The Minutes of David Friedberg on commoditization https://minutesof.com/david-friedberg/on/commoditization/ Everything David Friedberg has said on commoditization: 2 verbatim quotes from September 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came… en Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:11:07 +0000 Friedberg paid $10,000 for 17 megabytes of weather data in 2006, illustrating how data costs have plummeted. https://minutesof.com/q/3dc33072-57bf-4e61-a569-42635d7e2d6b/ https://minutesof.com/q/3dc33072-57bf-4e61-a569-42635d7e2d6b/ “So you could put it a spreadsheet. It cost me $10,000 to buy that CD ROM. It was 17 megabytes of data.” — The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:54:41 +0000 commoditization Friedberg paid $10,000 for 17 megabytes of weather data in 2006, now equivalent to two iPhone photos. https://minutesof.com/q/bf9bc229-31ab-40a4-b367-e7b4ca3130df/ https://minutesof.com/q/bf9bc229-31ab-40a4-b367-e7b4ca3130df/ “It was 17 megabytes of data. That's like as much data as you get when you take a photo on your iPhone now or two photos on your iPhone pretty much.” — The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:54:41 +0000 commoditization