Industry

“I think the industry has tried to attack this with facts. And really miss the emotional resonance of, like, people just aren't happy about this stuff right now.”

“I think we are going to, like, as an industry consume all of the compute and power available. Whatever the underlying architectures.”

“Frankly, most of the industry is going that way.”

“By being a professor in academic, we also have access to lots of healthcare data sets, which are very hard for industry to access due to many illegal reasons or regulatory reasons.”

“These innovations take so long and the discovery process can be so accidental, right, that It's perhaps not ideal for pure industry to take on, but once they show early promise, scaling them, and robustifying them, and generating data that's not only massive, …”

“It's part of why we're the first in the industry to go look at expenses and say, like, why are there two systems involved in buying every single thing you do?”

“Unless we as an industry are very principled about ensuring That the benefits of all the stuff we're talking about are felt in real ways at the community level... Then we will have permission. If it is not, we won't have permission.”

“But with voters, that dog does not hunt. They're not going to say I'm willing to lose my job and I'm willing to have my kid never really have gainful employment. I'm willing to pay higher energy prices so that China doesn't win. And so I think those in the ind…”

“I think if you want to be successful, you can go look at every single industry and you can say, okay, who is the dumbest people and what makes the most money? And if you go like attack that area, Probably pretty good space.”

“The whole data center rollout and planning is probably the single worst yeah, like, part of this whole debate for the industry.”

“Very few teams can move forward by subtraction. That is like, does not exist in industry usually. Very, very, very rare.”

“This is a market, an industry full of second rate talent. It started out as excessively low status”

“In the end, the only thing that matters is returns. The only question is how long does in the end take? We're in an industry which has very long reaction cycles. You know, you put in the money, you don't get single for five years, you don't figure it out for s…”

“Don't ask what you're doing wrong because people lie to each other, social consequence. Ask what is wrong with my industry.”

“I don't know if the industry would have survived another four years of the Gensler regime.”

“There were ideas being proposed by not just the government, but industry to require a license. To build frontier AI tools and for it to be regulated like nuclear energy.”

“In general data work has been far more valued in industry consistently than it had been in the research community.”

“Even to look at autonomous vehicles, I mean, as an industry, we've invested, like, what, a hundred billion dollars in it.”

“Most of the industry didn't even know that this circular chromosomal DNA was a mechanism for driving cancer as well as metastases and recurrence until Paul Michel and others identified this and developed diagnostics to look for it.”

“I think that there is like a herding into a much smaller number of names. I think that's quite a sort of understandable, like, human psychology here, right? The industry is still digesting the trauma of twenty-twenty-one and the pullback in twenty-twenty-two. …”

“The industry is kind of adding nearly about a crore new investors every year into mutual funds.”

“From a venture investor standpoint, which is where my brain works you know, the industry is so fragmented it's slow, it's underfunded and there's not a lot of room, you know, to innovate.”

“And then ultimately the inflationary spike that led to a lot of Price change in the industry last over the last few years started to manifest in terms of consumers eating out less or having less occasions, less restaurant visits.”

“My view is that I think academia probably should work on some different questions from what industry is good at, right? So if we are just only working on how to scale up the system, then obviously the incentive is not right. The, we don't have enough capital t…”

“If your industry has some kind of, like, city center where all the talent is, it's probably a good idea to go there.”

“What happened in India is that they said we'll give free power to farmers. The farmers stopped being metered, right? And when the farmers stopped being metered, you didn't know what was happening to the electricity. And so industry started conniving with the l…”

“So before this year, industry actually grew a significant amount. That one has always been underfunded relative to the level of emissions coming from that sector, and it replaced food and land use in that third vertical spot.”

“I would expect in the next few years, there will be this period of time where all of a sudden it'll be like Christmas just for the industry. It'll be like, oh, all of a sudden we all have all the, you know, sort of equipment power we need.”

“We basically have ended up in this weird place where, you know, industry has the dollars and the will To do a lot of, like, really big picture research, which has historically not been true, right? Business has been like this application layer thing”

“Industry around the world accounts for more carbon dioxide emissions than all forms of transportation combined, and that's largely driven by steel, cement, and chemicals.”

“Before 2014, call it, the industry was basically a fifty billion dollar a year industry in terms of deployments. Then you had a run-up where, for several years, it was around a hundred billion, and then in the pre-pandemic years, 2018, 1920, it was around a hu…”

“What I think we're more likely to see is I think the industry by and large did use lines of credit much more liberally than they ever have, and I do think that's going to pull back.”

“The industry has simply outgrown both in terms of its size and its desire for more size. Has outgrown the limited partner capacity to fund it for a period of time. There's just not enough money in the world to give GPs everything that they want, whether it's a…”

“So I think this is really where the industry is going to have a pressure point over the next two, three, four years. This is not a, oh, the market goes up 20% and everything's magically solved.”

“Academia as of now has just completely lost the battle. In AI research and development, the darker dots, and this is a long time scale at the bottom, show that in the early years of the current wave, a lot of the research came out of academia, but today it's p…”

“So in every domain, like AI starts off as a tool and then it goes up through the four levels. And so that's the thing to keep an eye on, is like, in, in your industry, if AI is starting off as a tool right now, eventually it'll become an assistant, then it'll …”

“Something must be wrong in an industry where they take, you know, weeks and sometimes more to make a decision that is like, they knew what the decision was before they started to do, you know, the work and the work has no value whatsoever. It's just that that'…”

“Typically in the industry, there's an unspoken rule that you don't scoop other people's deals if you learn about it from them.”

“I think there's a fair amount of laziness in the industry in using number of positions as a proxy for risk and concentration, just because it's easier when really it needs to be about sort of the sizing of those positions and the upside downside potential in t…”

“The currency in industry is, is money or financial, and the currency in academia is credit. And it just leads to interesting incentives. There's a lot of competition. People aren't kind of rowing the same direction all the time. You're trying to take credit ma…”

“The academy tends to be Depending on the school, five, 10, 15 years behind, behind actual industry.”

“People are going to be trying to adopt these policies. People are going to be quitting. Other opportunities are going to show up that are fully remote. And that again, you know, five or so years from now, there is going to be a major shift in the industry that…”

“If you're in CS academia, like, you know, high up and you decide to go to industry, even if you decide not to go to like pure industry, if you go into like industrial research, they almost feel people, you almost get the sense that people feel sorry for you. L…”

“These are larger con, you know you know, longer term contracts multi-year contracts. And once people have allocated budget to, you know, utilize one of the One of the products that we serve relatively low churn, lower than, you know, industry.”

“It's too early in the industry to say that what could happen, but I would say, though, some of the learning we have from the history that There might be some form of consolidation, but majority of them that it will be just smaller ones will be having a hard ti…”

“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 so…”

“I think electricity is maybe 10 or 15% of overall energy consumption by industry.”

“Industry and research are starting to come back together again, right? You go back to the seventies, there kind of was no distinction between the two. They were basically the same.”

“In aggregate, the industry is doomed to underperform by the extent of its fees.”

“Industry picked up on deep learning faster than academia.”