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Scott Hassan

President & CEO, Suitable Technologies. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Hassan was the primary programmer of Google's original search engine and founded eGroups, which sold to Yahoo! for $432 million in 2000. He later founded robotics research lab Willow Garage, which created the Robot Operating System, and spun out Suitable Technologies to build Beam telepresence robots.

What they said5 Shows1

Everything Scott Hassan said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Insight

Hassan: Learning burden should rest solely on a technology's primary beneficiary

“In a design of our product, my philosophy, Is that you should only put the burden of learning on the person who most benefits from that technology, right? You shouldn't put it on someone who doesn't really benefit from it, right?”

Scott Hassan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 35:25 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

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Hassan: Suitable Technologies operates a fully automated store with zero physical staff

“At our we have a store on University Ave in Palo Alto right across the street from the Apple store, and it's been, we opened it in October of last year, Halloween, right, was our first day was open, and it's a fully automated store. There are no none of my emp…”

Scott Hassan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:40 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

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Hassan: Suitable Technologies bans touching Beam devices while someone is logged in

“We have a policy of all employees. Once someone's beamed in, a customer or an employee or anybody beamed in, You're not allowed to touch the beam at all. We want to, we apply the same principles as if they were there. So you don't touch them.”

Scott Hassan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:54 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

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Hassan: Beam telepresence robot has zero physical buttons for local users

“And so if you look at the beam product, there are no buttons on it at all. There's no switches. There's no dials. There's nothing to do on your side.”

Scott Hassan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:17 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

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Hassan: Remote engineers stay logged into Beam for 6 to 8 hours

“We have engineers that sit on the beam for more than six, eight hours. At a time, and they overhear conversations, so they're working from Indiana, from, you know, from Vancouver, all around the world, and they basically are there with their team, embedded wit…”

Scott Hassan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:46 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Scott's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	President & CEO, Suitable Technologies	1	5	0% 0/1	full record on the a16z Podcast →