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Okay, here's an interesting question. What do you think of founders that have great ideas, but those ideas require a lot of money up from before it can become profitable.

Many from series A won't be enough. Okay, so deep tech comes to mind. You want to build a battery company, you want to build a flying car.

This kind of stuff, if you're going to go for something where it requires $25 million in R&D, right?

It's kind of a bridge too far and you have to do one of two things. One, you have to break the company down to its component parts and maybe build something that takes a little less money.

This is very hard to do. In your mind, you're saying, well, I'm going to build an electric company boom that was making sonic jets.

That comes to mind, building an airplane. That's going to be hundreds of millions of dollars. I think they started with building a little prototype unit that was smaller and maybe that was going to cost $25 million or something.

But those things are really hard. You have to have a lot of credibility. How do you build credibility? You either go the credibility or you narrow the focus.

One way to narrow the focus is if you wanted to build a robot, let's say, to do deliveries, right?

Well, you could build that little robot that looks like R2D2 that you see delivering burritos and Berkeley and other places.

So there were companies that were going to build hardware like that. And so they did what they said, you know what?

Let's just hack it together and get an experiment going and show that this could work. So how do they hack it together?

Well, they put phones in them. They had cameras that LTE and a person was driving and they were walking behind it.

So if you've never seen this, people simulated a robot delivering a burrito by literally like they were driving a like what they call as RC cars.

Like they're driving a remote control car. They were walking behind it with like a little RC controller and somebody would order a burrito.

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