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The Bot Company founder and CEO Kyle Vogt on home robots and why he’ll never sell another company

Jun 25, 2025 · 23m

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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. Full episode transcript https://cheekypint.transistor.fm/3/transcript 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…