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Sisson: Foursquare's Shift to SaaS Leaves Consumer Location Market Open for Yaza
“And with Foursquare having exited this consumer space more or less, and focusing on becoming a SaaS player that's kind of left that door open for us.”
Sisson: The deepfake and media security issue will be 10x bigger in five years
“It's only, so the security issue and the preventing fakes issue is a problem that, Is going to be 10 times bigger in five years, and we're sort of, we're planning for that.”
Sisson: Outdoor AR cannot be positioned accurately with current GPS technology
“Mostly we'd learned that the ecosystem isn't there yet. With GPS and the other ways to position it, you just can't put it accurately enough.”
Sisson: Three of Yaza's four team members work full-time day jobs
“You know, all of our people, there's four of us involved. The three of them have full-time day jobs and then they work on this nights and weekend. And that gives us infinite runway to allowed us to experiment with some of these different technologies before we…”
Sisson: Snap Cannot Abandon Ephemeral Content Due to Core Social Dynamic
“SNAP's, you know, original value proposition is that everything goes away, and that was part of how it started, and I don't think they can ever violate that core value problem, because it's really a place you go to hang with your closest friends.”
Sisson: A third of Yaza's beta users average four daily sessions
“No, less than a thousand, but you know, the hundreds, basically. You know, about a third of merch is daily active users and they're using it an average of four sessions a day.”
Sisson: Yaza is incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation
“It's in the stewardship of a public benefit corporation, which is what we set up the company as so that we have an obligation to protect your privacy and not monetize it in certain ways.”
Sisson: Yaza finds strong early resonance among real estate agents
“And where we're actually finding a lot of resonance right now is with realtors, because you can place these videos at individual properties. And what they're doing is they're doing house tours. And recording themselves doing the house tours, so they can put th…”
Sisson: Yaza plans to charge $5 to $7 per month for subscriptions
“We'll do subscriptions. I mean for people who have a lot of video and they want the advanced camera. Just think of it as like Dropbox model will charge, you know, five, seven dollars a month for extra memory, and then you'll get a more powerful camera for edit…”