David Dicko
Airbus A220 Captain, Air France. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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A former Air France pilot and corporate strategy manager, David Dicko co-founded SkyLights in 2015 to provide cinematic VR headsets for premium in-flight entertainment. He led the company through Y Combinator and secured airline partnerships before returning to commercial piloting as an Airbus A220 Captain.
1shows
1appearances
16statements
5resolved
3supported
0contradicted
60%fully supported
Everything David Dicko said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Dicko: Skylights will be the top VR entertainment distributor in two years
“And so very, very strongly we are in a position, this is our point, we are in a position to, within the next two years, to become the number one virtual reality entertainment distributor in the world.”
Dicko: Consumer VR will not achieve ubiquitous adoption in five years
“Or you think that virtual reality is going to submerge the market and then in five years everyone's going to have a virtual reality headset. I don't think so, by the way.”
Dicko: Seatback screens cost $20k each and add $1B in airline fuel
“They cost 20,000 dollars each, and they're so heavy that the airline industry spends one billion dollars in extra fuel cost just to fly them around.”
Dicko: Virtual reality has not found a killer use case outside gaming
“Very, very clearly, virtual reality is looking for its killer use case. It's found one in the gaming and is still looking for any other killer use case out there.”
Dicko: Skylights gets 50% business-class uptake averaging four hours
“We have one passenger out of two, and so when it's given out for free in business, we have about 50% uptake of four hours on average.”
Dicko: 75% of surveyed passengers prefer Skylights over seatback screens
“And we have about 75% of people who say yes, and of the same amount who prefer that to see back screens.”
Dicko: Skylights is not a hardware company and holds no patents
“We're not a hardware company. The heart of the technology is not patentable. We basically commit to the airlines to use whatever hardware works.”
Dicko: Samsung and Netflix will not sell in-flight VR to airlines
“Let me tell you, Samsung's not going to do that. Netflix is not going to do that.”
Dicko: Skylights competes with Thales, Panasonic, and Spafax
“We're competitors to Talos, to Panasonic, to Global Entertainment, to Spafax, to these intermediaries, yes.”
Dicko: Studio early-window licensing requires proving content will never leak
“To be able to have and to get access to early window content from the studios, you need to prove to them that the content that's on your devices will never ever end up on the internet.”
Dicko: Skylights decided to cut fundraising short to prioritize sales
“We basically decided to cut the round short and focus on increasing our sales whereby trust was no longer, would no longer be the key thing.”
Skylights seeks $1.8M to scale in-flight VR to 100 daily flights
“We're raising 1.8 million dollars. The idea is to move from the 100 flights that we've done so far to a hundred flights a day.”
Dicko: Skylights ran pilots with Air France, KLM, and two others
“So we've done it with Four airlines, Air France, KLM, On Your Air, and XL Airways.”
Dicko: Skylights holds distribution deals with Fox and DreamWorks
“We have a worldwide distribution agreement with 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks for that”
Dicko: Three intermediaries sit between airlines and movie studios
“You have the hardware providers, then you have three intermediaries between the airlines and the original content owners, which are the studios.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens David's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 THE PITCHLEDGER | Airbus A220 Captain, Air France | 1 | 16 | 60% 3/5 | full record on the Pitch → |