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6 entries, 22 Feb 2024 to 28 Aug 2026

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      Gerstner states Google processes 10 billion queries daily, more than one per human globally.

      “So, you know, a couple queries are more than a query for every human on the planet, and it has the most efficient system in the world for doing that.”

      22 Feb 2024 · BG2 Pod · 17:26 · source · permalink
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      Gerstner states nuclear reactor costs drop 50% by the fifth plant and 70% by the tenth through scale production.

      “if you look at these gen three and gen four reactors coming online, even in The United States, they always cost more in that first plant, but by plant five, it was cut in half, by plant 10 it was cut by 70%, right? So cost comes down as you ramp up scale production.”

      9 Sep 2024 · BG2 Pod · 42:42 · source · permalink
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      Gerstner says 50 million of 65 million kids under 18 would never own a compounding account without this program.

      “Under the age of 18, that's 65,000,000 kids. And of those 65,000,000, 50,000,000 would never own an account that compounds.”

      4 Dec 2025 · Prof G Markets · 11:09 · source · permalink
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      Gerstner notes hyperscalers grew collective revenue from $150 billion to $350 billion in just eight quarters.

      “Let me just give you a statistic. It's just eight quarters ago that collectively they were doing a $150,000,000,000 in revenue. Now they're doing $350,000,000,000 in revenue.”

      5 May 2026 · Altimeter Capital · 4:49 · source · permalink
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      Gerstner says $200B of incremental revenue is incomprehensible in Silicon Valley history.

      “We're talking from 100,000,000,000 to 300,000,000,000. 200,000,000,000 of incremental revenue is incomprehensible in the history of Silicon Valley.”

      11 Jul 2026 · All-In Podcast · 0:24 · source · permalink
    3. posted

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      28 Aug 2026 · X · source

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