cost: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/cost/ Everyone on the record about cost: 9 verbatim quotes from 5 people, December 2012 to December 2025, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:53 +0000 Gavin Baker: Baker says AI is the first time in tech where being the low-cost producer matters economically. https://minutesof.com/q/ca343e9e-3861-42a8-96b6-e02b5065cbf4/ https://minutesof.com/q/ca343e9e-3861-42a8-96b6-e02b5065cbf4/ “AI is the first time in my career as a tech investor that being the low cost producers ever matter. Apple is not worth trillions because they're a low cost producer of phones.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:05:00 +0000 cost Gavin Baker: Baker says AI is the first time in his career that being the low-cost producer matters in tech. https://minutesof.com/q/25b2d299-b64a-4ee1-a269-e4a8a062374a/ https://minutesof.com/q/25b2d299-b64a-4ee1-a269-e4a8a062374a/ “And this is really important because AI is the first time in my career as a tech investor that being the low cost producers ever matter.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:05:00 +0000 cost David Sacks: Sacks says DeepSeek's compute cluster costs over $1 billion, contradicting the $6 million narrati https://minutesof.com/q/c35e5045-0094-4d11-8d15-94e56f582513/ https://minutesof.com/q/c35e5045-0094-4d11-8d15-94e56f582513/ “you add up the the cost of a compute cluster with 50,000 plus hoppers and it's gonna be over $1,000,000,000.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:52:00 +0000 cost David Sacks: Sacks says the $6 million DeepSeek training cost claim should be debunked, corroborated by indust https://minutesof.com/q/73cecf18-6302-4ffe-ba6b-32c73ed695f1/ https://minutesof.com/q/73cecf18-6302-4ffe-ba6b-32c73ed695f1/ “On this one, I'm with Palmer Luckey and Brad Gerstner and others, and I think this has been pretty much corroborated by everyone I've talked to that that number should be debunked.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:52:00 +0000 cost Jensen Huang: Huang claims NVIDIA reduced computing costs 100,000x in ten years versus Moore's Law's 100x. https://minutesof.com/q/53685b45-189b-43d7-8cac-1d4cd5f4234c/ https://minutesof.com/q/53685b45-189b-43d7-8cac-1d4cd5f4234c/ “we drove the marginal cost of computing down by 100000x over the course of ten years. Moore's law would have been about 100x. And we did it it in several ways.” — Jensen Huang, BG2 Pod Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000 cost Bill Gurley: Gurley explains Strawberry requires 10X processing for linear improvement, meaning 10-100X infere https://minutesof.com/q/27a00324-83ae-472e-8e7b-d4900e14122e/ https://minutesof.com/q/27a00324-83ae-472e-8e7b-d4900e14122e/ “in order to get linear improvement, you have to do maybe 10X the amount of processing. And this is all inference. So what are the implications of that?” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:21:38 +0000 cost David Friedberg: Friedberg notes DNA sequencing costs dropped from $100 million twenty years ago to $100 today https://minutesof.com/q/9badaff2-e30e-40c0-9c9e-0b3fc6005a0e/ https://minutesof.com/q/9badaff2-e30e-40c0-9c9e-0b3fc6005a0e/ “Now DNA sequencing costs have gotten so cheap, right? Twenty years ago it cost $100,000,000 to sequence the human genome. Today it costs 100, and you can do it in a few hours.” — David Friedberg, Future of Agriculture Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:49:00 +0000 cost David Friedberg: So what's happened in biologicals is historically input companies would try and inoculate mic https://minutesof.com/q/c9380d4f-8ab1-40dd-a220-f5417416e861/ https://minutesof.com/q/c9380d4f-8ab1-40dd-a220-f5417416e861/ “So what's happened in biologicals is historically input companies would try and inoculate microbes or get them to grow that they were grabbing from the environment.” — David Friedberg, Future of Agriculture Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:49:00 +0000 cost Bill Gurley: Gurley argues smartphones enable apps to replace expensive dedicated embedded devices at dramatic https://minutesof.com/q/54ccbfdd-0496-470e-9db0-9e48af87348d/ https://minutesof.com/q/54ccbfdd-0496-470e-9db0-9e48af87348d/ “I mean we were talking earlier about local, the things you can do now that I can write an app instead of building a dedicated embedded device that would have cost $2, it's night and day.” — Bill Gurley, GigaOm Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:06:49 +0000 cost