Shawn Ryan

You can't just have a brilliant idea and get to be a part of this club in some sense because, again,

It's almost more like if you don't speak the language or the right way, people don't think you know what you're talking about or they don't understand you.

And so there's pipelines that are very limited and very much go through the US and out.

Almost like go through Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, MIT and out.

And that sucks.

But that definitely just says that it's not like we're behind in that sense, right?

I mean, I'm less of an experimental type of person.

I think a lot of, I mean, I'm excited for my phenomenological buddies if they think that they can get somebody to fund an experiment that the U.S.

wouldn't prioritize.

I'm happy for them.

I still think the things that I'm more excited about are still in Silicon Valley as far as I'm concerned.

But that's my own bias.

It's my own.

I probably don't know all the cool projects that people are doing.

I think that just the way that we... I mean, in the U.S., there's a lot more money that can go into innovation in a way that when the time scales for research in a company are so comparable to the ones in academia, sometimes that rubs me the wrong way.

I think that we're good at...

there isn't a problem of putting money into innovation.

So the question of like whose hands to go in or how to control, but it's definitely the exciting things in the States.

The States, you can move fast and break things in a way that I don't think you can many other places.

But probably in China, IP laws would be such that unless like, I mean, however we follow the law with like copyrighted material for training things, I imagine that they could have had a lot of