Everything Avidan Ross said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Autonomous vehicle R&D dividends will transform all physical industries
“There's Going to be more value generated from the piece dividends of the autonomous car war. What I mean to say is that every industry in the world that needs to physically articulate the world around it is going to benefit from all of that technology stack, t…”
Engineers with advanced degrees will inevitably replace MBAs as tech CEOs
“The timing as to why is it today that we're going to see more masters and PhD engineering degrees at the CEO helm of companies than MBAs is because of those things. And it's taken a while for engineers like myself to build out positions in the venture capital …”
Connected hardware value comes from cloud services, not commodity components
“And when you're connected, you now have the opportunity to sell services. You get to interconnect your componentry to the internet. So think, for example, about a low-cost sensor is sitting out in the field. Now it has unlimited free connectivity into the clou…”
Root Ventures avoids hardware startups relying solely on product margins
“We won't invest in something that relies just on margin alone. From our perspective, that's not a venture scalable business.”
Root Ventures evaluates hardware investments fundamentally as software companies
“We look at our hardware investments as actually software companies at their core. The definition of These companies is often that the software is the differentiator, but we also make a lot of investments purely in software companies.”
B2B startups should land on immediate ROI, then expand via data
“The Trojan horse idea is you bring something into the customer that has a clear ROI, but once they've adopted it, Then you can start upselling them or taking advantage of the data you're collecting from being inside of that company or that industry.”
Silicon Valley must prioritize mental health with professional athlete rigor
“So I think we don't spend enough time talking about mental health. I think athletes are constantly working out. They're going to the gym and trying to hit peak performance. Silicon Valley is a world of people whose peak performance is around their mental state…”
Startup board members must work for the company, not for prestige
“Board members have to remember that they work for the company, and you don't join a board with For the prestige or the addition to your resume, you join the board because you're ready to work. You become an extension of the organization. And if you're not read…”
Smartphone wars created the low-cost component supply chain for consumer IoT
“Because of the smartphone wars, the war between Apple and Samsung and Google and Nokia and Blackberry, a lot of the components that you find in a... Everyone was trying to get a low-cost camera, low-cost accelerometers, low-cost Bluetooth chips and Wi-Fi chips…”
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