experts.”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:18 a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
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