If each experiment takes you literally 400 times longer than for a Google researcher, your chances of figuring out anything new drops dramatically. I was at an

If each experiment takes you literally 400 times longer than for a Google researcher, your chances of figuring out anything new drops dramatically. I was at an ML conference last year and I asked the panel: if I want to go forward in ML, should I rather do a PHD or work in the industry? a professor (!) answered that I should work in the industry as most research groups don't have the funding to be competitive.