ClaimsVinod Khosla

“Google made the economics of information free, to lots of people’s regret. Intel made IBM’s mainframes much cheaper. That’s disruptive.”

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, interviewed 7 December 2013 Outlook Business: Make a Great Company and the Money Takes Care of Itself (Khosla Ventures) archived copy

Factual Economics and markets

Google made the economics of information free, and Intel made IBM's mainframes much cheaper.

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Loose characterization of Google and Intel effects, too vague to test.

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Vinod Khosla, “Google made the economics of information free, and Intel made IBM's mainframes much cheaper.” (said 7 December 2013). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_6f7bd7338da7, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_6f7bd7338da7

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