https://minutesof.com/on/data/ Everyone on the record about data: 32 verbatim quotes from 10 people, November 2017 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:54 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/e71732c3-e265-43e7-8be9-05f1f292bd59/ https://minutesof.com/q/e71732c3-e265-43e7-8be9-05f1f292bd59/ “On the price stability side of the Fed’s dual mandate, overall inflation—as measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index—rose to 3-1/2 percent in March.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches data https://minutesof.com/q/a8d917de-05e8-4dfa-9e28-7be55b0b50eb/ https://minutesof.com/q/a8d917de-05e8-4dfa-9e28-7be55b0b50eb/ “Year-over-year productivity growth swings from minus 2 percent to 7 percent, compared to the long-run average of just over 2 percent ( Figure 1 ).” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches data https://minutesof.com/q/ec1966aa-e9b8-44c5-a3d2-35ad94bef524/ https://minutesof.com/q/ec1966aa-e9b8-44c5-a3d2-35ad94bef524/ “The Fed's preferred measure of inflation, the one I talked about earlier, the twelve month change in the PC price index stands at 3.7%, with the six month change a little above four.” — Kevin Warsh, Reuters Business Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:51:16 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/31cac3ae-5d9a-4dea-ade7-d6ab420b0f19/ https://minutesof.com/q/31cac3ae-5d9a-4dea-ade7-d6ab420b0f19/ “The Fed's preferred measure of inflation, the one I talked about earlier, the twelve month change in the PC price index stands at 3.7%, with the six month change a little above four.” — Kevin Warsh, Reuters Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:51:10 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/11e68333-de1a-45f4-b446-9334f7498d7c/ https://minutesof.com/q/11e68333-de1a-45f4-b446-9334f7498d7c/ “We promise you that we will use the best data and the most precise data to make sure that our decisions are right for America, and they need to be right for the lobstermen of Maine.” — Howard Lutnick, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 11 May 2026 05:00:59 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/d91849f6-904c-47f6-8429-3cb70fa0f391/ https://minutesof.com/q/d91849f6-904c-47f6-8429-3cb70fa0f391/ “But it's like, what data do I have? That's why my two fifty ks to one mil context is trash anyways, because there's no data on this stuff.” — Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis Weekly Wed, 06 May 2026 00:55:06 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/680bc053-7fd3-4e9e-b390-198f3fe3c17d/ https://minutesof.com/q/680bc053-7fd3-4e9e-b390-198f3fe3c17d/ “we did a survey where we asked people if you could go back in time and start your career over again, would you do something different? And six out of 10 said yes.” — Bill Gurley, Silicon Valley Girl Clips Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:01:05 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/3bf71ed5-1400-4e1f-92a3-b6de2cdd3955/ https://minutesof.com/q/3bf71ed5-1400-4e1f-92a3-b6de2cdd3955/ “If you're unfulfilled at work, there's a 2023 Gallup poll study that came out and said over 50% of people aren't actively engaged at work. And the number that qualifies engaged is like 23%.” — Bill Gurley, Silicon Valley Girl Clips Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:01:05 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/7f935901-587d-4b6a-850f-e2b9f4a19ed8/ https://minutesof.com/q/7f935901-587d-4b6a-850f-e2b9f4a19ed8/ “there was a Gallup poll in 2023 that like 53% of people are disengaged at work. And that's not great. We've all heard about quiet quitting.” — Bill Gurley, On with Kara Swisher Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:18:55 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/9ad7d6a9-ed9b-44d0-adff-f46e57821794/ https://minutesof.com/q/9ad7d6a9-ed9b-44d0-adff-f46e57821794/ “make it, let's say, fully adapt it to the world of data in a way that no one else has seemed to have had the conceptual approach.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:00:46 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/6a55342f-75b1-4e62-b5fe-f93c299c6225/ https://minutesof.com/q/6a55342f-75b1-4e62-b5fe-f93c299c6225/ “pull together the diversity and complexity of a modern democratic security structure and make it, let's say, fully adapt it to the world of data in a way that no one else has seemed to have had the conceptual approach.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:00:46 +0000 data 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.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:54:41 +0000 data 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.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:54:41 +0000 data 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.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:22:17 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/ba063ec1-83a2-484d-bec3-cd582faa31bc/ https://minutesof.com/q/ba063ec1-83a2-484d-bec3-cd582faa31bc/ “absent ChatGDP, ChatGPT, maybe Google page views for a particular user are growing 4% per year. So we are consuming more Google.