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by choppaface 2537 days ago
Uber proved it's possible to burn a lot of money on a team that is ineffective due to needless infighting and excessive internal competition.
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In other words, you can't just throw money at the problem.
It's R&D and depends on a lot of new innovation to be solved (new ASIC hardware for real-time inferencing, new ML model types -- potentially a new breakthrough even).
There are some things that money can accelerate and some things it can't. Building a balanced, effective team is not a clear linear function of money.
You need more of a targeted money laser than a money shotgun.