About this episode
<p>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.</p><p><br>Full episode transcript</p><p>https://cheekypint.transistor.fm/3/transcript</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps</p><p>(00:00) Intro</p><p>(00:38) The Bot Company pitch</p><p>(02:05) Single-task vs. multi-task robots</p><p>(04:27) What is the Turing test for robotics?</p><p>(05:52) Why this time is different for home robots</p><p>(08:42) The last mile in robotics and self-driving</p><p>(09:47) Viral demos and hype cycles</p><p>(10:38) Commercializing frontier tech</p><p>(13:06) Self-driving CapEx</p><p>(14:15) Regulatory hurdles</p><p>(16:18) Tesla vs. Waymo</p><p>(19:21) Why Kyle regrets selling Cruise</p><p>(21:39) The next $100 billion company</p>