Chandra Krintz

7 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Chandra Krintz · across every show →

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Jul 15, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most farms lack reliable, low-cost internet connectivity
“Most of our farms are lucky if they are connected to the internet. And if they are, it's extremely low bandwidth, and it's very expensive.”
Chandra Krintz Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 9:44 Chandra Krintz
Jul 15, 2017
Assertion Contradicted
SmartFarm edge appliance runs AWS and Google Cloud workloads locally
“Anything that runs in Amazon and anything that runs in the Google Cloud platform will run on this appliance.”
Chandra Krintz Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 10:36 Chandra Krintz
Jul 15, 2017 positive
Insight
On-farm edge computing must require zero system administration
“If we're going to put some computation on farm, the system that we develop there must be lights out, easy to use. It must be self-managing, must be completely fault tolerant, must be like a TiVo box. You turn it on, it just works. Right? And you don't need a s…”
Chandra Krintz Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 8:31 Chandra Krintz
Jul 15, 2017 positive
Insight
Precision agriculture needs Amazon, Google, and Tinder-style analytics
“So in terms of analytics then, we need to make Amazon recommendations to farmers for things like irrigation scheduling or the application of inputs, fertilizers, pesticides, water. We need Google search for crop disease. We need Tinder for pests.”
Chandra Krintz Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 3:39 Chandra Krintz
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Krintz: Agriculture Is Tremendously Underserved By Technology
“We believe that agriculture is tremendously underserved by technology. It's been left behind in both software and hardware, although hardware has done a little bit better than software.”
Chandra Krintz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:16 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Krintz: Data will become farmers' most valuable asset over land and water
“I think the biggest change is that instead of thinking about some of the things we've been talking about here, water resources, amount of land, soil quality, the resources that we'll all be talking about that are going to be the most valuable to the growers th…”
Chandra Krintz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:43 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Krintz: AgTech Sensor Market Is Fragmented and Proprietary
“Turns out that these sensors, however, are proprietary, and they all do a little bit something different, and have different interfaces, and so it's really hard to go between vendors if you wanted to try lots of different sensors on your farm”
Chandra Krintz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:07 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
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