[moultano]

One important aspect of these problems is that they aren't going to be solved by people who know only how to code. These are opportunities for mechanical engineers, biologists, statisticians, materials scientists, physicists ...

For many of them the research would have to be so speculative that it would be hard to imagine them occurring outside of an academic research lab. For a startup to tackle one of these, the bones of the technology would have to already be there.