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Assertion Supported

Kleiner Perkins' largest investment check ever was into Twitter

“The largest check that the KP's ever written was in the Twitter.”

Mike Abbott Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 2:34 Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Assertion Supported

Kaggle competition winners rely primarily on feature engineering and algorithm ensembles

“If you look at, you know, who wins most of the Kaggle competitions, it tends to be, you know, combinations of ensembles of different algorithms, but it's really the feature engineering.”

Mike Abbott Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 5:03 Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Most data growth to 40 zettabytes by 2020 will originate from sensors

“If you look at the, you know, the forecasts that are going from the 2.8 zettabytes to 40 zettabytes in 2020 that's, most of that data is gonna be coming from sensors, right?”

Mike Abbott Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 17:01 Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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