Money is power for stupid people.
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There is a YC incorporation company that didn’t scale (not meant to be a dig), so curious about what’s different.
Remember way back when when cigarettes were cool? Well fast-forward 70 years and that’s social media now.
In this case, it’s single cell rna seq. I’d argue we never got very far with bulk measurement RNA analysis because it’s not a functional technique, rather than us not having single cell resolution.
Look at the nobel prizes. So many of them have simple genetics or biochemistry at their core. It’s because those experiments were functional.
And before you tell me we haven’t yet had enough time for gene expression studies to deliver a nobel prize, I’d say well it’s been almost 25 years. Yamanka 4 factors is less than 10. CRISPR, also less than 10 should come soon too.
Sam Alton - Stanford Drew Houston - mit Collision brothers - mit/harvard Airbnb guys - RISD
We could go on, so let's do...
Please tell me honestly if you think google Facebook Amazon Microsoft would be where they were without the "traditional credentials" of their founders? Stanford, harvard, Princeton, harvard, respectively.
At this point all these SV demigods like Ravikant (Dartmouth/Stuyvesant-look it up) are just being irresponsible getting kids' hope up.
Compare around July 20, 2016:
Victors write the history books.
So much important work left to do, but congrats to the @Uber team."
I have no idea how prominent IBM wizards are in the design literature, but I'm a scientist and I can speak to the challenges of finding relevant literature when all you have is what search terms makes sense to you.