# Szilard point
1961 Physicist [[Leo Szilard]] once noted that, at some point in a competitive grant system, applying for grants would consume all of a scientist’s time, leaving none for research.
Arguably this could also be applied to startup fundraising
The less intense version of the Szilard point is when the amount of grant writing time * value of researcher time > value of grant, so by giving out the grant you’re destroying more research than you enable.
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