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Shridhar: Bloom Energy Powers Two-Thirds of the Caltech Campus
“Two thirds of Caltech campus is powered by us.”
Captura's 100-ton pilot scale was dictated by garage floor space
“Physical sizing of the scale up was decided by the physical area inside that roll up garage. We hired a wonderful pilot engineer from Caltech. And I remember the first time I went into that garage after she joined, she had marked out on the floor where all the…”
Jensen Huang views pain endurance as a greater superpower than intelligence
“Of all the things that I value most about my abilities, intelligence is not top of that list. My ability to endure pain and suffering, my ability to work on something for a very, very long period of time, my ability to handle setbacks and see the opportunity j…”
Lonsdale: Early elite talent was essential to Palantir's recruiting flywheel
“The reason we were able to recruit a lot of the best people is we started with a bunch of the best people. So it's very chicken and egg. I, you know, from the chess world, from the math world, from Stanford computer science, from my friends who, you know, were…”
Lemkin: Y Combinator combines prestige of Harvard, Stanford, and MIT
“YC is Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Caltech all rolled into one. And even if you don't learn a goddamn thing from the program, It, all things being equal, you might as well go to Harvard or Stanford or MIT, right?”
Gracias: Valor Equity Partners employs a Caltech neuroscientist to evaluate people
“We have a woman who's got a PhD in the neuroscience of emotion, Caltech now, on staff, that helps us learn, as you said, always learning, about how to assess people and how to assess their emotional states.”
Joe Lonsdale aims for University of Austin's inaugural class in Fall 2024
“Fall of 2024 is our goal for the first class. Be about the size of Caltech at first is the hope.”
Mokyr: A dozen top institutions drive most major technological breakthroughs
“Internet or no internet, a disproportionate number of them come from a dozen institutions such as Caltech, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, you know, and Northwestern places like that.”
Preskill: Feynman Insisted on First Principles Over Expert Literature
“Feynman he always wants to think things through for himself. From first principles rather than rely on the guidance from experts who have thought about these things before.”
Adhikari: Laser radiation pressure physically moves LIGO's 40-kilogram mirrors
“There's so much laser power that when you, it's weird to think about, but there's so much laser power when we hit the mirror, it moves the mirror. And the mirror, if you, to imagine it, is about this big. And it is 40 kilograms”