Broadband
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Emanuel: U.S. faces massive skilled trade shortages in data centers and defense
“You're 500 to 600,000 electricians short just for data centers. Broadband, 150,000. You can't build submarines because we don't have pipe fitters and plumbers.”
Sundheim: SpaceX Starlink Will Drastically Undercut Other Broadband Options Within Years
“I think that the cost, they've come so far down the cost curve, I think that in a relatively short amount of time, like months, few years they are going to be dramatically cheaper than, Any other form of delivering broadband.”
Lewinsohn: Fixed wireless drove 150% of US broadband growth last year
“It was a 150% of the growth last year in broadband across the country.”
Feldman: AI inference speed will unlock new industries like broadband did
“If you remember Blockbuster, right. First, I mean, let's look at the history of that. You're exactly right. First, we used to drive to Blockbuster to get a DVD, right, or a video. Then Netflix was mailing them to us, right? And then we got broadband. And there…”
Andreessen: Compelling software interfaces force the adoption of infrastructure like broadband
“If we designed for broadband, like the, if it's a compelling enough user interface, it will actually cause broadband to happen.”
Dixon: A 2003 Pew study showed most Americans did not want broadband
“My book, I say there was a Pew study. I think it was 2003 that asked Americans if they want broadband and the majority said no.”
Woolley-Wilson: Almost 90% of kids have broadband and device access
“Now the good news is that almost 90% of kids have access to broadband and devices, but that doesn't help the 10% that doesn't.”
Fred Wilson: YouTube succeeded due to broadband tipping and social sharing
“I think the two big moves that That made YouTube successful, whereas all the people who tried YouTube before YouTube were broadband, that's like, 80 to 90% of it, and also social sharing.”
Dixon: Late-90s McKinsey study predicted broadband would fail to gain adoption
“There was a famous McKinsey study, it was like late nineties or something, like, would you want broadband, and no one said, and they surveyed people, and they were like, why would I pay, and it basically, but people said no, and they, people had concluded that…”
Dixon: Late-1990s McKinsey study wrongly predicted broadband failure
“There was a famous McKinsey study, it was like late nineties or something, like, would you want broadband, and no one said, and they surveyed people, and they were like, why would I pay, and it basically, but people said no, and they, people had concluded that…”