Sensors

topic on 10 shows · 17 statements across 17 episodes

the Y Combinator Startup Podcast Lenny's Podcast No Priors the Official SaaStr Podcast Invest Like the Best the Green Blueprint Top Founders the MAD Podcast the a16z Podcast 20VC

17 statements about Sensors, every show

SAASTR Insight
O'Driscoll: Vertical AI apps combining sensors with models are highly defensible
“If you're doing kind of a combination of software and sensors, you've got something that's obviously manifestly different. You know, you've got maybe visual sensors. You've got touch sensors. You got something out there that says, oh, but I ain't going to star…”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 15, 2026 ▶ 19:28 Software Isn't Dead. It's Gotten Harder with Scale Venture Partners' Rory O'Driscoll
Fadell: Ambient smart home AI requires distributed, privacy-preserving physical sensors
“AI needs context. AI needs a lot of context. And in a home, you want to make everything very seamless. And the way you get best context is by having sensors properly placed around the home that don't necessarily invade privacy, but allow you to pick up a lot o…”
Tony Fadell Jun 7, 2026 ▶ 19:18 Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)
Levine: Effective AI Learning Methods Compensate for Deficient Hardware Sensing
“A good learning method can actually like compensate for deficient sensing fairly well.”
Sergey Levine Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 21:09 World's Top Researcher on AI, LLMs, and Robot Intelligence · Invest Like The Best
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Karpathy: AI innovation will move from digital unhobbling to physical interfaces
“First, there's gonna be a huge amount of unhobbling, and I think there's a huge amount of work there. Then, actually, it's going to move to, like, the interfaces between physical and digital. So, and that's, like, sensors of, like, seeing the world and actuato…”
Andrej Karpathy Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 56:38 Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Steinberger: Only apps with physical sensors may survive displacement by AI
“Only the apps that actually have sensors, maybe they survive.”
Peter Steinberger Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 11:37 OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Freise: Displaced European auto engineers immediately find jobs in defense and sensors
“When the automotive industry is shrinking because of some of the factors you mentioned, those people immediately find jobs in other industries which are growing. Whether that is censors, whether that is defense.”
Philipp Freise Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 46:45 KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Supported
LineVision can install its transmission grid monitoring sensors in 15 minutes
“We can install our sensors in like, 15 minutes, right?”
Karthik Rao Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 24:01 LineVision's quest to win over utilities
Janis: Grid-enhancing tech installs quickly by outfitting existing infrastructure
“It is, it's very low impact, and you can install these things very quickly, I mean, you're not reconductoring. You're not running new lines. You're simply outfitting existing infrastructure with sensors. This can happen really quickly.”
Brian Janous Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 25:06 New demand is straining the grid. Here’s how to tackle it.
NO PRIORS Insight
Schimpf: Military sensing is physically limited to five core sensor types
“There's still physics limits to all of this, and you only have like five types of sensors. You're really only going to be talking about. It turns out, you know, you're going to take a picture of something. It's either going to be thermal or it's going to be, y…”
Brian Schimpf Jun 1, 2023 ▶ 13:35 No Priors Ep. 19 | With Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Marinelli: Traction averages $3,000 MRR and 60 sensors per customer
“Well, our average MRR is basically three K per month. So and those customers, they have around 60 sensors as an average.”
Igor Marinelli Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 4:51 LATAM SaaS + IoT Grows 10x to $1.2m in ARR, $3.7m Round at $15m Valuation
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Crowley: Clarity factory sensors feature five-year battery and 5km range
“So we have sensors plugged into everything. So these super low cost sensors that have a five year battery Five kilometer range that you can click onto anything in a factory.”
Norman Crowley Mar 29, 2021 ▶ 5:05 Manufacturing Plant Software Breaks $100m Revenue, Just $38m Raised
MAD Opinion
Anthony: Autonomous driving cannot be solved with sensors and LiDAR alone
“You can't solve it with sensors. You can't solve it with compute power. You can't solve it with, ah, ah, LiDAR. You can't solve it by knowing exactly where everything, everything is.”
Sam Anthony Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 7:44 Human Intuition for Machines // Sam Anthony, Perceptive Automata (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wearable sensors have failed to meet clinical trial validation standards
“When I think about, first of all, I would say just in general in sensors is another place where there's been a lot of hype Above what, of expectations. I mean, we've been really trying to explore the use of sensors in clinical trials now for, in my own experie…”
Vas Narasimhan Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 43:10 a16z Podcast | The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines
a16z Assertion Supported
Rachel Kalmar: Automakers are installing biometric sensors to monitor driver drowsiness
“There are a number of car manufacturers who are adding these kinds of sensors in the car, whether for use in driving, looking at drowsiness, et cetera.”
Rachel Kalmar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:56 a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sparks: Consumer devices will probably adopt DNA or chemical identification
“Looking forward, I think we'll even see probably like DNA ID. I mean, sensors are getting smaller and smaller all the time. You know, you can detect so many different factors, like humans have, you know, unique chemical fingerprints even. So you could have som…”
Tom Sparks Jan 5, 2018 ▶ 9:05 Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
a16z Assertion Supported
Governments occasionally degrade GPS sensor accuracy intentionally, says Kathryn McKinley
“Occasionally your government will make the sensors bad on purpose.”
Kathryn McKinley Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 0:57 Kathryn McKinley
MAD Prediction Didn’t hold up
Most data growth to 40 zettabytes by 2020 will originate from sensors
“If you look at the, you know, the forecasts that are going from the 2.8 zettabytes to 40 zettabytes in 2020 that's, most of that data is gonna be coming from sensors, right?”
Mike Abbott Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 17:01 Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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