New interview series from CTVC unlocked. @schrep sat down with @KimberlyZou and @SophiePurdom to talk about making the shift from the digital economy to the physical economy

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Gigascale founder and former Meta CTO @schrep says industrial robotics will grow faster than robots made for the home. "You're playing on hard mode, to start in the home." "I've shipped home electronics. People drop stuff. They spill wine on them." "There's all sorts of things that can happen in the home that I just don't have to worry about in a factory. So I think you're going to see [more robotics] in factories and warehouses first." "We already use robots in car factories all the time. So the question is, can you move into slightly less well-structured things." "If you look at a lot of factories and warehouses, there's a surprising amount of boxing and unboxing that happens... It's all done by humans now. It's a really hard thing to automate with a KUKA robot — every box is a little different, the bag gets stuck." "Those are the sorts of things that I think are going to be really good."

Gigascale Founder and former Meta CTO @schrep says new solar startups will go after installation costs rather than compete with China on solar panels. "If you look at a solar farm, you lay down all this steel and put up all this framing for the panels. When that panel was the most expensive thing on the field, then [startups producing solar panels] made sense." "But solar panels are now the cheapest thing in the field. All the rest of the stuff costs more than the panel." "I think what we're going to see is startups saying, 'Let's rethink how we actually deploy solar from a form-factor and automation perspective. And just go after installation costs.'"