Cantos founder: deep tech progress comes from layered sustaining innovations, not one breakthrough
dr_alphalyrae · x · 2026-09-17
Ian Rountree, founder of deep tech fund Cantos, shares an unpopular take: he prefers stacks of layered sustaining innovations to a single "disruptive" breakthrough. "You do this thing better and the next thing better. Each individual thing doesn't look interesting, but in aggregate you get this compounding effect we now look for."
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