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:11:39 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/4447000d-1b79-4f74-a977-e4d8ea3ba6d3/ https://minutesof.com/q/4447000d-1b79-4f74-a977-e4d8ea3ba6d3/ “We know that kids who have an investment account for birth, they're more likely to graduate from high school. They're more likely to be financially literate.” — Brad Gerstner, Hoover Institution Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:07:35 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/a3d381d5-4119-43d8-86d8-2618fbe1e29a/ https://minutesof.com/q/a3d381d5-4119-43d8-86d8-2618fbe1e29a/ “I tried to pull together all this data a couple months ago, but something north of like 30 or 40% of The US working force is touched by the government as a customer of their business, the primary customer of their business or as the employer of those individuals.” — David Friedberg, Tom Bilyeu Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:00:38 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/8eaf019c-5b63-4084-9f1e-d9f702e716a9/ https://minutesof.com/q/8eaf019c-5b63-4084-9f1e-d9f702e716a9/ “when I started Climate Corp 2006, the first thing I did when I got a seed check to start the company is I went out and bought weather data, and I bought it from a company called RMS that sold weather data. The sales guy was a guy named Jeff Hamlin.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:55:12 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/9354b7cd-a74e-4029-b4fc-96fd9b14a07e/ https://minutesof.com/q/9354b7cd-a74e-4029-b4fc-96fd9b14a07e/ “And then a very smart, I was having a conversation with Melanie Mitchell from the Santa Fe Institute, who's a very smart AI specialist, and she thinks data may be what causes the asymptote.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:05:50 +0000 data 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.” — David Friedberg, AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 data 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.” — David Friedberg, AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/846aef76-f3a2-4cf0-b659-bf69ef31ceef/ https://minutesof.com/q/846aef76-f3a2-4cf0-b659-bf69ef31ceef/ “You have to understand that and process it, but it's not enough because everybody else has it readily available and it's quantitative, so everybody can process it.” — Howard Marks, Goldman Sachs Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:18:25 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/45c4865f-ee06-4ada-928f-3355a94e4c06/ https://minutesof.com/q/45c4865f-ee06-4ada-928f-3355a94e4c06/ “readily available quantitative information about the present can't help you be superior as an investor, or it's not sufficient to be superior.” — Howard Marks, Goldman Sachs Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:18:25 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/f0a76ee2-1f49-4271-ad00-0549fc49e249/ https://minutesof.com/q/f0a76ee2-1f49-4271-ad00-0549fc49e249/ “Microsoft wrote about this in a research paper ten years ago, or maybe not twelve years ago, the quality of a given AI algorithm doubles with every 10x increase in the amount of data you use to train that algorithm.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/f2487303-1ed7-41c2-82fc-7c3a214b4f0f/ https://minutesof.com/q/f2487303-1ed7-41c2-82fc-7c3a214b4f0f/ “I remember when I was CEO of NLG, just having a system like Cognos that could give me a report the next day of what we actually sold the day before felt like magic.” — Brad Gerstner, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:30:00 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/ae1908ae-e819-4c54-9cf0-ec2f373b1935/ https://minutesof.com/q/ae1908ae-e819-4c54-9cf0-ec2f373b1935/ “when we started thinking about the biggest trends, this was almost a decade ago, the post internet trends, the explosion of data, and how we make sense out of data to yield useful insights.” — Brad Gerstner, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:30:00 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/915665d2-7858-45c1-ba32-6daf8b4075da/ https://minutesof.com/q/915665d2-7858-45c1-ba32-6daf8b4075da/ “Forests make up about a third of our land. So far, we're we're burning three and a half million, so about 10% of our acres.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 19 Sep 2020 04:41:45 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/0b6e92d8-6e0f-47d5-8dfa-d84c99ae1082/ https://minutesof.com/q/0b6e92d8-6e0f-47d5-8dfa-d84c99ae1082/ “the data seems to suggest that people 60 who are healthy don't have sort of preexisting conditions are 50 times less likely to develop or there's a 50X greater chance for those 60 in terms of having a really bad outcome. And so for people 60 who don't have these preexisting conditions, it's just not,” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/d768013b-3fec-4913-82a9-60f73eb9a39a/ https://minutesof.com/q/d768013b-3fec-4913-82a9-60f73eb9a39a/ “it's been very well established in multiple papers from both Google and Microsoft research that for every order of magnitude increase in the data you use to train an algorithm, the quality of the AI doubles.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:30:00 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/585e22b4-452b-4998-98ed-1f84f746f495/ https://minutesof.com/q/585e22b4-452b-4998-98ed-1f84f746f495/ “All that matters is the quantity of data, and it's been very well established in multiple papers from both Google and Microsoft research that for every order of magnitude increase in the data you use to train an algorithm, the quality of the AI doubles.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:30:00 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/4be47518-8695-43d0-a49c-75d89b7fc9c6/ https://minutesof.com/q/4be47518-8695-43d0-a49c-75d89b7fc9c6/ “You know, thirty, forty years over the past thirty eight years, 171,000,000,000 in First Day Wealth Transfer.” — Bill Gurley, CNBC Television Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:35:22 +0000 data https://minutesof.com/q/cfdb898a-cf36-4f85-92f2-d3c406a2f12b/ https://minutesof.com/q/cfdb898a-cf36-4f85-92f2-d3c406a2f12b/ “In order to be successful and powerful in these types of areas, you need huge datasets, and you need them on both sides so that you can do the matching.” — Bill Gurley, CNBC Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:49:28 +0000 data