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▶ 51:23 · $MICRON · Smartphone memory priced out as all supply diverted to AI data centers
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Stripe

Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in conversation with John and Patrick Collison

2026-05-19 · 3 company · 13 thematic
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nat friedman

Former GitHub CEO (2018-2021) who led product expansion including Actions, Packages, Codespaces. Now leads Meta's compute strategy for AI infrastructure. Active angel investor (NFDG) and hands-on AI tinkerer building personal agents.

john collison

Co-founder and president of Stripe, the financial infrastructure company that provides payments and software tools to internet businesses.

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“smartphone shipments are going down because we've priced the memory out of smartphones. It's all going towards data.”
—john collison
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