Boaz Barak
Yes, the most successful pitches to VCs have the form, "I have no idea how we will make money from this research, but it will likely take decades, and benefits would accrue to society at large." This is how we got the Internet, MRI, CRISPR, etc..
Sabine Hossenfelder
good grief, it's like these people have never even heard the word "investment" 😂