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a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilson: Big tech won't be significantly disrupted by AI
“I don't think that they were disrupted very much by the shift from web to mobile, and I don't think they're going to be disrupted very much by the adoption of AI power software.”
Fred Wilson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:46 a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilson: Software revolution will unlock 10x to 1000x more value than manufacturing
“Total economic value that will be unlocked with the software revolution should be at least one, maybe two, maybe three orders of magnitude bigger than what we saw with manufacturing, automotive, you know, for the reasons you describe.”
Fred Wilson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:27 a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Wilson: YouTube sold to Google due to copyright fight costs
“Right, but that ultimately caused them to have to sell to Google. Because they concluded that they couldn't continue to play the game that way, which was the right way to play the game. As an independent company. They needed somebody who could fight the conten…”
Fred Wilson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:19 a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
a16z Prediction Held up
Wilson: Cloud market will split to Amazon 60%, Google 30%, Microsoft 10%
“But I think it could be like Amazon has 60% of the market, Google has 30% of the market, and Microsoft has 10% of the market. I think it's gonna be a three player game in that business, and that's good.”
Fred Wilson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:34 a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilson: Personal capital moved into crypto will never return to fiat
“Once my money gets into the crypto ecosystem, it's gonna stay in the crypto ecosystem. It might, you know, move like, I'm definitely gonna be playing around in all these networks and, you know, using them and staking and doing all this incredibly cool shit tha…”
Fred Wilson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 37:20 a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilson: Crypto tokens will drive massive innovation in staking and governance
“I think that we're gonna see a lot of really innovative things being done with staking, because I think crypto tokens make staking super easy to do, and there are, like, I think Richard's idea is that if I can get data scientists to stake their models, to put …”
Fred Wilson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 48:51 a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fred Wilson: Successful healthcare startups will bypass hospitals and insurance companies
“And I think what will work for us in healthcare is to service the doctors and the patients and ignore the hospitals and the, Insurance companies and all the big honkin' bureaucratic institutions in healthcare.”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 34:41 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Wilson: Top 100 mobile apps mirror top 100 pre-iPhone websites
“If you look at the top hundred mobile apps, And you look at what the top hundred websites were before the iPhone came out, it's not a very different list, right?”
Fred Wilson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:09 a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
MAD Assertion Partly supported
Wilson: USV invested $2.5M in Indeed before its $1.4B acquisition
“We put two and a half million dollars into the company. That's all the money that they ever needed and They sold for a 1,000,000,004, you know, so you know, that's as good as it gets, really, in the venture business.”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 1:31 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
MAD Assertion Contradicted
Wilson: 5M teachers and 70M students use Edmodo in the US
“So today, four years later, five million teachers, seventy million students are using it in the K through 12 system here in the United States.”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 9:48 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
MAD Assertion Supported
Fred Wilson: LendingClub operates at one-third the cost of traditional lenders
“Lending Club can do that at Maybe a third of the cost of what a traditional lender can do it at.”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 30:11 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
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