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Vogt: Selling a startup to a legacy corporation cannot scale its vision
“I think my heart was in the right place, but I was naive about the ability to get like a large corporation, which is like, it's like an aircraft carrier. You can't steer it. You can't get it to change its focus. Yeah. It's going to do what it wants to do or wh…”
Kyle Vogt Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 20:46 A Cheeky Pint with Kyle Vogt, cofounder of Twitch, Cruise, and The Bot Company
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Vogt: Autonomous driving was funded by corporate R&D, not venture capital
“Notably the companies who were making these investments were not startups that were just doing this by raising venture capital around. They were large corporations with R and D budgets or basically the pockets that were deep enough to make Strategic long-term …”
Kyle Vogt Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 13:20 A Cheeky Pint with Kyle Vogt, cofounder of Twitch, Cruise, and The Bot Company
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Vogt: Each nine of reliability takes 10x more engineering work
“The bar for commercial success for self-driving was like five, six nines of reliability. And understand that each extra nine of reliability you add, so 10 times better, takes probably 10 times more engineering work.”
Kyle Vogt Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 9:34 A Cheeky Pint with Kyle Vogt, cofounder of Twitch, Cruise, and The Bot Company
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