Parr: Business operators can win by organizing brilliant deep tech inventors
Sam Parr · If I Had To Make $1 Billion... Here’s The Business I Would Start · Dec 8, 2023 · at 42:26
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss finding venture opportunities in hardware incubators and robotics labs by partnering with technical builders.
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“And a lot of these people who do this, they're not, a lot of them don't care about business. A lot of them are unorganized. It's like the typical like scientist who wears like, who forgets to put one sock on and only wears like one sock or like their shoes on, on the wrong foot. It's like, they're just like these brilliant people who don't necessarily care about stuff. And I think if you can be the organizer, you can win.”
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