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Collison: Sequoia is the only VC firm in top three for four decades
“And Sequoia has been, you know, the top firm or in the top three firms, obviously it's a subjective ranking, but call it, you know, a top, unquestionably a top three firm for essentially its entire existence. And there was no other VC firm that has been a top …”
Collison: Silicon Valley is the greatest geographic wealth concentration in history
“Silicon Valley is the sort of, Greatest concentration of wealth creation that I think has ever existed in the US on a per square mile basis, potentially that has existed ever in the world, right?”
Collison: Progress in physics slowed down substantially by 2010
“Progress in physics really felt like it had sort of slowed down pretty substantially compared to the, you know, The sort of, the period in which so much of what, you know, we were learning about you know, that, that, that's a broader period of discovery I felt…”
Collison: Cheaper land in top US regions would vastly outweigh landowner losses
“I think it is very clear that on a marginal basis, the social returns of cheaper land in the most production, productive region of the country would vastly outweigh the reduction wealth cut, you know, to existing landowners.”