Abhijeet Patra (@abhijeetpatra88), former Deep Tech entrepreneur and venture fellow at Susa Ventures who is now leading Deep Tech at On Deck, joins Erik to discuss:

- What exactly Deep Tech is and some of the examples of technologies involved, including nanotechnology, quantum computing, hardware, autonomous vehicles, space, manufacturing, machine learning, and more.

- Why there’s been an explosion in talk about Deep Tech over the last several years.

- The fact that there’s almost always a market for a technology, if you can get the technical side figured out.

- Democratization of technologies and how the trajectory of sequencing DNA is representative of the typical path of Deep Tech — first a technology is expensive, then it goes down dramatically in cost, then it becomes easy to build on top of.

- Why it’s difficult to find enough talent in the field these days. He says that Deep Tech is still a niche.

- How On Deck is aiming to 100X the number of people working in the space and how you can get involved.

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