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What Max Hodak thinks about infrastructure

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Co-founder and chief executive of Science, a neurotechnology company whose retinal implant restores sight to blind patients; before founding it he spent five years at Neuralink.

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  1. Our readingA startup's speed is set by boring internal infrastructure — purchasing, recruiting, spending — and that matters as much as understanding the technology itself.

    Their wordsAnd so speed determines success and failure and speed is determined by infrastructure. This is driven by really boring sounding things like how well do your purchasing and recruiting and spending processes work. This is as important as how well do you understand understand the object level technical content of the thing that you're building.

    ↗Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com 10th of 22 in this recording

    startups

    Interesting

  3. Our readingDeep tech companies rarely fail because the technology does not work; they fail because nobody built the systems to run the organisation around it.

    Their wordsIt's like it's it's uncommon that these deep tech companies that fail because the technology doesn't work. They fail because once you end up with this organization of hundreds of people and thousand hundreds of thousands of square feet of physical infrastructure, you haven't built the systems to manage that.

    ↗Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com 11th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting