Shopping
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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the a16z Podcast
4 statements about Shopping, every show
Ramaswamy: Why Google Failed in Shopping and Travel
“Google, for example, stopped that information. God knows I spent enough time trying to get into physical things like shopping or airline purchases or hotels. We didn't really succeed because we didn't have core competence really in some fundamental way beyond …”
Gary Vaynerchuk: All consumer shopping will eventually be done by AI
“I think all of shopping will be done by agents for you based on your behaviors. Like, it will know better that you wanted that outfit than you knew.”
Zach Cohen: Whatnot turns shopping into entertainment rather than transactional utility
“Specifically what not. Which is actually making shopping more of an entertainment product and less of a transaction product.”
Caplan: Voters avoid direct mistake costs, unlike consumers who shop
“There's a fundamental difference between shopping and voting. When shopping, if you make a mistake, you pay the price. Where in voting, if you make a mistake, you were just tipping the scales a little bit towards all of society having a worse outcome.”