Consumer Space
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
We Live to Build 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
the MAD Podcast 
20VC
8 statements about Consumer Space, every show
Staniszewski: No consumer social product has successfully enabled AI today
“There's no yet, there's no product in the space on the consumer space that has like AI enabled in the right way. So in the, it's like, there's no AI social product today.”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI remains the clear consumer mindshare winner in AI
“OpenAI is still the clear winner in the consumer space in terms of mindshare.”
Nikesh Arora: Consumer tech product advantage window is under two years
“In the consumer space, I think to your point, That possibly is even a shorter window than two to three years.”
Rakshit: Investors are no longer offering high valuations for consumer startups
“Founders aren't super excited to build in the consumer space a lot. People are realizing that if I can't monetize a hundred million user base, might as well just wait it out because any B to C play requires you to spend marketing money and an investor isn't re…”
Enterprise software is harder than consumer due to multiple internal stakeholders
“The problem is hard to solve in the enterprise compared to the consumer space because in the enterprise you have multiple masters.”
Hale: Great technical teams face far less competition in unsexy markets than consumer software
“If you were a really great product technical team, and you're entering an unsexy space that's good, because you're entering a space with like less competitors. Those who are like great product teams, but entering in like Consumer spaces. It's like, my God, tha…”
Consumer startups reach profitability on $4M to $8M
“These companies in the consumer space, they tend to get to profitability by raising four to eight million dollars. Not 50 to eighty million dollars, as they do in the tech space.”