The Generalist

“What this looks like more concretely, I would say, is, like, we just train a model on hundreds of thousands or millions of hours of data of Every single type of possible physical interaction in the world we can think of, and then we now have a model that we ca…”

“One that we continue to see which has been quite surprising, is that we can take the model trained on everything, the raw pre-trained model, and then we can train it on a new task, and for that new task we might only ever use the right hand when we are demonst…”

“Another one is the ability to have some, like, ingenuity around how to use tools in a way that was also not trained for the task. So basically we can ask the robot to do a certain type of task where we've only trained it with one type of tool. We can give it a…”

“Yes, we are now starting to get into the modes where we can train a model on, on a new task in, in minutes.”

“It was the first model to show scaling laws really exist in, in robotics in, in in really in, in any significant way, I would say.”

“Gen one was able to across several different tasks and then many other tasks that we showed since hit these, like, 99% plus levels of reliability on just one single hour of robot data.”

“I think the generalist role is going to be the most exciting, right? Because the leverage of a generalist is where we are going to see the maximum returns, right?”

“So I think a lot of the people that will be rewarded the most over the next few years, they won't just be AI native and they don't just know how to use these tools really well, but also they're curious and they're generalists. And they cross over multiple disc…”

“And though we make a lot of, we talk a lot about Valley of Death, I think one of the challenges in our Valley of Death in the Series B and C funding is that we've invested in a lot of stuff and haven't told the story to help generalists understand it. And as a…”

“We're moving out of the era of the specialists and into the era of the generalists, and I think AI is just accelerating this.”

“The people inside of every can stay generalists for much longer, and I think that that may like sort of ripple out into the rest of the economy where instead of like gigantic massive corporations where like each person is doing like one little like button turn…”

“What AI is going to help us do is to enable generalists. In marketing, you might not be the translation expert, but you can now translate. You might not be the video editing expert, but you can edit your videos right now. You might not be specified like social…”

“Specifically AI really benefits generalists because it allows anyone to be a polymath before to be a polymath, you really had to be like a special kind of person. But now AI democratizes access to a specialization. You can become a specialist in a couple of da…”

“I mean, doing a bit of everything, being a generalist is, I think, much more important than it used to be. And the, if I'm putting together a product team today, I would re-obsess about getting as much of, as many skill sets as possible for each person I hire.…”

“An important result of that is that you tend to invest with generalists because we do not know what the market is going to look like in 10 years. We need these people to be building investment processes and have diverse enough interests that they can thrive ac…”

“Like I think there are people like the Lenny's and the packies and folks like that, that have just really, I'm a big fan of Mario Gabrielle and the generalists, like those types of people I think have done an incredible job building a real asset.”

“I decided in the beginning I wanted a team of generalists because I wanted people to be making relative value decisions all the time. What I'm seeing naturally over time is people do gravitate towards their specialties and it just happens.”

“There's a fine line between generalist and procrastinator.”

“The early days of growth can be managed by In my opinion, a lot of different types of people. I actually really liked the biz ops profile for the early days until you're like ready to really put some gas on the fire and, you know, hire a VP. But I think what's…”

“The specialist always wins over the generalist.”

“Everybody on the team is a generalist, so nobody's kind of married to any one geography or asset class”

“Generalists can be hugely valuable in those first few years, and they tend to thrive at the intersection of multiple disciplines, whether it's across quantitative and qualitative.”

“First, from a structural perspective, all of the senior people are generalists, and so if you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you're the private equity specialist, Every investment problem has a solution that looks like a private equity fund.”