Collision 2015
2015-05-05..2015-05-06
Las Vegas, United States
[Collision 2015, Collision 2016, Collision 2017, Collision 2018]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Collision 2015 - Tony Hsieh, Zappos.com in conversation with Paddy Cosgrave | Tony Hsieh, Paddy Cosgrave | 14m |
Zappos relocates HQ into the old city hall, grows from ~90 to ~1,500 employees, and flips campus design to force people into the neighborhood rather than… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Scot Chisholm, Scott Harrison, Bryan Johnson & Dominic Rushe | Scot Chisholm, Scott Harrison, Bryan Johnson, Dominic Rushe | 19m |
A $100 million OS Fund backs startups in AI, genomics, synthetic biology and space aiming for “quantum-leap” impact; investment targets include projects to… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics | Andra Keay | 14m |
Conference highlights concrete progress and numbers: research demos include an exoskeleton that stands unaided and magnetically guided microbots now in… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Deborah Theobald, Wilson Wang, Ron Gutman & Lauren Walker | Deborah Theobald, Wilson Wang, Ron Gutman, Lauren Walker | 20m |
Vecna Technologies, Healthtap and the International Rescue Committee describe concrete deployments: a streamlined electronic record called the clinac box runs… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Meredith Perry of UBeam & Mark Suster of UpFront Ventures | Meredith Perry, Mark Suster | 20m |
Ceiling transmitters and tiny phone receivers claim to charge devices wirelessly by sending ultrasound to electricity, vibrating a phone case and converting… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Ryan Carson of Treehouse | Ryan Carson | 15m |
Treehouse runs an online coding school with 130,000 paying students at $25/month, teaches beginners in six to twelve months and helps them get jobs, while… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Lew Crine of New Relic, John Hayes of Pure Storage with Diane Brady of DBMedia | Lew Crine, John Hayes, Diane Brady | 22m |
Company founded 2008 builds monitoring that measures everything about software to help teams deliver faster, claiming engineers ship better UX and a CEO still… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Urs Holzle of Google with Bruce Upbin of Forbes | Urs Holzle, Bruce Upbin | 20m |
Google runs its own global infrastructure with billions of dollars a year in capex and opex and chooses custom hardware, containers and cluster OSes over plain… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Julia Hartz of Eventbrite in conversation with author James Wallman | Julia Hartz, James Wallman | 21m |
Claims that experiences beat stuff get tested with numbers and platform data: Eventbrite uses online payment processing and discovery tools to enable 1.7… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Stan Chudnovsky of Facebook with JP Mangalindan of Mashable | Stan Chudnovsky, JP Mangalindan | 20m |
Joined product pivots into messaging aim to make Messenger both a fast core utility and an expressive platform: voice calling claims 10% of internet voice… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Roelant Prins of Adyen with Dominic Rushe of The Guardian | Roelant Prins, Dominic Rushe | 20m |
Adyen is a global payments platform that processes about $32–33B run rate (about 2.5M transactions/day) and connects merchants to local methods worldwide… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Patrick Grady of Deem with Bruce Upbin of Forbes | Patrick Grady, Bruce Upbin | 21m |
15-year-old B2B marketplace and SaaS suite that connects 29,000 businesses to 11 million products and services while combining travel and expense into a single… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Josh Tetrick of Hampton Creek with JP Mangalindan of Mashable | Josh Tetrick, JP Mangalindan | 20m |
Company screens from roughly 400,000 plant species to replace eggs and butter with ingredients like Canadian yellow pea, sorghum and soy gum, and launches Just… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Chet Pipkin of Wemo with Jefferson Graham of USA Today | Chet Pipkin, Jefferson Graham | 20m |
A consumer hardware company pivots to a WeMo platform that wires existing sockets, switches and bulbs into cloud rules, already demoing open a garage with… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Brendan Kennedy of Privateer Holdings with Dominic Rushe of The Guardian | Brendan Kennedy, Dominic Rushe | 19m |
Company runs a 60,000 sq ft federally licensed grow with 40 rooms producing about 100 lb per harvest at five harvests a year, ships medical cannabis across… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Taavet Hinrikus, Kathryn Petralia, John Maccllwaine, Katie Benner & Aunkur Arya | Taavet Hinrikus, Kathryn Petralia, John Maccllwaine, Katie Benner, Aunkur Arya | 24m |
Five fintech companies describe exactly what they build and the results: a payment API that lets a merchant accept cards PayPal Apple Pay and Coinbase with one… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Matthew Prince of Cloudflare with Diane Brady of DBMedia | Matthew Prince, Diane Brady | 21m |
Cloudflare claims to serve about 5% of web traffic and signs up roughly 5,000 customers a day, and it pushed free SSL that doubled the size of the encrypted… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Tim Draper of DFJ Venture, Mood Rowghani of KPCB & Steve Bertoni of Forbes | Tim Draper, Mood Rowghani, Steven Bertoni | 20m |
Claims rapid rise in unicorns—about a unicorn baby boom and maybe 10x more than before—and argues investors must pick true category leaders with durability… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Stewart Butterfield of Slack with Jonathan Krim of The Wall Street Journal | Stewart Butterfield, Jonathan Krim | 25m |
Company claims to have turned team communication into a searchable platform that replaces most internal email, integrates everywhere, and scales with heavy… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Bruce Aust & Jeff Thomas of NASDAQ with Leslie Hook of Financial Times | Bruce Aust, Jeff Thomas, Leslie Hook | 09m |
Says Nasdaq sees reasonable public valuations: today ~2,700 Nasdaq-listed companies vs ~5,000 in the late 90s, and last year 189 IPOs with 41 year-to-date and… | ||
| NASDAQ Closing Bell | Patty gosb | 09m |
