Sony

includes Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Ericsson W880i, Sony Walkman, Sony Pictures

3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benedict Evans · said 76 times in 33 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Benedict Evans (15), Steven Sinofsky (12), Kim Zetter (11), Marc Andreessen (8), Michael Copeland (5), Chris Dixon (5), John Riccitiello (3), Dave Turetsky (3)

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Everything said about Sony, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Opinion
Evans: Sony has been failing in consumer electronics for 20 years
“Sony has, you know, been failing in this for 20 years.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:10 a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sinofsky: Single-vendor smart home platform dominance is extremely unlikely
“So I think that it's a great strategy, and it drives a lot of interesting things, but the odds of this coalescing are very low, and that's why this notion, and the lesson from Sony, or RCA before it, or Whirlpool, they're all there. Like, Nobody ever came to g…”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:08 a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Dave Turetsky: Sony Sold Under 200,000 AIBO Units Before Exiting Robotics
“Sony sold fewer than 200,000 of these over the six year life of the product line. In January, 2006, they left the robotics business altogether.”
Dave Turetsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:35 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
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