Vivek Wadhwa: Timing

Vivek Wadhwa is American academic. Explore interesting quotes on timing.
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“The last big thing [Apple] did was nine years ago with the iPhone. And since then they made it bigger with the iPad; they made it smaller with the Watch. All they keep doing is playing with the size. … [Apple] needs an Elon Musk or a Zuckerberg running it. … [iPhone] is a ten-year-old device. They've done everything they can with it. And Samsung, and even BlackBerry, have similar or even better ratings than the iPhone does. That's the biggest slap in the face you could possibly have: BlackBerry almost ranking the same as an iPhone? Time to move on.”

Vivek Wadhwa

[Vivek Wadhwa: Apple should buy Tesla and make Elon Musk CEO, https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/04/27/vivek-wadhwa-apple-should-buy-tesla-and-make-elon-musk-ceo.html, CNBC, 8 September 2018, April 27, 2016]

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“[BitCoin]'s the greatest scam of modern times. … the poor, the average mom-and-pop, the truck driver and the barber, who put their life savings into this, are going to lose their money, and be told to keep holding on, trust us, the value will go up. And they're gonna go bankrupt. They're gonna lose their life savings. … This is what happened with the dot-com boom, the grandma and grandpa lost their life savings. History is repeating itself. … We have these scamsters, basically, hyping the heck out of it, while all it's being used for is illegal money laundering. … It's simply gonna implode before you know it. And regular people who trust you are gonna lose their shirts. … Would you put your life savings into digital currency? You lose a password and you've lost everything. … They know it's gonna crash and burn. … it crashes and it goes to zero, and people lose their life savings. Don't do it. Get out of it, rather than losing everything you have. Yes, the price might increase, but more likely than not it's gonna be zero before you know it.”

Vivek Wadhwa

Digital Gold or Ponzi Scheme? http://youtube.com/watch?v=mkSw04Guw0E on CNN (6 January 2018, 1045 EST)

Life , Money , People , History

“Bitcoin did have great potential, but it is damaged beyond repair. … Bitcoin was born with serious flaws. … it has been compared to a Ponzi scheme. … It's time to admit that the current Bitcoin needs to be scrapped … bear in mind what it is that makes some venture capitalists Bitcoin zealots: pure greed. That is the reason clearest to me for Bitcoin's failure.”

Vivek Wadhwa

R.I.P., Bitcoin. It's time to move on. http://washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/01/19/r-i-p-bitcoin-its-time-to-move-on in The Washington Post (19 January 2016)

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