Glasses

topic on 12 shows · 15 statements across 15 episodes

Acquired Another Podcast Cheeky Pint the Startup Ideas Podcast A Product Market Fit Show Sourcery How I Built This the a16z Podcast All-In TBPN 20VC David Senra

15 statements about Glasses, every show

CHEEKY PINT Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mainstream adoption of fully enclosed VR headsets is unrealistic
“VR may have a specialized role, you know, for more immersive training environments or things like that. Yeah, but even then, I think folks really are going to want to be able to wear glasses and work together, right? I mean, you're going to want to be able to …”
Evan Spiegel Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 12:04 What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
Iovine: Meta and Ray-Ban made a good smart glasses product
“I don't know this company. I don't know the guy. I don't know anything, but I try to pair in those new Facebook Ray-Ban glasses. They made a good product.”
Jimmy Iovine Feb 1, 2026 ▶ 1:08:31 Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Blumenthal: The Average American Buys Glasses Once Every Two Years
“The average American buys glasses once every two years.”
Neil Blumenthal Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 10:20 Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
TBPN Insight
Wang: Smart Glasses Are the Natural Delivery Mechanism for Superintelligence
“Glasses are the natural delivery mechanism for super intelligence. Like the, it is, you need something that will see what you see, hear what you hear, and they can easily deliver information to you.”
Alexander Wang Sep 20, 2025 ▶ 18:25 Mark Zuckerberg, James Cameron, Andrew Yang and More - TBPN Top 5
SOURCERY Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2028
Cohen: Jony Ive and Sam Altman will announce AI glasses
“I think it's gonna be a pair of glasses. I think, like, that's the only form function that my, again, like, Johnny genuinely, like, understands the future, I think, of, god, I'm, like, going into acting mode, but, like, he genuinely understands the like, hardw…”
Alex Cohen Sep 4, 2025 ▶ 53:03 Meme Lord CEO Raises $22.5M Series A for Hello Patient · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Roy Lee: Immediate AI opportunity is on desktop, not VR or glasses
“Everyone thinks it's some people think it's VR, some people think it's glasses, some people think it's pendants, and I think right now there's so much money to be made in the computer, and right now, I think it all starts at the computer, so that's where we're…”
Roy Lee Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 1:52 He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely · PMF Show
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Isaacson predicts smart glasses will use phones for compute, not on-device hardware
“I do think that the phone will be the driving compute for whatever the glasses are. I don't think that the compute is going to be happening on the glasses.”
Hunter Isaacson Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 38:54 His 250M+ App Download Blueprint (Full Strategy)
a16z Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2028
Kumar: Sesame is actively developing smart glasses for its AI companions
“We mentioned on the website and we mentioned some of our launch content that we are working towards glasses as a form factor for Companions, or kind of this companion interface”
Ankit Kumar Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 30:33 Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
TBPN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Coogan: Smart glasses will become the next major computing platform
“And I do think there is something legitimate about the sunglass and the glasses being, like, the next computing platform, the next, like, major consumer hardware category”
John Coogan Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 16:37 Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2029
Isenberg: AI will enable real-time 1-of-1 personalized ads on AR and mobile
“So it only makes sense that with AI that AI is going to make the ability to create one of one ads that are gonna show up on your glasses, on mobile, on, on web, in real time.”
Greg Isenberg Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 12:12 How Creators Can Thrive in the AI + AR Era (Samir from Colin and Samir)
ACQUIRED Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zuckerberg: AR and AI smart glasses will become completely ubiquitous
“I'm pretty sure glasses and kind of, like, holographic presence and AR is going to be a completely ubiquitous Product, right? It's just like everyone who had a phone before replaced it with a smartphone, and then a lot of more people got smartphones. If all we…”
Mark Zuckerberg Sep 30, 2024 ▶ 2:02:31 Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
ALL-IN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: AR glasses will take over a third of computing tasks
“And I bet you glasses are going to take like a third of the tasks you do.”
Jason Calacanis Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 59:08 OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brody: Augmented reality will find its true essence through glasses
“I think ultimately augmented reality will find its true essence through glasses.”
Jack Brody Apr 26, 2023 ▶ 54:48 Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ANOTHER PODCAST Prediction Open · timeframe May 2032
Evans: Billions using smart glasses as primary computing is a decade away
“And the same thing for quote-unquote metaverse, which is, you know, what point do we think we might have billions of people wearing something that looked like a pair of glasses as their main or only computing experience? And is that, that, and that's a sort of…”
Benedict Evans May 16, 2022 ▶ 1:23 Metaverse - how to be wrong in the right way
Apple uses iPhone AR features as building blocks for future smart glasses
“But you, but for glasses, clearly what they're doing is they're building that building block in the glass, in the phone, so that it's ready when they have the glasses.”
Benedict Evans Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 29:56 What the Apple and Facebook events tell us about their product cycles

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