hard tech
5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 6, 2024 by Jordi Hays · across every show →
Everything said about hard tech, oldest first
Nov 6, 2024 neutral
True Moats in Hard Tech Come From Compounding Hardware Operational Learnings
“And the real hard tech is going after like a five to 10 year old hard tech company that's competing in the same exact category of, as you, that has more resources, that has more learnings, that has more customer relationships.”
Mar 8, 2025 positive
Doricko: El Segundo engineered high-production aesthetics to make hard tech appealing
“It's been a very deliberately engineered aesthetic effort to make hard tech sick, because if it's not, then everybody's going to end up in finance again. The next generation, the lower class of zoomers, they're going to end up doing software engineering.”
Apr 17, 2025
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Tan: YC Spring 2025 batch is 90% AI, batch revenue growth hit 12%
“It's like 90% AI. It's about 10% 11% hard tech, which is awesome. And then the really crazy stat is, you know, how the last four batches, about the last year you know, the batch itself as a whole has been growing revenue by 10%. This time it's 12.”
Feb 20, 2026 negative
Palmer Luckey claims the US lacks banks aligned with deep tech
“I realized that you didn't have banks that were aligned with the United States, interests that were aligned with deep tech, hard tech, energy, the things that are really complex and hard to understand, but that do really matter, ah, that could also serve them …”