academia

“I've caught myself looking to science fiction much more than to, you know, research or academia when it comes to new technology advances.”

“I really feel like venture is kind of the academia of tech, right? We kind of create all these mental models for how we think the world works, and we go, we do experiments to test whether or not they're real”

“The startup ecosystem is certainly in a much better shape than for example, like academia, where academia is incredibly siloed.”

“And that before you could get to the public intellectual side, you'd have to spend at least 20 years, you know, kind of being a very, very, very focused and narrow scholar”

“So merit double blind is the gold standard. Unfortunately, merit double blind is not the standard, right? Like it's like very, very rare. I think never does might be better than some of the crazy shit people are doing to decide who should be appointed into, es…”

“Eventually I realized that the way to actually solve this problem was not in academia but in the industry. And to properly solve it in the industry, you'd have to start a company.”

“The thing I actually would look for is are they married to a problem or are they married to impact? Sometimes researchers are very much focused on a problem, and something about that problem fascinates them. But oftentimes it's just not a good company, or it's…”