If the price performance of bandwidth keeps doubling about every 9 months, Amazon.com will be able to use 60 times as much bandwidth per customer in 5 years while keeping its bandwidth cost per customer the same.
Own records only Only the person's or their organisation's own records speak to it, so it is not scored.
Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
Reasoning
Per-customer bandwidth usage and cost are internal figures, though the horizon (2006) has passed.
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Jeff Bezos, “If the price performance of bandwidth keeps doubling about every 9 months, Amazon.com will be able to use 60 times as much bandwidth per customer in 5 years while keeping its bandwidth cost per customer the same.” (said 2001). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_f3110f392b07, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f3110f392b07
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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