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Fadell: Ambient smart home AI requires distributed, privacy-preserving physical sensors
“AI needs context. AI needs a lot of context. And in a home, you want to make everything very seamless. And the way you get best context is by having sensors properly placed around the home that don't necessarily invade privacy, but allow you to pick up a lot o…”
Ross: Most US homes are commodities accurately valued sight-unseen
“Most homes are not like pieces of art. Most homes in the country are not like your home. They're sort of commodity. They're closer to like a standard skew than a kind of one-off thing. And so you can value them sight unseen much more accurately than someone wh…”
Nejatian: Mispriced asset trading cannot scale into a big business
“You only buy homes that are mispriced, but turns out not that much in the world is mispriced for a very long time. And that just becomes a, I mean, it may become a good business, just won't become a big business.”
Friedberg: Restricting institutional home purchases will be a key political issue
“That's one that I think is going to be a pretty popular point that's going to come up in the next year or two, particularly in the next election cycle.”
Wolf: 90% of healthcare will soon be delivered at home via phones
“90% of health care is going to be delivered probably from your phone and in your home.”
Lebaredian: Homes will be the last place humanoid robots appear
“I think the last place we're going to start seeing humanoids show up is in our homes.”
Hannun: Geothermal ground loops last as long as the home
“Whereas if you invest in putting in ground loops, and we can talk a little bit more about what that entails, but if you invest in that infrastructure so that you can access all of that free heating energy that's already in your yard, then you can draw on it es…”
Neumann: Construction tech company ICON can build a home in four days
“There's a construction company here called Icon that's using technology that the government is going to need to partner with them at some point, because they have found ways to build a home In four days, that used to take, ah, that used to take a year and a ha…”
Lim: Most homeowners hold majority of net worth in a single house
“Most homeowners, they have most of their net worth tied up in their home. That's like having a stock portfolio with a single asset.”
Shah: Fashion and home retail are uniquely driven by massive selection
“There's only a couple categories where a huge selection, ah, is really a key piece, where visual and aesthetic considerations are very paramount, where people want unique items, and the two are really fashion and home.”
Xu: Design Trends Flow From Fine Art to Fashion to Home Decor
“So it started from a very high level of art, and then it trickles down to fashion, and finally it goes to home.”
Consumers pay for reviews on high-cost-of-failure home improvement decisions
“And if you think about the kind of decisions they're making around your home, I mean, these, you know, I call these like the high cost of failure decisions, right? I mean, it's a time when you probably know the least about what you're buying. You're spending a…”