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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 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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