Alex Wiltschko

And every single one of them that kind of aimed for that Star Trek tricorder vision, but didn't chart a path through kind of a reasonable business.

All of them that went right for the mountaintop, they're all dead.

And it's not because they weren't working hard enough.

It's because it's so freaking hard, right?

Like to solve that problem may require hundreds of millions or likely billions of dollars to build a device that can do what we really want it to do, which ultimately is what a dog's nose can do, which is detect disease and detect disease.

you know, produce at borders or drugs at borders.

Like to keep people safe and to keep people healthy, we want a device that you can hold in your hand, in your pocket, that smells as well as a dog's nose does.

And like, I actually don't think anybody knows how to build that in short order.

The world can change in an instant, so who knows?

But to really do that well, what the tack that we've taken is like, you have to look at that with complete humility.

and understand that like, man, before that thing gets small, it's going to be big as with all technology.

And before things are even in your home, they're going to live in a, like a warehouse or a special room, which is like, think about computers, like mainframe computers in the 1960s filled up the whole room and had specialized staff on it.

Huge.

Then they got smaller.

By the time Bill Gates came around, like you still, there are no personal computers, right?

He had to break into a company or a university to use a computer.

And then they became personal.

Right.

So like we're in the realm now where the ability to create smell and to read smell exists, but it has to be enclosed in a laboratory and in a factory, which is why we have both of those things.

We cannot fit a mass spectrometer into our phone yet.