Software is Eating the Hard Tech Talent

The driver of the shortage of exceptionally talented hardware engineers

Yesterday my post on X struck a bit of a nerve within the engineering communities that follow me. If you know me and how we like to invest at AC, we’re ruthlessly focused on the quality of early engineering talent, and lately experienced electrical engineers have been some of the hardest to find! I was super curious why…

Some of the replies were enlightening. Here’s one of my favorites:

Or this one, which sort of blames the quant shops for the brain drain:

But this one gave me some hope that the tide may be turning:

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