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Prediction Held up
Benet: Decentralized storage nodes will beat AWS on unit economics
“Our bet there is that yes, that there's a whole bunch of places and cases where Certain individuals or groups in the world have access to either really cheap storage or storage that's positioned well in the network that is kind of like, you know, somewhere bet…”
Juan Benet Jul 1, 2017 ▶ 1:56:18 IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
Assertion Supported
Petersen: Amazon operates roughly 400 undisclosed private-label brands
“They have like 400 different brands now that you don't even realize are Amazon.”
Ryan Petersen Aug 30, 2018 ▶ 9:52 Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
Assertion Supported
Kilar: Three of Jeff Bezos's direct reports have tenures of 19-20 years
“My peers, three of my peers who are there today, they are there 19 years, 19 years, and 20 years in terms of other direct reports of Jeff.”
Jason Kilar Jun 1, 2017 ▶ 17:07 Scaling Culture | Jason Kilar, former Hulu CEO · Y Combinator
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