Wi Fi
topic on 8 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes · said 8 times in 6 episodes since 2016
Top Founders 3 
the Pitch 2 
the a16z Podcast 2 
All-In 1 
We Live to Build 
American Optimist 
Catalyst 
How I Built This
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Failing to Deliver Wireless Audio Radically Shrinks the Consumer Addressable Market
“If you didn't deliver an experience wirelessly, you just weren't, you shrunk the market tremendously”
Tade Oyerinde: Campus gives every student a laptop and subsidizes Wi-Fi
“Instead of a MetroCard, because most of our students are fully online, we give every student a laptop, and we pay about a third of their Wi-Fi bills if their Wi-Fi is too, too slow or unreliable.”
Weisbrot: Wi-Fi light bulbs can map room interiors in real time
“Light bulbs enabled with Wi-Fi can essentially use light to create an image of the room in real time that can be recorded and sent somewhere else. You can essentially, without being inside of a room, see what's going on in that room from a distance using Wi-Fi…”
Vijendran: Space solar beaming uses frequencies similar to Wi-Fi and mobile networks
“These intensity levels will be below the regulations and limits for such use of radio frequencies, which exists because we have these frequencies we use are similar to wifi and mobile phone systems.”
Wroblewski: Removing Wi-Fi from goods will eventually cost more than inclusion
“Similarly, the cost of adding Wi-Fi to things is approaching a similar thing. They're going to have to pay a lot more to remove the network thing and make all the other components not work with the Wi-Fi thing or network thing or whatever it happens to be.”
Nick Weaver says home Wi-Fi complexity increased by two orders of magnitude
“Like the amount of software required to deliver a perfect internet experience in today's world with dozens of devices, people streaming videos, streaming audio, just the complexity is like one or two orders of magnitude greater than it was even just five years…”
Ghosh: Amazon Go relies on Bluetooth for proximity and Wi-Fi for range
“I hear from guys there that they're using Bluetooth as well as Wi-Fi. Bluetooth for near-field communications or, you know, communications that need much more granularity and Wi-Fi for a little far away communication.”