15 quotes from LDV Vision Summit you might have missed

Like during any great summit,  there was a lot of valuable information to take in during the LDV Vision Summit. Here are some noteworthy  quotes to remember for those who were there and those who weren’t :

 

•  “Big players will struggle to keep up in some fields as technology investments that are 5 years old will become obsolete ”  Jan Erik Solem, Mapillary

• “Visual communication is so much more efficient and fast than verbal communication, it is obvious that one day it will become one of the major means of human­ computer interactions. ”  Alex Winter, Placemeter  

 

• ” Visual storytelling continues to be one of the strongest tools for connecting brands to consumers. ”  Kelly Hoey, Cuurio    

• “Everything we are seeing today is barely the cave man era of these new image capture technologies”  Rick Smolan, Against All Odds    

• “Photos are the communication currency of the mobile generation” Tobias Peggs, Aviary    

  

•  ” I continue to look for investment opportunities around the intersection of visual communication and mobile messaging.”  David Pakman, Venrock  

• “I still think the problem of image curation and sharing has not been solved. ”  David Aronoff, Flybridge Capital Partners    

• “We are shifting from a world of nearly all professionally created content to a world of crowd sourced content ­­ that disruption has tremendous implications for investing. ”  Richard Greenfield, BTIG

  

• “I think the most precious commodity is our attention.”- Jeffrey Madoff

• “Why are photos so valuable? Because they are our memories”- Evan Nisselson, LDV Capital

• “Content should find viewers, not the opposite”, Adam Singolda, Taboola

• “Why are we not creating an image format that includes still, video and sensation”, Om Malik

• “93% of people creating products with photos are women”, Moshe Bercovich, Shutterfly

• Image recognition is not useful without a community, Serge Belongie, Cornell tech

• “Wearables are a vanishing trend on a way to new technologies” Flo Meisner, EyeEm 

And one last thought on “investment trends in visual tech” . In fact, it’s the whole panel in one sketch by Johnny Goldstein from Vizualize.com :