scale: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/scale/ Everyone on the record about scale: 13 verbatim quotes from 6 people, July 2019 to July 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to its… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:13 +0000 H.R. McMaster: McMaster states mature technologies exist for emerging threats but have not been fielded at sca https://minutesof.com/q/daeac160-c3b7-49d2-abba-988efe579a4f/ https://minutesof.com/q/daeac160-c3b7-49d2-abba-988efe579a4f/ “There are mature technologies that that that we can apply to these emerging threats, but they they have not been fielded at scale yet.” — H.R. McMaster, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:45:16 +0000 scale Brad Gerstner: Gerstner says $200B of incremental revenue is incomprehensible in Silicon Valley history. https://minutesof.com/q/d8aca40b-82c8-4ecb-a41d-faf992c93daf/ https://minutesof.com/q/d8aca40b-82c8-4ecb-a41d-faf992c93daf/ “We're talking from 100,000,000,000 to 300,000,000,000. 200,000,000,000 of incremental revenue is incomprehensible in the history of Silicon Valley.” — Brad Gerstner, All-In Podcast Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:00:19 +0000 scale Brad Gerstner: Gerstner notes hyperscalers grew collective revenue from $150 billion to $350 billion in just e https://minutesof.com/q/3bca3627-39ad-451a-b22f-91c71ec6186e/ https://minutesof.com/q/3bca3627-39ad-451a-b22f-91c71ec6186e/ “Let me just give you a statistic. It's just eight quarters ago that collectively they were doing a $150,000,000,000 in revenue. Now they're doing $350,000,000,000 in revenue.” — Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital Tue, 05 May 2026 22:10:35 +0000 scale David Friedberg: Friedberg says a swimming pool of ocean water could power Earth for a year through fusion. https://minutesof.com/q/248d6228-3908-4d5f-ae9d-5dbe767fc55e/ https://minutesof.com/q/248d6228-3908-4d5f-ae9d-5dbe767fc55e/ “you could use a a swimming pool sized amount of ocean water to make all the electricity needed for an entire year for the planet Earth.” — David Friedberg, Chris Williamson Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:00:13 +0000 scale David Friedberg: Friedberg claims fusion could produce Earth's annual electricity from a swimming pool of ocea https://minutesof.com/q/2db3d295-6041-4662-a566-82e4ab2732f5/ https://minutesof.com/q/2db3d295-6041-4662-a566-82e4ab2732f5/ “Basically, you could use a a swimming pool sized amount of ocean water to make all the electricity needed for an entire year for the planet Earth.” — David Friedberg, Chris Williamson Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:00:13 +0000 scale Brad Gerstner: Gerstner says 50 million of 65 million kids under 18 would never own a compounding account with https://minutesof.com/q/443ec3b2-6c8e-4b4b-a0a9-8f5b79f5e7d9/ https://minutesof.com/q/443ec3b2-6c8e-4b4b-a0a9-8f5b79f5e7d9/ “Under the age of 18, that's 65,000,000 kids. And of those 65,000,000, 50,000,000 would never own an account that compounds.” — Brad Gerstner, Prof G Markets Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:00:48 +0000 scale David Friedberg: Friedberg states his Climate software now covers 200 million acres globally and runs on 80% o https://minutesof.com/q/1eb2c09d-99cc-406d-92fb-38c5f2d792f3/ https://minutesof.com/q/1eb2c09d-99cc-406d-92fb-38c5f2d792f3/ “And I think 80% of harvesters and tractors in The US have an iPad that runs that software, and it's connected to the farm equipment.” — David Friedberg, Venture Europe Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:21:31 +0000 scale Dylan Patel: Patel predicts OpenAI will have 300,000 to 500,000 GPU equivalent clusters next year across multi https://minutesof.com/q/5492cf90-3909-4724-b977-ca95780911b3/ https://minutesof.com/q/5492cf90-3909-4724-b977-ca95780911b3/ “Next year, 300 to 500,000 depending on whether it's one side or many. Right? 300 to, like, 700,000, I think, is the upper bound of that.” — Dylan Patel, Dwarkesh Patel Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:59:36 +0000 scale Brad Gerstner: Gerstner states Google processes 10 billion queries daily, more than one per human globally. https://minutesof.com/q/8e7be5a2-17b0-49d8-9a24-56fc5639b0d4/ https://minutesof.com/q/8e7be5a2-17b0-49d8-9a24-56fc5639b0d4/ “So, you know, a couple queries are more than a query for every human on the planet, and it has the most efficient system in the world for doing that.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:20:31 +0000 scale Howard Marks: Marks says his memo distribution has grown from 100 clients to 300,000 subscribers over decades. https://minutesof.com/q/3107ae2a-40ae-4ee9-9979-63f23f77fed6/ https://minutesof.com/q/3107ae2a-40ae-4ee9-9979-63f23f77fed6/ “I think now we're up to 300,000 subscribers and hopefully they pass it around. And and so it's it's a lot of fun now and I get great responses and I enjoy it.” — Howard Marks, David Perell Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:20:30 +0000 scale Howard Marks: Marks reports growing his memo distribution from 100 readers in 1990 to 300,000 subscribers toda https://minutesof.com/q/3887a1e4-2f29-477a-aa05-ed82e40e3026/ https://minutesof.com/q/3887a1e4-2f29-477a-aa05-ed82e40e3026/ “So, you know, from probably a 100 or so in 1990, I think now we're up to 300,000 subscribers and hopefully they pass it around.” — Howard Marks, David Perell Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:20:30 +0000 scale David Friedberg: Friedberg claims a 10-meter cube of ocean water could provide all of Earth's electricity via https://minutesof.com/q/ef1e9b21-e55b-4526-85b4-3ea6ea2568ae/ https://minutesof.com/q/ef1e9b21-e55b-4526-85b4-3ea6ea2568ae/ “if you look at the amount of electricity that humans consume on planet Earth today, it would take about a 10 meter by 10 meter by 10 meter cube of ocean water to make all the electricity that we consume today if we could put that into a plasma fusion system” — David Friedberg, The Julia La Roche Show Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:21:04 +0000 scale Bill Gurley: Gurley argues network effects decay as platforms scale, citing LinkedIn as an example of diminish https://minutesof.com/q/0a37b963-304d-4359-a925-0b2554335b04/ https://minutesof.com/q/0a37b963-304d-4359-a925-0b2554335b04/ “Like what's the value of an incremental member joining LinkedIn? It's probably less than what the value of the 10,000 person that joined LinkedIn.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:30:00 +0000 scale