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Big data infrastructure startups launching in 2014 will lack successful exits
“If you're coming out as a Vertica today, you're not going to have a happy ending.”
Tech startup valuations in mid-2014 are unwarranted and unsustainable
“There's gonna be a lot of you know, broken hearts and tears are gonna fall, because I don't think that, that those valuations are warranted, are sustainable and that's too bad.”
Telecoms will eventually offer free service in exchange for consumer data
“I think the day will come shortly where, you know, I've got the Verizon family plan, and I pay, you know, a lot of money for my cell phone. And they use my information, my family's information. They monetize that. I think the day will come that if Verizon and …”