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Autonomous vehicle R&D dividends will transform all physical industries
“There's Going to be more value generated from the piece dividends of the autonomous car war. What I mean to say is that every industry in the world that needs to physically articulate the world around it is going to benefit from all of that technology stack, t…”
Avidan Ross Nov 5, 2018 ▶ 17:08 20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
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Engineers with advanced degrees will inevitably replace MBAs as tech CEOs
“The timing as to why is it today that we're going to see more masters and PhD engineering degrees at the CEO helm of companies than MBAs is because of those things. And it's taken a while for engineers like myself to build out positions in the venture capital …”
Avidan Ross Nov 5, 2018 ▶ 26:33 20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
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Root Ventures avoids hardware startups relying solely on product margins
“We won't invest in something that relies just on margin alone. From our perspective, that's not a venture scalable business.”
Avidan Ross Nov 5, 2018 ▶ 11:19 20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
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