Land
topic on 7 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
the Neon Show 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
Catalyst 
the Green Blueprint 
How I Built This 
20VC
9 statements about Land, every show
Browder invests all personal earnings into land instead of stocks or cash
“In terms of like my diversification retirement I take all the money I make and I buy land. I don't put it in the stock market. I don't buy, I don't keep it in cash because I think that the dollar is, it doesn't have a good future. I don't buy bonds or anything…”
Real estate development plans must conform to the land, not vice versa
“Make your plan. Conform to the land, not the other way around. Either work with it or walk away.”
Janous: Land represents just 1% of a data center's 15-year total cost.
“I mean, on a total cost basis, you know, over a fifteen-year period, and, you know, TCO is the way we think about it in the world, land is about one percent. Of the cost to operate a data center. You know, the full stack with servers and everything.”
Shankar: Land will never decline in value over the long term
“So if you look at it over a long period of time, I don't think land will ever decline in value.”
Shenoy: Indian Banks Cannot Lend for Land Acquisition, Unlike NBFCs
“So for instance, HDFC as a NBFC could lend to land. It was one of the largest lenders to land. Banks cannot lend to land.”
Haspel: Grazing utilizes land largely unsuitable for other purposes
“And the thing about grazing is that it actually, it does make use of land that is not so great for other things.”
Lubershane: Solar PV and motors require 50x less land than animal power
“But the total efficiency, if you take solar PV and then run that electricity through an electric motor to do useful work, It's on the order of probably 15 to 20%. So the upshot here is we need like 50 times less land today to get the same amount of energy, use…”
Kann: Land availability will become a major bottleneck for decarbonization
“Land, I think, will become a big one. Kind of no matter how you slice it in terms of what the big swaths of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation Solutions are going to be. They're going to be pretty land intensive. Solar and wind obviously are very land intensi…”