NASDAQ rings the closing bell from Las Vegas for the first time and highlights concrete reach: 600 technology companies listed on the exchange, representing… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Jason Johnson of August | Jason Johnson | 14m |
August makes the August Smart Lock and announces a distribution deal with Comcast Xfinity to expose the lock through installers and reps. Current penetration… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Ron Johnson of Enjoy with Jon Swartz of USA Today | Ron Johnson, Jon Swartz | 19m |
Launches a service that will hand-deliver and set up devices at the customer’s chosen time and place, spending up to an hour installing and teaching for the… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Jimmy Chamberlin of Live One with Alex Needham of The Guardian | Jimmy Chamberlin, Alex Needham | 20m |
MTV-era budgets reached $1.1 million video and created broadcast economics; modern streaming tried early experiments (Myspace Madrid draws millions but no… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Ynon Kreiz of Maker Studio in conversation with Morgan Spurlock | Ynon Kreiz, Morgan Spurlock | 20m |
Maker claims to be the world’s largest short‑form video network with 55,000 channels and 650 million subscriptions, delivering north of 10 billion monthly… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Kevin Chou of Kabam in conversation with Daire Hickey | Kevin Chou, Daire Hickey | 21m |
Claims mobile gaming outstrips movies and TV and requires 500 apps per day to compete, so top titles use $5–10M mobile budgets and testing cycles that start… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Oisin Hanrahan & Bastian Lehmann with Maren Kate Donovan | Oisin Hanrahan, Bastian Lehmann, Maren Kate Donovan | 20m |
Postmates starts as a retail tool then tests a consumer hack using distributed gift cards and sells about $10k over one weekend, pivoting to prepared food… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Mikkel Svane of Zendesk & Dwight Merriman of MongoDB with Diane Brady of DBMedia | Mikkel Svane, Dwight Merriman, Diane Brady | 22m |
Claims that enterprise software is undergoing a democratization of enterprise software with users preferring consumer-grade UX, and that the market now splits… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Liam Casey of PCH with Jonathan Krim of The Wall Street Journal | Liam Casey, Jonathan Krim | 16m |
PCH explains concrete pipelines: prototyping with Arduino, Raspberry Pi and 3D printing, running global hackathons, then a four-month Highway One accelerator… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Mitchell Baker of Mozilla with Alexandra Suich of The Economist | Mitchell Baker, Alexandra Suich | 22m |
Net neutrality affects not just video but the internet of things, search and global platforms, and current US FCC rules help but face congressional and… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Stefan Weitz, Author of Search: How the data explosion makes us smarter | Stefan Weitz | 21m |
Claim: search becomes an active agent that rebuilds the physical world from sensors, APIs and trillions of signals, not just an index. The talk cites four… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Scott Cook of Intuit & Ryan Holmes of Hootsuite with Eamon Leonard | Scott Cook, Ryan Holmes, Eamon Leonard | 21m |
Intuit reports 60 million users after 32 years and adopts an experimentation system inspired by The Lean Startup so teams can run fast cheap experiments with… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Christina Milian & Kristopher Jones with Katie Benner | Christina Milian, Kristopher B. Jones, Katie Benner | 14m |
App launched from a hackathon that asks users to submit selfies and lets global artists redraw them, turning a novelty into a commerce platform where artists… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Josh Peck, King Bach & JennXPenn with Brent Weinstein of the United Talent Agency | Josh Peck, King Bach, JennXPenn, Brent Weinstein | 21m |
Claims that digital creators bypass gatekeepers and monetize directly with the audience backed by specifics: 12.1 million Vine followers, 2 million YouTube… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Jens Christensen & John Underkoffler with Molly Wood | Jens Christensen, John Underkoffler, Molly Wood | 19m |
Jaunt builds a special camera and pipeline that auto-creates cinematic VR and just launched a Los Angeles studio; smartphone viewers become the single biggest… | ||
| Collision 2015 - DJ Roller, Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Alex Needham & David Haines | DJ Roller, Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Alex Needham, David Haines | 21m |
Claim is that live VR can give remote fans on-stage perspective, with the band’s fan base being two thirds outside the U.S. and age distribution roughly 13–35… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Bing Gordon of KPCB with Molly Wood of Marketplace | Bing Gordon, Molly Wood | 20m |
Kleiner Perkins CPO reports meeting 100 companies in 2014, running 225 product sessions and touching 41 portfolio firms, adding measurable value to 14… | ||
| Collision 2015 - John Collison of Stripe with Alexandra Suich of The Economist | John Collison, Alexandra Suich | 21m |
Claims that online payments remain fragmented and brittle: international acceptance still fails where credit card penetration is low, and checkout UI is… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Ryan Smith of Qualtrics & Bryan Scheirer of Sequoia with Bruce Upbin of Forbes | Ryan Smith, Bryan Scheirer, Bruce Upbin | 24m |
Company starts in a parents basement and builds a survey platform that lands every university in the world, then pivots in 2008–09 into enterprise insights… | ||
| Collision 2015 - Max Levchin of Affirm with Steve Bertoni of Forbes | Max Levchin, Steven Bertoni | 20m |
Company raises $275 million mix of debt and equity and plans to put most of it to work lending at the point of sale, not marketing. Claims 60–66% of… | ||
| Collision 2015 - John Zimmer of Lyft with Jonathan Krim of The Wall Street Journal | John Zimmer, Jonathan Krim | 22m |
Lyft says it raises over $500 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, creates more than 30 new rules and regulations with local governments, and deploys 100… | ||
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