Smartphone Industry

topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes

WTF is with Nikhil Kamath the a16z Podcast

4 statements about Smartphone Industry, every show

WTF Insight
Pei: Smartphone Startups Only Need a Niche Fanbase Given Market Size
“We don't have to have everybody love us. It's okay if 90% of people don't care about us or hate us, as long as we get a niche group of consumers who really love us. That works in our industry because it's so big. Maybe it doesn't work for smaller categories.”
Carl Pei Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 15:28 Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
WTF Opinion
Carl Pei: Every Smartphone User Need Has Been Fully Explored
“I think we're at a stage in the industry where it's hyper competitive. Every user need has been fully explored.”
Carl Pei Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 49:02 Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Pei: Every smartphone startup in the last decade has failed
“In the last 10 years, there's been a couple of teams who tried to break into our space, well-funded and less well-funded and everybody's failed.”
Carl Pei Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 3:01 Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
a16z Disclosure
Boris Sofman: Anki Built Early Consumer Robots Using Smartphone Components
“We basically became for our early products scavengers of the smartphone industry. So you have computation, you have memory, you have cameras that now suddenly cost You know, 50 cents versus, you know, six dollars.”
Boris Soffman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:07 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots

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