The Minutes of David Friedberg on climate corp https://minutesof.com/david-friedberg/on/climate-corp/ Everything David Friedberg has said on climate corp: 9 verbatim quotes between October 2023 and October 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:42 +0000 Monsanto paid $1.1 billion to acquire Climate Corp, a deal Friedberg says defined the ag tech sector. https://minutesof.com/q/f33acd9e-66a8-437f-8f14-f1799f39cc70/ https://minutesof.com/q/f33acd9e-66a8-437f-8f14-f1799f39cc70/ “No. I think if you ask people that work in and around the industry, a lot of people call the acquisition of Climate by Monsanto because they paid $1,100,000,000.” — Venture Europe Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:21:31 +0000 climate corp Friedberg recounts buying a CD-ROM with 30 years of weather data for 200 stations when founding Climate Corp. https://minutesof.com/q/4559eaf4-eba4-46dd-aa22-1a16fbd7d704/ https://minutesof.com/q/4559eaf4-eba4-46dd-aa22-1a16fbd7d704/ “I'll give him a shout out because he still works at Climate Corp to this day I hired him after so he sold me a CD ROM of weather data.” — The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:54:41 +0000 climate corp Friedberg recalls buying weather data on CD-ROM for $10,000 when starting Climate Corp in 2006. https://minutesof.com/q/5987d7f9-280d-4fe5-9bf9-63a2855340fc/ https://minutesof.com/q/5987d7f9-280d-4fe5-9bf9-63a2855340fc/ “The sales guy was a guy named Jeff Hamlin. I'll give him a shout out because he still works at Climate Corp to this day.” — The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:22:17 +0000 climate corp Friedberg states Climate Corp's average annual data use increased 40x every year for seven consecutive years. https://minutesof.com/q/406ea058-2bf2-42cd-97a6-1ef1f35d665a/ https://minutesof.com/q/406ea058-2bf2-42cd-97a6-1ef1f35d665a/ “In the seven years we ran Climate Corp, by the way, we did a study that our average data use per year increased by 40x every year for seven years.” — Future of Agriculture Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:49:00 +0000 climate corp At that time, probably the largest we were known to be the largest users of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud bec https://minutesof.com/q/13312437-d344-400d-a3cd-5dc2f015bf3d/ https://minutesof.com/q/13312437-d344-400d-a3cd-5dc2f015bf3d/ “At that time, probably the largest we were known to be the largest users of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud because we were ingesting so much data to build these models that related all the variables of farming and the weather to predict outcome.” — AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 climate corp In fact, we did federal Freedom of Information Act requests for the federal government in The U. S. To get har https://minutesof.com/q/399aff33-7db2-4759-8128-952108c8c827/ https://minutesof.com/q/399aff33-7db2-4759-8128-952108c8c827/ “In fact, we did federal Freedom of Information Act requests for the federal government in The U. S. To get hard drives and hard drives of data.” — AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 climate corp Friedberg says Climate Corp was launching paid services when Monsanto acquisition talks began, requiring hefty https://minutesof.com/q/3b2cc2d0-8e77-4742-b1ab-12288b78a1bc/ https://minutesof.com/q/3b2cc2d0-8e77-4742-b1ab-12288b78a1bc/ “So I was like, well, in order to pull that off, we really have to do good for our last round's investors and kinda had a hefty negotiation to get the deal done.” — AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 climate corp Friedberg argues CRISPR Cas9's market arrival ten years ago was more consequential than Climate Corp's billion https://minutesof.com/q/0522078d-21ea-4b94-8166-598df1b7bd0b/ https://minutesof.com/q/0522078d-21ea-4b94-8166-598df1b7bd0b/ “And since then, hundreds of other gene editing tools have come to market, many of which are open sourced or royalty free” — AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 climate corp Friedberg says Climate Corp's average data use increased 40x every year for seven consecutive years. https://minutesof.com/q/20708ae0-c5ee-4bdc-9dd6-a71474cb6aa5/ https://minutesof.com/q/20708ae0-c5ee-4bdc-9dd6-a71474cb6aa5/ “In the seven years we ran Climate Corp, by the way, we did a study that our average data use per year increased by 40x every year for seven years.” — AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 climate corp