Shawn Ryan

We basically view universities as just educational institutions until you go to grad school and you realize it's a research institution.

All of the great grades you get in undergrad, you realize they don't care.

They just care about their research.

This is not that.

This is some way the U.S.

is basically funding private institutions to do research at scale.

The overhead seemed crazy, but that's just how they fund it in Europe.

They'd be funding the schools more directly.

There's such a dichotomy between, I think, how I used to see MIT or Harvard before I went to grad school and how I see it now of completely different value propositions or priorities in the institutions.

And so how do you make sure research gets funded and is super cool?

And it's maybe that the experts in the field are the ones deciding how the resources for that field are allocated rather than it being kind of

okay, you know, these institutions get money from revenue streams from teaching students.

So it's like the best people in different fields all in one.

Or big tech says, ah, it's broken or whatever.

Like come into our private lab.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Wow.

Wow.

I just talk fast.