SXSW: What Investors Need To Know
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🗓️ 18 March 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Fresh off their visit to South By Southwest, Motley Fool analysts David Kretzmann and Aaron Bush discuss their impressions, including the continued rise of mobile, the evolution of e-commerce, and why Big Data and the ride-sharing economy are trends worth watching. Plus, we share listener comments from Twitter and offer travel tips for anyone visiting Austin, Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 18th. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to Marker Fullry. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today |
| 0:06.2 | from Motley Fool's Supernova and Rule Breaker's David Kretsman |
| 0:09.2 | and Aaron Bush. |
| 0:10.0 | Thanks for being here guys. |
| 0:11.2 | Thanks for having us. |
| 0:12.2 | Thanks. |
| 0:13.0 | So you are back from Austin, Texas. |
| 0:15.0 | You were at the South by Southwest event. |
| 0:20.0 | And I wanted to talk with you guys because I think for anyone, I'll just speak for myself. |
| 0:28.0 | South by Southwest is one of those events that happens every year in Austin, Texas that I've been sort of vaguely aware of for |
| 0:36.7 | the past, I would say, decade or so. |
| 0:39.2 | And I always think of it as, oh, that's really more of a pop culture entertainment type event. It's where filmmakers go to debut movies or to speak on panels about their films. |
| 0:54.0 | It's where musicians go to try and get noticed, |
| 0:56.3 | that sort of thing. |
| 0:57.3 | But as we were talking about right before we started |
| 1:00.5 | taping increasingly, it is a place for the tech industry to go particularly |
| 1:06.7 | the startup tech industry I think Twitter the first splash that Twitter |
| 1:11.2 | made years ago was at South by Southwest and it's now |
| 1:16.1 | this event where it's not just musicians and filmmakers and the fans of those two industries |
| 1:21.8 | that are going it's increasingly investors so let's talk a |
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