Dixon: Industry excels at iterative depth, while academia excels at fundamental rethinkings
Chris Dixon · a16z Podcast | The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale · Jan 2, 2019 · at 7:04
Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses why foundational computing abstractions like Spark emerge from university research labs rather than tech giants.
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“And I think that the theory we have is that that's because you kind of, you know, industry is very good at a kind of a depth search, right? Like, you know, continuing to iterate on something. But when you need to go back and fundamentally rethink how you do something, that's probably better done in academia.”
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