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Opinion
Huynh questions why Google, Amazon, and Samsung invest in smart homes
“So we don't really see the value in the smart home space, and we still don't understand why Google and Amazon and Samsung are still working in the smart home space.”
Insight
Romain Torres: Enterprise brands require a direct sales motion to convert
“The Adidas of the world, the Nike of the world, the Samsung of the world, like these people, they have much higher LTV, they are much better clients, but they need to be sold the product. They won't convert without doing some sales motion.”
Assertion Contradicted
Thomas: Corporate Cross-Border Payments Suffer 6% to 10% Failure Rates
“Today, when you, let's say you're corporate, right, so let's say you're, you know, Samsung, and you're trying to make a payment you know, you will have failure rates on the order of, you know, six to 10%, just from, you know, wrong details for the recipient, s…”
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Glueck: Samsung phones call Foursquare APIs hundreds of millions of times yearly
“There are developers like Samsung phones that literally call us, you know, hundreds of millions of times a year.”
Assertion Supported
Samsung Gear VR installed base exceeded 5 million units by 2017
“The gear VR already goes beyond five million.”
Disclosure
Samsung and BetterHelp are Scholarship Owl customers
“So Samsung, Samsung is a customer of ours. We work with better help. We work with quite a few big companies.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Merkley: Gecko failed after chip price crash wiped out leveraged inventory
“Well, 70% of our revenues came from brokerage of computer chips. We just loaded up for the Christmas season, and then Hyundai and Samsung announced a new factory of chips, and the price went, the price halved while our chips were on, on the on the flight. That…”
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Workboard averages $125,000 ACV across its enterprise and growth customers
“Actually, we think of, we do annual contracts. We sort of think of what their ACV per customer is, and it's about a 125 K. We've got really large enterprise, like a Sony, Samsung, Microsoft, right? Do it to telecom. And we've got a bunch of growth companies, a…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gerace: Skyword helps IBM, MasterCard, and Samsung shift to story-centric marketing
“We help companies like IBM, MasterCard Samsung Transform their primary marketing approach from ad-centric to story-centric.”
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Vishnoi: Samsung pays Tagovie $40,000 annually across three countries
“It's 20,000 a year for one country. Yeah, so that's, Spain is 20,000 Turkey is 10,000, India is 10,000, so that's like around 40,000.”
Assertion Supported
Glueck: Foursquare Powers Location Data for Uber, Apple Maps, and Snapchat
“Mapping understanding of a 160 plus countries has, you know, winds up in being used in a lot of your favorite apps, Like Uber, and Apple Maps, and Snapchat, and Twitter, and Pinterest, and Samsung phones”