Erin Price-Wright

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The a16z Show · Jobs of the Future, Harnessing Earth Observation, & Gaming Tech Advances · 20 Dec 2024 podcast

And that's gonna require this full stack skill set of people who can cross the hardware software chasm.

So I think we've really seen over the last two decades a mass migration of engineers to the software and computer industry.

And what I think we're gonna see is huge demand for engineers in areas like electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, controls engineering.

are gonna be in really high demand over the coming year as industries from defense to industrials

Manufacturing, even things like HVAC and water treatment are looking for people that are really ready to wrestle with and bring AI software into these really complex hardware contexts.

I think the last 20 to 25 years has really been the software is eating the world, not to steal our own tagline, but it's really true.

Most of the growth in the economy came from the software industry.

So, with first the rise of software as a service, and then more recently, the kind of explosion of AI, the skill sets that have really been in demand have been software focused.

But with

the kind of very recent crossing of the chasm from software to hardware, there's huge demand for

Engineers that can both speak software and speak hardware.

For example, we're not seeing that necessarily yet in degree programs, but we're seeing that in the demand in companies.

And so I think that's going to filter out into what people end up studying in school.

So the highest demand jobs in our portfolio today, other than perhaps AI engineers, are people who have full-stack hardware and software experience, whether it's mechanical, electrical, et cetera.

And what we're finding is that actually those companies are having to go outside of traditional tech feeder schools in order to find that talent.

So we're actually seeing an interesting rise of schools like

Georgia Tech, Colorado School of Minds, University of Michigan, some of these really hardcore engineering programs are really coming into talent pipelines for some of our top-tier tech companies in the portfolio, which is really interesting.

it something

There's definitely a spectrum.

And I would frankly really credit Elon Musk, both from the SpaceX and Tesla perspective, with a lot for really training up engineers that have fluency in hardware and software.

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