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No, my point was that tiny bit wouldn't have worked with this. Some startup get benefit of scale like Tesla or OpenAI or Uber. If they are constrained in how mu
by YetAnotherNick 3y ago
No, my point was that tiny bit wouldn't have worked with this. Some startup get benefit of scale like Tesla or OpenAI or Uber. If they are constrained in how much money they could burn they wouldn't have gotten anywhere. They all chose to not do calculation on RoI and won(but most would lose). To make vertical farming successful we need new discoveries and inventions that requires money and has uncertain success probability.
Startup investors are wary of the fact that they are more likely going to loose all of the money.
- bluGill 3y agoTiny would have been enough to run the math. Some things do need a large scale to work. However you should do whatever prework is needed to run that math before investing in scale.
- YetAnotherNick 3y agoI don't think you are getting my point. The math of RoI can't be run as the probability is uncertain. One example is OpenAI invested multiple billions in research and just out of pure luck found PMF for ChatGPT which even they said they didn't expected. Vertical farming is like that. You need miracle to make it better than normal and miracle requires huge chunck of money to even have non zero probability.