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Hitchcock: SurrealDB will be the first database with multi-model time travel
“We will be the first database that enables you to time travel in your data in the different types of models that you can work with in SurrealDB.”
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Instacart projects reaching profitability and positive cash flow by late 2017
“And in the next 12 months, we're gonna be a profitable company, cash flow positive.”
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Skonnard: Adaptive learning bet can grow Pluralsight to $10B-$20B
“That's our big bet for the future that will, Take Pluralsight from being a billion dollar company to a 10, twenty billion dollar company, is if that actually works.”
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Kant: Poolside first compute online late 2025, 250MW by Q1 2027
“So at the beginning of Q four, end of Q three, so next year, we've got the first compute coming online. And then we're finalizing in Q one, 20, 27, the first you know, 250 megawatts, but already next summer, the next 250 megawatts starts construction. It's a s…”
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Gong's $200M Series D will fund the company past an eventual IPO
“This should get us like well beyond an IPO, like that, that's the path for Gong, like within like a few years.”
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Mehta: Customer success software market is becoming a power law
“Some spaces tend to you end up being a power law where one company ends up getting more of the space than the others. In other spaces, there's a lot of players, right? Ours is probably ending up a little bit more of a power law”
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Global unstructured data generation will hit 20 million petabytes annually by 2016
“Within the next two years, the amount of unstructured data that will be generated is somewhere in the twenty million petabytes a year figure.”
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Hebbia aims to scale to 300-400 employees by the end of 2025
“And so we were opening SF and we've already opened a London office which is incredibly exciting with goals to end the year at 300 to 400 employees.”
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~35 US states will enact data privacy regulations by late 2025
“I think by the end of 20, 25, something like 35 states in the US will have their own privacy regulation.”
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Moonhub AI will likely handle all five recruiting stages by mid-2024
“Today, you know, the AI can't do all five stages of the process I mentioned to you. It might do stage one, stage two, We'll probably get to stage five by mid next year, but in the interim, you have a human who's actually helping you with all those other stages…”
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Skonnard expects Pluralsight's enterprise pricing to hold while individual pricing drops
“And so over time, I would see the enterprise price point staying where it's at, and the individual price point coming way down.”
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US oncology EHR adoption will reach 100% by 2017
“And in oncology that's about 90% or so, and growing. It'll be a hundred percent within the next two years.”
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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?”
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Mostak: Storage costs will drop below eight dollars per terabyte by 2020
“They're saying that by 20 20, you'll be able to buy a terabyte of storage for less than eight dollars.”
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Mailchimp expects to hit 10 billion monthly emails by late 2013
“That'll probably be ten billion by the end of the year.”
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DataMarket will adopt D3.js once IE7 and IE8 market share drops
“For the technical guys in the room, moving from Protovis, which, what, which is what we've built our stuff on, and made compatible to Internet Explorer seven and eight, which is about 20% of the business traffic on the web still, ah, to D three in probably a c…”