The Bot Company founder and CEO Kyle Vogt—who also cofounded Twitch and Cruise—joins John Collison to talk about applying AI to home robots, the similarities between robotics and self-driving, and why the next $100 billion company will have fewer than 100 people.
Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(00:38) The Bot Company pitch
(02:05) Single-task vs. multi-task robots
(04:27) What is the Turing test for robotics?
(05:52) Why this time is different for home robots
(08:42) The last mile in robotics and self-driving
(09:47) Viral demos and hype cycles
(10:38) Commercializing frontier tech
(13:06) Self-driving CapEx
(14:15) Regulatory hurdles
(16:18) Tesla vs. Waymo
(19:21) Why Kyle regrets selling Cruise
(21:39) The next $100 billion company