I read that in the sense that you don't need very many ("a bunch") of PhDs in a small company. That does not imply that one or a few people of that background m

I read that in the sense that you don't need very many ("a bunch") of PhDs in a small company. That does not imply that one or a few people of that background might not be useful. If AI is an integral part of my startup I would prefer to have someone with adequate experience in the founding team or very early hire. 90% of the work might not be super deep fundamental design decisions or debugging.