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Stahl: HILOS operating profit margins will exceed Google and Amazon next year
“The, if you look at profit, we are, our operating profit by next year will be over. More profitable than Google or Amazon, because we don't fundamentally invest or hold the costs of the things that we fulfill for brands.”
Gutwein: DTC Has Not Figured Out How to Scale Post-Adpocalypse
“I think that overall DTC as an industry has not figured out how to scale like the new channels now that they can't spend VC dollars on Facebook and Google spend.”
Trenda: Overture basically invented Google's business model
“Early in my career, that was a company called Overture. So we invented Google's business model basically.”
Dominguez: Immersive media will produce dedicated search engines like prior formats
“Search engines evolve out of every new content type. We've seen this in the past with the websites with Google, products and images with Pinterest, videos with YouTube, and GIFs with Giphy. Immersive content will be no different.”
Google's Search Flywheel Creates an Insurmountable Data Moat
“Google has the flywheel effect. So every time you use Google, you add to their prediction machine. It's so strong that even the largest company on the planet can't catch up.”