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40. Aaron Jacobson, NEA - The Golden Age of Industrial Automation

Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Podcast

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The Golden Age of Automation

Aaron Carroll: I don't think a day can go by now without some Wall Street Journal headline outlining how bottlenecked our global supply chain is. So the only way you're going to actually be able to manufacture and bring jobs that were formerly international into the US is through automation. It's something else about the labor shortages also immigration policy which has gotten more conservative making it harder to find a labor for this kind of work. He says we have single points of failure that really need to evolve into more complex distributed approaches with redundancy and flexible capabilities. The macroeconomics and technology trends is what I think is in lock the goal major of automation for entrepreneurs and investors today.

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