The Minutes of Chamath Palihapitiya on tech-debt https://minutesof.com/chamath-palihapitiya/on/tech-debt/ Everything Chamath Palihapitiya has said on tech-debt: 2 verbatim quotes from April 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:32:37 +0000 Palihapitiya estimates fifty years of tech debt represents hundreds of trillions of lines of code https://minutesof.com/q/16e5d90e-5689-4170-acb2-cd8efd1b1437/ https://minutesof.com/q/16e5d90e-5689-4170-acb2-cd8efd1b1437/ “And I suspect when you enumerate the number of lines that that represents, it's hundreds of trillions of lines of just pretty marginal mediocre code to bad code.” — All-In Podcast Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:17:00 +0000 tech-debt Palihapitiya says a $100B revenue customer brings 60-year-old pensioners to interpret COBOL code https://minutesof.com/q/56b17682-844d-4539-83d8-6d387e4cc618/ https://minutesof.com/q/56b17682-844d-4539-83d8-6d387e4cc618/ “I'll tell you one of our customers. They have to go and get 60 year old pensioners to come into the office to interpret cope no. I'm I'm not joking.” — All-In Podcast Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:17:00 +0000 tech-debt