Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
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Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
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#2What is this website? First it was the underwear post and now this. Is this the new Medium?
Re: Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
#3What is this website? First it was the underwear post and now this. Is this the new Medium?
Looks like there's a pretty steady stream of them https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mitadmissions.org
Re: Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
#4The implication then that there are four quadrants: hard tech to easy tech, high tech to low tech.
Hard and high:
- cure cancer
- colonize Mars
- live forever
Hard and low:
- make better syringes
- make better pills
Easy and low:
- match people that have cars with people that want rides
- match people that have houses with people that want rooms
Easy and high:
???
Re: Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
#5The implication then that there are four quadrants: hard tech to easy tech, high tech to low tech. Hard and high: - cure cancer - colonize Mars - live forever Hard and low: - make better syringes - make better pills Easy and low: - match people that have cars with people that want rides - match people that have houses with people that want rooms Easy and high: ???
Self driving cars? Geohotz made one by himself... In his man-cave... With a box of scraps.
Re: Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
#6The implication then that there are four quadrants: hard tech to easy tech, high tech to low tech. Hard and high: - cure cancer - colonize Mars - live forever Hard and low: - make better syringes - make better pills Easy and low: - match people that have cars with people that want rides - match people that have houses with people that want rooms Easy and high: ???
I'd say neuro tech for gaming/research/medical imagining is easy and high. Most of the market in the consumer space is trying to sell "calm" and shit (while people are spending a couple of hundreds on consoles + games vs vc funded hype machines repackaging headphones), researchers are building their own systems and using it for papers that at a cost of I'm staying the hell away from the reality distortion field that is the %80-%90 of the industry right now lol
Re: Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
#7The implication then that there are four quadrants: hard tech to easy tech, high tech to low tech. Hard and high: - cure cancer - colonize Mars - live forever Hard and low: - make better syringes - make better pills Easy and low: - match people that have cars with people that want rides - match people that have houses with people that want rooms Easy and high: ???
Well, given that there is a causal link between the highness of the tech and its difficulty, I'm not sure you truly have "easy and high". Maybe you can find "medium-hard and high", but I think that "high" precludes the "easy".
Re: Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
#8The implication then that there are four quadrants: hard tech to easy tech, high tech to low tech. Hard and high: - cure cancer - colonize Mars - live forever Hard and low: - make better syringes - make better pills Easy and low: - match people that have cars with people that want rides - match people that have houses with people that want rooms Easy and high: ???
Self driving cars? Geohotz made one by himself... In his man-cave... With a box of scraps.
That says something about him, not about the tech!
Re: Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
#9The implication then that there are four quadrants: hard tech to easy tech, high tech to low tech. Hard and high: - cure cancer - colonize Mars - live forever Hard and low: - make better syringes - make better pills Easy and low: - match people that have cars with people that want rides - match people that have houses with people that want rooms Easy and high: ???
Easy and high would be things that exist already somewhere in the world but not available to people who need them the most.
Things like providing education, internet access, clean water, sanitation and financial literacy to people in remote and developing countries.
Re: Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman
#10The implication then that there are four quadrants: hard tech to easy tech, high tech to low tech. Hard and high: - cure cancer - colonize Mars - live forever Hard and low: - make better syringes - make better pills Easy and low: - match people that have cars with people that want rides - match people that have houses with people that want rooms Easy and high: ???
Self driving cars? Geohotz made one by himself... In his man-cave... With a box of scraps.
Love the reference