Erin Price-Wright

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

semiconductor manufacturing employees alongside folks who have come over from TMC.

So with kind of the rollout of the CHIPS Act, I expect as chip manufacturing comes back to the US, that is an entire class of jobs that we just have literally never had here.

Maybe we did

For five years in the 60s, right at the beginning of the industry.

And I expect reshoring will see a lot of those coming back.

I think another example more in the industrial sector is you have lots of industries that hired people.

When they all modernized roughly in the eighties.

So there's a large class of it's oil and gas, it's water treatment, it's

Chemical engineering and HVAC, there's a class of these heavy industries that introduced a lot of new equipment and new ways of operating in the late 80s, hired a whole bunch of people to work on it, and then essentially never really had to hire anyone else.

They're great jobs, there's low turnover, they're well paid.

And now we're seeing kind of mass retirement across some of these.

Heavy industries and companies really looking to incorporate more autonomous kind of control systems in the way they manage some of these processes, but there's no one to operate them.

So, what is the next generation water treatment engineer look like?

It's someone that knows their way around a robot, a control system, a PCB board.

They're gonna have to know their way around sensor data.

And they're gonna have to be able to understand how all of that integrates together to be able to troubleshoot when things go wrong.

So huge opportunities in some of these industries where we're just seeing massive labor gaps over the coming, I don't know, three to five years.

The thing that really stands out in our portfolio, especially when you look across industries like aerospace, defense, robotics.

It's this notion of a full stack engineer.

And I don't mean a full-stack software engineer.

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