AI Robots with Purpose with Jake Loosararian of Gecko Robotics | E1947
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 11 May 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Todays show:
Jake Loosararian of Gecko Robotics joins Jason to discuss the purpose-designed robots being built at Gecko (3:01), the value of “bear hugging” your key customers (23:39), the “BOM” of current and future robots (1:02:14), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jake Loosararian of Gecko Robotics joins Jason.
(3:01) The purpose-designed robots being built at Gecko.
(7:03) Origin story behind Jake’s startup.
(9:45) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at http://www.vanta.com/twist
(10:38) Show us the robots!
(17:43) Details on the frequency of needed infrastructure inspections. (19:24) DevSquad - Get an entire product team for the cost of one US developer plus 10% off at http://devsquad.com/twist (23:39) The value of “bear hugging” your key customers. (27:42) Bridging physical and digital with Gecko’s Cantilever digital twins. (29:36) Hubspot for Podcast Networks - The Next Wave: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNextWavePod “The Large Language Model Race with Pete Huang, Founder of The Neuron” episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8elHTM9cOOA
(33:50) Extending the value of inspections with fixed sensors. (46:47) Opening up the conversation to the AI data collected.
(54:44) Why some robotics companies fail while others succeed.
(1:02:14) The “BOM” of current and future robots.
(1:06:29) Where humanoid robots may first be “employed”.
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| 0:00.0 | There's so much sex appeal to building new things |
| 0:03.1 | and like in 10 years we'll have this really cool |
| 0:05.4 | new autonomous thing, drone, walking, you know, |
| 0:08.0 | humanoid that's gonna solve all of these problems. |
| 0:09.9 | But the problem is, there's a lot of issues going on today. |
| 0:12.4 | And so the approach to solving and using you know specific robots for specific jobs is actually just to earn the right to begin building really cool robots that are able to do like you know interesting things, but you got to get the business model right. |
| 0:23.6 | And the business model has to incentivize and make a CEO or a CFO give a fuck about, you know, how useful this industry, you know, 4.0 principles and tools are. |
| 0:33.6 | Because right now that's not true. |
| 0:34.8 | I see this time and time again, where like, |
| 0:36.4 | I won't name like the AI companies, |
| 0:38.2 | but like these AI companies come in and say, |
| 0:40.0 | we'll like completely turn on your head |
| 0:41.5 | the way you're operating your entire business |
| 0:43.6 | and they'll come in for some contract that ends up expiring because it just did not produce. |
| 0:47.6 | And that's the problem. |
| 0:48.6 | You think you have all the information and data, but you're building your AI and your |
| 0:52.3 | solutions off of ground truth. |
| 0:54.1 | It's actually not ground truth. |
| 0:55.6 | This weekend startups is brought to you by Vanta. |
| 1:00.1 | Compliance and security shouldn't be a dealbreaker for startups to win new business. |
| 1:05.5 | Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a Sock 2 report fast. |
| 1:10.5 | Twist listeners can get $1,000 off for a limited time at vanta.com slash |
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