Web 2.0
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Acharya: Consumer AI resembles Web 2.0 distribution, not mobile app stores
“There's no app store for AI. So this actual product cycle for consumer looks more like Web two point O, where you have to kind of build the channel alongside the product and less like mobile, where you actually have the central point of distribution for the en…”
Adam D'Angelo: Network effects play a smaller role in AI than Web 2.0
“I think network effects are playing much less of a role now than they did in the web two era also, and that, that makes it easier for competitors to get started. There's still a scale advantage because, you know, if you have more users, you can get more data. …”
Adam D'Angelo: Subscriptions allow AI startups to monetize immediately without scale
“Like you couldn't build a good ad business until you got to 1,000,010 of millions of users. And now with subscriptions, you can just charge right away. I think especially thanks to things like Stripe that are making it easier. And so that, that, that's also ma…”
McCullough: Web 2.0 Was Enabled by Cheap Dot-Com Fiber Overbuild
“Web two point O happened because there was so much over build out of K fiber capacity that it was incredibly cheap for someone to create a Facebook and a dorm room.”
Hyatt: Web 2.0 was the wisdom of crowds; AI is the wisdom of experts
“I think web two point now was very much the kind of wisdom of crowds, and we're at an age where it's the wisdom of experts.”
Rauch: AI wave will yield major IPOs like Web 2.0
“My prediction is just like what happened with web two by now, where you have, because of the platform shift toward mobile and social, you have countless successful IPOs from that generation. You have the Ubers, you have the Airbnbs, you have the Facebooks. We'…”
Parr: Web3 is a circular economy that rarely beats Web 2.0 solutions
“My opinion on the web three is basically, it's a bunch of like, it's just this kind of circular economy of a bunch of people making, making products to serve an industry that has yet to like truly figure out, or I don't know what you call an industry, a moveme…”
Evans: Tech has fragmented into siloed conversations with no overlap
“It used to be that you basically, the thing was to understand what was happening in web two, and then the thing is to understand what was happening in smartphones. And now there's a fintech thing. So how do we think about the intersection of Square, which is n…”
Wood: Web3 adoption is an education challenge, not just technological
“It takes a lot of people to understand. It's an education problem as much as it is a technological problem. People have to, like, get their heads around what this is. Like, a lot of Web Two could have been built on the technologies that we had five or 10 years…”
Vaynerchuk: The NFT wave mirrors early Web 2.0 social media adoption
“It feels like web two O's beginning when nobody understood social media and content. That's exactly what's happening with NFTs.”