Dr. Ali Agha's journey from NASA to founding FieldAI, highlighting his expertise in AI and robotics and his passion for product.
Dr. Ali Agha's journey from NASA to founding FieldAI, highlighting his expertise in AI and robotics and his passion for product and customer obsession in deep tech startups.
I think one of the things we I would say got right and I would I would recommend to any sort of next generation who want to come into entrepreneurship and building a company is is obsession with the with the product and and and customer. I think this served us well and and the best. We as a technology team, we had the risk of being able to solve any problem which might seem good, but in a startup sector it could be dangerous because if you're technologically very capable, right? You can actually solve any problem that somebody throws at you and then find yourself in a situation that okay, I solved incredible problems, a lot of satisfaction in um the the models I built, the solutions I built, but might be too late to to to at some point to realize that okay, is it going to be actually something people are going to adopt because adoption in tens of solutions is very different that
millions, right? And in millions is a very different game from the the ROI perspective, from the cost perspective, from what exact value customer wants from and and I think the if I would share one thing is like thinking about those elements early on is extremely important especially for very deep deeply technical sort of founders, right? Because then you have a risk of getting having having too much fun in in building a solution that again might be too late at some point to to go back and and and a course correct. So, yeah, I I think the obsession with the with what actually would enable the solution to be deployed at millions and bake that into your framework both on the business side and the technology side, I think would be the most critical thing to to build a type of a startup that we are building, a deep tech startup.