Why PhDs are flocking into venture capital: market demand as a proxy for usefulness
dr_alphalyrae · x · 2026-09-19
The author explains why so many PhD scientists are moving into investing and VC: they are the kind of scientists who want to build useful things for humanity.
Her framing: a reasonable proxy for whether something is useful is whether a current or future market exists for it — and venture is simply another way of asking what should exist, what will matter, and what is worth helping.
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