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Panelist CEOs:
Klout, Quora, Path, My fitness pal.

My fitness pal Most used fitness app on planet. 50mm registers users.

Path. Dave morin. About to hit 25mm users.

It's all about mobile.

Friend to friend vs stranger to stranger.

Vertical social networks. Share your daily run live w friends.

Rate of growth in networks only as dramatic as rate if decay.

Path. 2 main ways to monetiZe. Advertising and virtual goods.

Facebook vs Tencent. Path had both. Virtual goods and premium membership. More like Tencent. Serving the user directly.

Path. Exponential growth in different geographies takes you for a ride. Dealing with lots if differs sensors, location data, pictures etc. engineering problem has gotten harder. Design even more important.

Facebook paper--extraordinarily well designed but not sure people are going to use it. 10 people raised their hands in a crowd of 500 when asked.

Engineering very hard, especially around data science. Google buying entire companies for their data science teams.

Quora: how do u avoid fate of yahooanswers? Quora trying to build a library of Alexandria ok the internet. Database of human knowledge in one place. Need to keep quality high. Need consistent versions of the same question. This is curated by Quora

Klout is having trouble with mass market adoption. Knout scores. People with low klout scores are not returning to site. Like going to gym and being told you are fat.

The panel likes the following companies:
snapchat
secret, a way for people to share secrets. It's the least nice place to go on the internet.
GoPro and drones will change media forever.
What DGI is doing with drones is mindblowing. Putting a drone behind skiers in Olympics and other sports will revolutionize sports media.

Robotics. We are at Cambrian moment in computing. Wearable computing and speed of computing growth. We no longer have one computer. They are everywhere. Tesla is the first car built around a computer.


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