Absolutely love Frontier, but the idea of relying predominantly on private companies like Stripe to shape markets for urgently needed technologies makes me really nervous. While the Stripe Climate/Frontier example has been unbelievably successful, I’m not sure it’s the kind of thing most businesses would want to get into (because it is so far outside their area of expertise and probably has low/uncertain ROI). I’ll be curious to see if we start to see other companies try to spin up versions of frontier for other technologies, but I’m skeptical we’ll see something as well funded and thoughtful as Frontier coming out of the private sector that often.
Absolutely love Frontier, but the idea of relying predominantly on private companies like Stripe to shape markets for urgently needed technologies makes me really nervous. While the Stripe Climate/Frontier example has been unbelievably successful, I’m not sure it’s the kind of thing most businesses would want to get into (because it is so far outside their area of expertise and probably has low/uncertain ROI). I’ll be curious to see if we start to see other companies try to spin up versions of frontier for other technologies, but I’m skeptical we’ll see something as well funded and thoughtful as Frontier coming out of the private sector that often.