Consumer Spending
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
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5 statements about Consumer Spending, every show
Roy: Mass Automation Will Depress Consumer Demand and Capital Raising
“If you're automating away the warehouse jobs, people don't need to buy more stuff. So you're not going to sell twice as many products. You're automating away more white collar work. So the amount of companies that actually need to raise capital becomes less. L…”
Friedberg: Uncontrolled gas prices always trigger recessionary cycles
“Unless you can get gas prices under control, that always, always has a massive impact on spending, on consumer spending, which drives a recessionary cycle.”
Sustained unemployment will cause widespread spending declines outside grocery and pharma
“If seventeen million people are out of work for six months or more, Spending is going to go down everywhere across almost every category, maybe other than grocery and pharma.”
Less than two percent of Nigerian consumer spending uses cards
“So, but just less than two percent of consumer spending is spent for cards.”
Basu Trivedi: Autonomous transportation will drive trillions in consumer spend shifts
“I focus more on the consumer side at Shasta, and we do a mixture of consumer enterprise and connected hardware investing, and I think across, across those areas, there's a few categories that will lead to trillions of dollars of shift in spend for consumers ov…”