Identifying Timely Trends

I would say for optics and photonics generally. And by the way, I think the timing actually still is now. I think the timing is for the next couple of decades, for that matter. I'm a firm believer that. And I sort of saw a theme and it had a thesis that what electronics was to the 20th century, optics and photonics and optical electronics would be to the 21st century in terms of just major innovations and iterations and problems being solved at global scale that can deliver massive amounts of value. And saw that as also the clearest path to be able to make a global change and also make a lot of money while doing it at the same time. So I think when it comes down to it, being able to identify broader themes, teams is a really interesting way and just sort of these trends that. And it's not going to be the stuff that everybody's talking about, frankly, a lot of times. Like, if everybody's talking about it, then it's probably like over. Like, you're going to have a lot of competition. You're going to have a lot of different people focused on things. Like, you want to find niches to be able to start off with that are specific now, in this case, like optifotonics, in and of itself a niche. But it's different in the sense that, for example, like most major. I mean, talk about universities, like most major universities, like you have like electrical engineering programs, you have computer science programs, you have other things, like photonics programs, you don't like. There's no. 99.9% of schools don't have. You can't graduate as an undergrad in photonics. That's not even a thing. Actually, Stanford's one of the foremost experts on that more generally, in terms of the level of talent that's had here. And even then, that's almost pretty much entirely the graduate school. So it's just interesting to see those dynamics. And the important part is, I think, is seeing interdisciplinary connections and just being able to actually ensure that it's applied to the real world and that there is a practical application of that kind of product or technology or whatever it is that you're building, as opposed to just doing, say, research for the sake of research, which I think is still a little bit of a struggle with the academic community, which nevertheless is extremely important for the fundamentals of everything that's done. But I think it can all benefit from more entrepreneurship.