Video Conferencing
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8 statements about Video Conferencing, every show
Andreessen: Ubiquitous video conferencing renders traditional immigration law less relevant
“With sort of sufficiently advanced, ubiquitous video conferencing all of a sudden immigration law becomes less relevant, right? Because like if, you know, it's perfectly legal to stream bits across the border even if it's not possible for people to move across…”
Joe Thomas: Required Meetings Correlate With Project Delays on Upwork
“They also said that any companies that provided a required meeting as part of their process actually significantly correlated to delays and slower project finish times, and so they even built a synchronous video conferencing product into their offering, and 57…”
Ridley: Without modern communication tools, governments couldn't have imposed COVID lockdowns
“If we didn't have all these social contact tools, then maybe we'd never have locked down. You know, we just couldn't do it. In which case, of course, the epidemic would have been worse. But to some extent, as it were the existence of the video conferencing and…”
Ariel Cohen: Video Conferencing Is Transactional and Eliminates Body Language
“Video conference, conferencing by definition is very transactional, right? You start a meeting, you end the meeting, you don't really know what happens in the five minutes afterwards, the five minutes before that, all of the body language, and so on.”
Subotovsky: Silicon Valley consensus believed video conferencing was a solved market
“I don't fault people here in the Valley for saying video conferencing is done. It's not going to happen again. It's a race to the bottom. There's no room for a new player.”
Sinha: Mandatory video meetings reduce interpersonal hostility between teams
“As soon as you required all of their meetings to be done over video And, you know, the thing that made it work was, it was easy to you, all that kind of stuff. But as soon as you got everyone to be able to just plug in and use video, everything softened. Becau…”
Eric Yuan estimates the video conferencing total addressable market at $20 billion
“Oh, in terms of TAM, I think it's huge. That's a, you know, a 20, twenty billion dollar market, so.”
Sutherland: Video conferencing would have sold better framed as executive phone calls
“Now, if you'd made video conferencing the way that chief executives made phone calls, I think you could have sold it much, much more. You could have made it the, you know something aspirational rather than you know, a poor as that substitute for something bett…”