Guest
Zev Arnold
Best Quotes
“It's on average about 7.5% — the opportunity to reduce that to zero is, I think, a hundred billion dollar plus opportunity just in additional electricity revenue for power generators, not counting the rest.”
The $50K use case matters – Zev Arnold on Scaling, Context and AI
“The way to make anybody in the business own something is to make them care about it. If you just give them a task on their performance evaluation — please govern this hierarchy — that will never get done. You need to give them steak.”
The $50K use case matters – Zev Arnold on Scaling, Context and AI
“If we take a step back abstractly, what this really is is a stronger collaboration between people and AI. How do we put expert systems — the most basic form of AI — in the hands of engineers and operators so they can collaborate with them effectively?”
The $50K use case matters – Zev Arnold on Scaling, Context and AI
“The challenge that project faced is that adding each new use case was every bit as hard as building the first one, because identifying which platform components to reuse was very challenging in the moment.”
The $50K use case matters – Zev Arnold on Scaling, Context and AI
“These reclosers are the reason that when you lose power, it immediately goes back on again — they reconfigure the grid automatically to isolate the short, so instead of a thousand people losing power, just one person does.”
The $50K use case matters – Zev Arnold on Scaling, Context and AI
Appearances
Podcast Episode · Aug 5, 2025