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Oetting: Genomic medicine will transform economy and lives almost as much as AI
“I think there's going to be almost as much of a change in, like, the way that our economy and our lives work from genomic medicines as from AI.”
Oetting: AI Productivity Will Substantially Mitigate US Debt in 20–30 Years
“I believe over the next 20 or 30 years it will make a huge difference. Yes. I just think in the short run, there's investments that need to be made to realize that. And I think that, you know, the way that our system deals with that is by adding to the debt.”
Oetting: Trade labor robotics is much further off than software automation
“Maybe robotics will get there and there'll be, you know, a real sort of conflict between, you know, whatever robot can do electrical work and electricians. But I think that's much farther off than you know, automating low-level web design.”
Oetting: A Human Will Be on Mars by 2050
“I would say we'll be on Mars by 20 50. I don't think we would, I mean, colonized maybe is like, depends what that means, but I think there will be a human on Mars by 20 50.”
Oetting: Board Members Violate Fiduciary Duties By Prioritizing Founders
“As an investor, you are legally, if you're on a board, you are legally responsible for being company friendly. You are violating your obligations if you are founder friendly or if you are investor friendly. You're supposed to be company friendly to all stakeho…”
Oetting: VCs will shift from founder-friendly to company-friendly as companies stay private longer
“But as companies stay private longer and longer, I think that that's going to change. I think what you're going to see is investors become more company friendly. And what that manifests itself in is looking at all shareholders, not just the founders.”
Oetting: Saronic employees work in person six days a week
“They also work six days a week in person, which is pretty cool.”
Oetting: Drug developers ignore manufacturing efficiency due to 90%+ margins
“Part of that's because if you're successful, it's, you know, like a 99% margin business. So if you can do it, if you're really bad and it's an 89% margin, who cares?”
Oetting: AI will drive massive 20-year productivity boom for physical businesses
“I think it's gonna be a massive productivity gain, at least for the next 20 years. If you're like, you run a construction company, or you have an HVAC business. Because right now you're paying some person 50 grand to make your website. Like that's done.”
Oetting: Trump Will Boost US Manufacturing Share, But Under 13.1% GDP
“I think that the Trump administration will bring, will make a big dent on that, that will improve, but I don't think it'll hit 13.1%.”
Oetting: 8VC has co-founded over two dozen companies over past decade
“And I think Joe and I and the rest of the EPC crew have probably done over two dozen at this point over the last, you know, decade or so.”