memory

5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Christopher Nguyen · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 neutral

What-if

Nguyen: Apache Spark Would Have Failed Earlier Due to Memory Costs

“Now Spark, if it was created six, five, six years before its time would have completely failed because memory was so much more expensive.”

Christopher Nguyen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:45 a16z Podcast | Making Sense of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Jan 2, 2019 bullish

Assertion Contradicted

Computer memory costs drop 50 percent every eight months

“The cost is decreasing very fast. It's about every eight months, the cost decreased by 50%.”

Haoyuan 'H.Y.' Li Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:25 a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance

Jan 13, 2020 positive

Insight

Rahul Vohra: The best games leverage emotion as memory's foundation

“The best games create strong emotions, because emotions are the foundation of our memory.”

Rahul Vohra Jan 13, 2020 ▶ 5:08 Superhuman's Founder on How to Move Beyond Gamification

Dec 27, 2022

Assertion Supported

Wozniak: Memory to store a single song cost nearly $1M initially

“The amount of memory that would hold a song Haas. You know, we were back in the days of tape. It cost about a million dollars, a good fraction of a million dollars.”

Steve Wozniak Dec 27, 2022 ▶ 27:03 a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022

Aug 11, 2026 bullish

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Garry Tan: Next computing form factor will clearly be voice and memory

“I think in the short term it'll probably keep looking like the way it is, but it seems inconceivable that it'll stay that form factor. Like, it's pretty clearly going to be voice. I think there's a lot around memory.”

Garry Tan Aug 11, 2026 ▶ 41:48 Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders

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