For Dhaliwal, the “best companies” have founders who have the technical, academic background and also a deep curiosity about the world and the problem they’re trying to solve.
Sturtevant said he looks to academic research to help identify opportunities. Often times, he said researchers can be so “underwater” that they might not necessarily be at the place where they’ve decided whether to turn their academic work into a company.
While Dhaliwal said he doesn’t want to be in the position to help guide founders toward the problem they should be solving, Sturtevant said he has helped companies in this area.
“We do spend a lot of time helping these technical founders who are CEOs think about what’s the pull, why do people care,” he said.
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