Consumer Technology
topic on 3 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
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7 statements about Consumer Technology, every show
Moore: Teenage Girls Are the Best Leading Indicator for Consumer Tech
“I feel like, ah, teenage girls are like the best source of what is happening in the consumer and what will be happening in the consumer. If you look at all of the biggest consumer outcomes, like, they were the early adopters of all of these products.”
Skates: Gaming is the best indicator for future consumer technology
“Games is an area that's probably the most advanced and digitally native. And I think in general, it's always a good place to look for the future of consumer technology.”
Lemkin: Enterprise software trends lag consumer technology by 4 to 5 years
“Maybe everything in enterprise sometimes is four to five years later than consumer.”
Tisch: Gen Z is not using products built by Gen Z founders
“The youngest demographic that is active on technology, so call it the, like, 18 to 25 year old demo, is not using a product that's built by somebody of their generation.”
Negative sentiment makes now a great time to invest in consumer tech
“I don't think so. I think that I would say enough people are down on consumer now. It's a good time to be contrarian on consumer.”
Hamid: Kleiner Perkins' fund focuses primarily on enterprise and consumer
“Sector-wise, broadly speaking, our focus areas are Enterprise, consumer, fintech, and hard tech, and there's split across those sectors, enterprise being the biggest one, consumer being the second biggest”
Enterprise communication tools lag consumer tech and remain in the first inning
“Capitalization of the enterprise and low friction tools to allow employees to better talk to each other, to better talk to their vendors, and to better talk to their customers is still really in the first ending, and it's far behind consumer technology, so I t…”