Winston Weinberg

So like this is a huge disconnect between VCs, I think, and the researcher community.

So what would you advise me investing?

What I would do is you can use the researchers to pinpoint who is the best researcher.

So in other words, if you ask a bunch of the researchers, not other VCs, ask a bunch of the researchers, who do they respect the most?

They have such a tight knit community and it's all merit based.

Like I'll tell you a group of people who do not manage up AI researchers.

That is not what they do at all.

for better or for worse.

And because of that, if you ask that community who are the best folks, they will triangulate for you and they will help you find.

And usually it's not the loudest.

They aren't necessarily the most famous, et cetera.

It's not like that.

Yeah, I think there's a combination of things.

I think the reality is what researchers care the most about is working on really hard and interesting problems.

And I don't say that as like bullshit.

Like I think that they're sometimes like to your point of like people just want to join hot companies.

Like a lot of tech I think is like people just want to join hot companies, right?

Researchers really genuinely do care about pushing research forward.

And I think what ends up happening sometimes is the leaders at some of these companies kind of change the direction of the company and the researchers are no longer interested in that direction of the company.

And that happens a lot at these big labs.