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#Roblox has been turning on a lot of new revenue streams recently - immersive ads, subs, limited items, etc.

My money is on real world commerce being the next big revenue activation

With tens of millions of virtual items being bought and sold in Roblox's marketplace every day and hundreds of millions of monthly virtual transactions, commerce is alive and well on Roblox. The next big commerce opportunity for Roblox is to enable real world commerce in the metaverse.

Imagine visiting the Gucci Garden in Roblox, discovering some new handbags, trying it out on your avatar, and buying it "two for one" style where your purchase of the virtual handbag kicks off a back end e-commerce process that has the physical version of the handbag show up on your doorstep the next day.

Roblox has shared their vision of real world brands using Roblox to sell physical versions of their products and services. They believe Roblox will become a major commerce channel for brands. I agree.

Today, Roblox has 65.5 daily active users & there were 14B hrs engaged last Q. With that much time already being spent on the platform socializing, playing, discovering new worlds and buying virtual items, it seems only natural that users will spend some of that time shopping, especially if real world commerce is integrated into the experiences people are already spending so much time in. We see it happening with social, as commerce becomes integrated into social media, people are buying directly from within Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest.

People prefer trying out new products before they buy them. The metaverse offers a unique experience for consumers to interact with 3D virtual versions of products before buying. VR and AR adoption should provide a catalyst for this new category of real world commerce on Roblox. Being able to “touch” and interact with a product increases sales conversion rates and reduces returns. In a recent Digital Deloitte and Snap study, it was shown interacting with products that have AR experiences leads to a 94% higher conversion rate.

Next level commerce that Roblox may enable in the future involves customizing products to suit consumers specific tastes. Most users spend a lot of time creating inside Roblox. It's not a stretch to imagine working side by side with your favorite brand (probably thru an AI run designer avatar) to design and/or customize their product to suit your needs, before having it sent to your house.

Long

On the “Big Technology Podcast” today Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky confirmed the company will eventually move into ad business letting hosts advertise on platform.

One 3rd party analyst projected this could be a $3.7B annual rev biz by 2030

Chesky said they will move slowly to make sure they don’t inadvertently tax the user experience. But, it’s coming…no timeline

This is just 1 of the 3 areas of optionality I speculated on in my $ABNB deep dive

The other 2:

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#GenAI eating the world

Only one of these 5 headlines is real. Which one?

Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds

Generative AI will drive a step change in $RBLX engagement, making devs more productive creating on platform

This productivity leads to more and better experiences on the platform, creating more engaged users who spend more time on it and bring their friends onto it. #flywheel

The closest equivalent I know of is GitHub Copliot which uses generative AI to make devs 55% faster

Not to mention how soon anyone will be able to create their own amazing experiences

Long

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Where is the technology is in its adoption lifecycle. Is it just hype or has the technology fully arrived? Are there significant bottlenecks remaining that are blocking mainstream adoption of the technology? Has the business model been figured out?

Keep these considerations in mind when assessing if the Mega trend in question has truly arrived:

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The potential for generative AI to accelerate revenue amongst my fav stocks $META $GOOG $AMZN $MSFT $PLTR $HUBS reminds me of last tech paradigm shift that accelerated revenue for tech co's

Read on to learn how $ADBE rode to the cloud wave to go from negative growth to premium revenue growth (20%+) and 20X stock price appreciation...

Adobe and its successful transition from a traditional, perpetual software license model to SaaS subscription model in 2012 is striking example of how growth acceleration can benefit investors massively off two powerful catalysts – revenue growth and multiple expansion (P/S, P/E).

Facing sub 10% revenue growth in 2011 and an emerging new

paradigm for software delivery, Adobe was facing the classic innovators dilemma.

Pivot to SaaS and cannibalize its traditional licensing business significantly

in the short term or stick with the status quo and face a likely long, drawn-out

death. In November 2011 the company made its decision to pivot its business to

a SaaS model public by announcing its intentions to Wall Street and by the next

year their new SaaS, subscription service Creative Cloud was live. There was

some pain in the short term, 30,000 customers signed a petition on Change.org

asking Adobe to abandon the SaaS transition, and revenue decreased through 2013

and early 2014. However, the transformation began having the expected effects –

stabilizing revenue by shifting from one-time purchases to recurring revenue, increase

lifetime value of customer, expanding the base to include more casual customers

who could justify a monthly subscription, reducing piracy and expanding into

new geographic markets.

Revenue surged, going from quarterly declines to 20%+ quarterly growth in under two years. Adobe’s premium revenue growth (20%+) would sustain over the next six years. Investors took note, re-rating the stock from a Price to

Sales ratio of 3 to 21 by the end of its cloud fueled premium growth phase. Investors

along for the ride saw a near 20X increase in their bet on this transformation

over its ten-year lifespan.

Is history about to repeat itself with generative AI?