How to Avoid Getting Absorbed by Big AI | Top VC on Physics, Clean Tech and the Next Wave

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]How do I avoid building something that just in six or 12 months just immediately gets absorbed by one of these huge AI [music] companies?

[00:00:07]>> Don't try to be a faster, better, cheaper version of what exists. [music] See across the horizon and say, "Hey, what can I do which is net new >> [music] >> to change the world?" The next new waves are getting back to physics, fighting laws of physics, [music] and you need alternative sources of energy. So, clean tech was there. It's going to be back [music] in vogue.

[00:00:31]Cooling technologies are going to be extremely important. Power loss [music] technologies are going to be extremely important. Similarly, the world will move from copper to optics.

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