The company's culture has been strong through the pandemic.
Beyond the valley's ideologies, the move of their HQ to Denver from California is partly a hint of the major work they will be doing with helping scale AI solutions for heavy industrial clients in TX
Why $ETSY could be $100B company by 2025 and a valuable lesson for New Investors.
Here is a Thread 🧵 //
2/ $ETSY Product:
Etsy operates a marketplace offering a largest selection of locally made gifts. Everything from jewelry, clothing, pottery, bath, body, now home furnishing and 10-more areas!
They operate a two-sided marketplace between buyers (82M) & sellers (4.4M) as at 2020
The Moat:
3/ Brand Recognition:
• Over 80%+ of purchases on $ETSY are made by organic buyers compared to 20% paid by marketing
• This level of word of mouth helps to lower CAC and drives scale.
• $ETSY has become a household name and this is likely to stick post-pandemic.
Primer on How Investors can build an AI Portfolio to capture the $13T Opportunity from Artificial Intelligence by 2030.
Mega Thread //
• A Framework for evaluating AI Companies
• Top Companies that will continue to dominate
• First Principles basics on AI
Let's Review⬇️🧵
* Disclaimer: Not advice
1/Some context - This is a follow-up to a Twitter spaces with some brilliant folks:
Thread Outline:
• Foundational elements
• Debunking AI
• My framework for structuring an AI portfolio
• My Top Companies to watch
• Market Opportunity
• Summary
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2/ What's AI?
Debunking it - AI simply involves training a complex system with huge amounts of data using algorithms (instructions), then using that trained system to make predictions about new data it has never seen.
Below is a break-down of the types (ML & NLP are common)