Scott Belsky

Partner, A24 · 1 appearance on the record.

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Scott Belsky co-founded the creative platform Behance, which was acquired by Adobe in 2012, and spent years as an executive leading Adobe's Creative Cloud and product initiatives. He is an active early-stage investor and the author of Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle.

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Everything Scott Belsky said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Belsky predicts centralized and hybrid services will ultimately win in Web3

“In, in many cases, centralized services will win or hybrid, you know, decentralized by ethos, but centralized to some extent by like certain aspects of the user experience, you know, I think are maybe going to ultimately win”

Scott Belsky Jan 11, 2022 ▶ 17:41 Forecasting the Future of Tech with Scott Belsky | Where It Happens

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Belsky: AI recommendations will cause consumers to abandon the concept of favorites

“And so, you know, that for music, that for travel, that for restaurants, that for whatever, like, maybe we're all gonna vastly increase the surface area of our exposure to stuff we like, and in some ways, like, abandon the concept of favorites altogether.”

Scott Belsky Jan 11, 2022 ▶ 20:56 Forecasting the Future of Tech with Scott Belsky | Where It Happens

Insight

Belsky: Creativity is the new productivity as automation commoditizes mere speed

“Creativity is the new productivity. You know, we're going to stand out increasingly in our work. And on social media and on any other thing that's, you know, amplifying our opportunity stream through our creativity, you know, it's not about doing things faster…”

Scott Belsky Jan 11, 2022 ▶ 52:28 Forecasting the Future of Tech with Scott Belsky | Where It Happens

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Belsky predicts 3D creation will democratize and go mainstream like mobile photography

“Same exact thing's gonna happen for three D. I'm like wholly convinced that that's the case.”

Scott Belsky Jan 11, 2022 ▶ 1:04:13 Forecasting the Future of Tech with Scott Belsky | Where It Happens

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Belsky predicts consumers will voluntarily opt back into brand tracking for AR

“We want to have experiences with brands where they know who we are. I think we're going to start opting back in. And I think especially in the world of AR, you know, where we have immersive experiences around us, we're going to want to be known everywhere we a…”

Scott Belsky Jan 11, 2022 ▶ 27:26 Forecasting the Future of Tech with Scott Belsky | Where It Happens

Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2032

Belsky predicts the number of small businesses will 10x by 2032

“And in 10 years from now, I think we're going to see probably 10 X the number of small businesses as there are today.”

Scott Belsky Jan 11, 2022 ▶ 1:06:24 Forecasting the Future of Tech with Scott Belsky | Where It Happens

Insight

Belsky argues Wikipedia is the closest existing model to a DAO

“It's like a nonprofit, you know, it's the closest thing to a DAO that we basically have today. In the sense that it's communally governed and it's owned by no one essentially.”

Scott Belsky Jan 11, 2022 ▶ 42:27 Forecasting the Future of Tech with Scott Belsky | Where It Happens

The other half of the tape: Scott Belsky's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 16 times in 9 episodes on the Startup Ideas Podcast. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Greg Isenberg 12 Sahil Bloom 3 Gary Vaynerchuk 1

Statements about Scott Belsky, by other people (1)

Insight

Isenberg: Orchestration is the new interface layer and key value capture

“The orchestration layer is the new interface layer. As we spend our day coordinating agent workflows in a model agnostic fashion, local and cloud, and validating outputs, human in the loop and resolving issues, the ultimate layer To own is where coordination t…”

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