KPReddy 00:26:25.542 - 00:26:37.622 Yeah. I mean, 100%. And you know what's interesting? My eldest son is a mechanical engineer, he swore, Dad, I'm not going to be in your industry. He's working for an architecture firm right now. He is building an innovation department for them.
Randy 00:26:37.726 - 00:26:38.198 Cool.
KPReddy 00:26:38.294 - 00:29:01.998 But he swore off it. I think the one thing that our industry just makes it so appealing is we deal in the tangible. I worked for Frank Gehry, so I drive by buildings that I worked on that I was involved with, and I might have had a tiny little slice. I'm in the Bay area and I worked on the Apple campus. So when I drive by there, I mean, I had a little tiny part in it, but it feels like it's mine.
That's a great feeling,. The satisfaction around these things.
And so I think we have that going for us, but I think we have to think about what it is that we do. And you know what? When you think about when you graduated when you went to school for this stuff, you wanted to go do things of impact and we shaped society. That is our business. Our business isn't doing door details. That is not our business.
Doing drawings is not our business.
So my real hope for the industry is if we leverage AI to do a lot of our grunt work, it gives us a lot more time to serve society in a more meaningful way because I don't think we're doing it as meaningfully as we should be. We are the ones that should be solving a water crisis, an affordable housing crisis. It's not politicians, it's us. But we're too busy drawing drawings. We're too busy doing that stuff to work on solving the big problems. My hope is we can get back to solving the problems and let AI do the groundwork for us. The other point I'll make is firms that do not approach this the right way, their best people will leave and start firms.
KPReddy Email: kp@shadow.vc Website: Shadow Ventures
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