Investing in Industrial Automation with Kelly Chen and Kane Hsieh Village Global Podcast

Kelly Chen (@kaychen22), partner at DCVC, and Kane Hsieh (@kane), partner at Root Ventures, join Erik on this episode.

They talk about:

- What exactly industrial automation is and why it’s such an exciting space.

- The market map for industrial automation.

- Some of the coolest companies and applications of technology in the space.

- Advice for companies pitching their industrial automation products.

- Their requests for startups (and their anti-requests for startups).

- How jobs will change with the advent of automation.

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