Aravind Srinivas
8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Aravind Srinivas · across every show →
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Apr 25, 2023 bullish
Apr 25, 2023
Srinivas: Iteration speed is the only path to success without product clarity
“If you don't have a clear idea of like, you know, which product you're going to build or which market you're going after and you still want to be giving, giving yourself a shot at success iteration speed is the only thing that you can hope for.”
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Srinivas: Only pursued a US PhD because it was fully funded
“To be very honest, I only came to the United States for doing a PhD because there was no other way for me to come to the United States. Like I could, I couldn't take a loan for a master's or something like that. So a PhD is fully funded and like sponsored. So …”
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Apr 25, 2023
Srinivas: Startup founders cannot hedge across multiple projects like academics do
“In academia, you're basically taught to hedge. You have like one first author project and like three or four co-author projects, and like one of them might become a big hit and might change your career. Whereas that's not how you should do startups. Like you r…”
Apr 25, 2023
Srinivas: Trying everything at once destroys team faith in startup leadership
“Also as leader, if you want to lead the company and if you kind of do everything, the people will lose faith in you, right? They think you don't really have any clarity and that's why you're making them do one new thing every week. And so you have more respons…”
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Srinivas: Academic AI researchers should pursue radical alternatives to transformers
“I think it's best to look for alternatives to the transformer, alternatives to like language models, that sort of radical directions, then Trying to improve them because there's so much incentive for the existing companies to do that.”