Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures breaks down macro market data on proactive health and the wellness sector.
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Kirsten Green claims the biggest recent companies started with a consumer-first approach
“But if you step back and you look at the last two decades, the biggest companies started with a consumer first approach.”
Opinion
Kirsten Green calls consumer health spending her biggest investment trend in 30 years
“So on the health front, this is, you know, perhaps the biggest trend in my, you know, nearly 30 years now of investing. I think the biggest trend that we've seen People are, there is a growing willingness to spend on health and themselves and outside of the sy…”
Opinion
Kirsten Green argues true digital personalization failed for 20 years until GenAI
“We've been talking about, for instance, you know, 20 years now, we've been talking about personalization. It really hasn't happened. If you kind of look across, imagine you go to a website, you know, how personalized does it feel? Like it's pretty much a simil…”
Insight
Kirsten Green likens ChatGPT to Google, opening doors for vertical AI apps
“Jack GPT is to this generation what Google was to the last. If you think about Google is like the place where, you know, the front door, you go there, that's your big search. But if you want to, like, look for real estate, you go to Zillow. If you want to unde…”
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Kirsten Green reveals Forerunner Ventures avoids investing in standalone product companies
“We haven't actually made an investment in a product company per se. We've always been looking at like a business model shift and a behavior shift.”
Insight
Kirsten Green advises founders to build products that improve as LLMs advance
“A business that is eager for the LLMs to keep getting better because it has the potential to make their product better. Like that's where you want to be building, right?”