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The Challenges of Assessing a New Technology
Vancouver is also the person who venture capitalists call when they want to know if a battery startup has a real breakthrough and can actually deliver the product. There are lots of companies promising battery breakthroughs v Vancouver is kept busy it took a lot of phone calls on our trip so i wanted to ask him when somebody comes to you and says hey there's this new battery idea do you think it'll work should i give this company one billion dollars what do you do? "The difficulty in assessing a new technology is to view it with some optimism with a healthy dose of skepticism"
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