Cloud Storage
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
We Live to Build 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
6 statements about Cloud Storage, every show
Yoko Li: Pokémon GO charges thousands of times underlying storage costs
“And as an infrastructure investor, I invest in storage businesses. And then when I look at how much I need to pay for like, 30 extra Pokemon, it was thousands of times more expensive than what storage is.”
Surveillance CEO Barry Levine refuses cloud storage due to fundamental distrust
“Maybe being old fashioned about all of this, I don't trust the cloud. Therefore we do not store information on the cloud. And we do store it on our own backups.”
McCullough: Dot-com failures like cloud storage were just executed too early
“When you go into the dot com era stuff in those chapters, you're seeing all the things like grocery delivery, like cloud computing, cloud storage, and things like that, that were always good ideas, but seemed like the most boneheaded wrong ideas at the time be…”
Benet: Adding latent storage capacity would drastically lower market prices
“Like, there's exabytes of storage that are not in use right now, and that if you were to add them to the market, you would drive the price down significantly.”
Benet: Filecoin is an enterprise cloud storage replacement, not consumer Dropbox
“Filecoin is not to be seen as a Dropbox replacement, although there will be Dropbox-like things that build on top of Filecoin. I think you should think about Filecoin as replacing cloud storage. So it's something that Dropbox would use.”
Arielle Zuckerberg: AI integration will become standard like cloud storage
“The product was artificial intelligence that you integrated into your product, but I don't know, I think that in the future, it'll kind of be like storing things in the cloud, like, it'll be assumed and expected that you have integrated artificial intelligence…”