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Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:21 unnamed speaker Poor little iRobots, Roomba, who didn't get clearance and then pretty much went bankrupt because they couldn't sell their company.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:14 Jason Lemkin I feel bad for Roomba, but you choose. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 30:02 Richard Socher So you can have a Roomba and the Roomba will do one thing better than a humanoid.
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:31 Brian Halligan And you wouldn't have heard of Colin, but he started iRobot, the room of vacuum cleaner.
Kevin Niparko: Big Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Product Teams | E1066 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:07 Kevin Niparko So we had, uh, this feature, which was essentially self-healing identity graphs, obviously complex, very deep in the weeds, but we called the project project Roomba, uh, after the beloved self-driving vacuum cleaner.