Bryan, I think you’re an incredible person and a wonderful experiment for the love of humanity.
Please just switch to a drink that’s more difficult to mess up. Barista’s mess up my decaf cinnamon dolce latte all the time. Luckily I can sense the caffeine/taste quickly and throw away the drink. However, now I just order drinks I can handle even with a possible mess up. Chai Lattes and Vanilla Chai Lattes for me. Or herbal teas and sometimes green tea.
@ChrisCamillo Definitely keep them as friends so you have great bottom indicators 😂…ES is out, time for it to send 🚀. Joking aside, clearly ES needs to learn better risk management. We’ve all been there.
@RoboStrategy@Rewkang@standardbots For the welding solutions I’m curious how an operator would choose between Standard Bots and your other portfolio company that specializes in welding Path Robotics?
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $200M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation, led by @RoboStrategy and existing investors including @generalcatalyst.
Standard Bots is now America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Our customers include Sunoco, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the US Army along with hundreds of other manufacturers across the country. We’re proud to say that we’re on track to deploy 10% of all U.S. industrial robots by next year.
We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America.
We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market.
Right now it’s possible for the United States to revitalize our manufacturing base if we become the worldwide leader in this transformative technology.
We must build American robots, and put them to work in American factories. It’s a national imperative, and it’s our central mission. This fundraise gets us one step closer to the goal.
The future of American manufacturing is bright! Join Standard Bots, and show your robot how it’s done — we’re just getting started.
@packyM@pmarca Maybe the first question you should ask is exactly the said question?
“What is the first question I should ask super-intelligence?” Then after given the answer, ask that question.
When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc.
I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with minutiae and logistics. Instead of talking mostly to engineers, you’re talking mostly to non-engineers. The building stops…the business of managing self inflicted complexity begins.
It’s worth noting that the best players in the game (Buffett, Elon) have kept their life extremely basic, almost monastic/nomadic, as success ratcheted them ever higher.
I think it’s the biggest secret hiding in plain sight:
When the world upgrades your status, downgrade your complexity.
At Piazza del Popolo in Rome, the curved stone walls reflect and focus sound, so even a whisper travels clearly across.
It’s a natural acoustic phenomenon called the whispering gallery effect.
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