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iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
- ▶ 2:35 Guy Raz When Colin Engel and his co-founder started iRobot in 1990, they didn't have a business model. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:49 Colin Angle And it's like, well, I'm thinking about starting a, a, a robot company 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:32 Colin Angle And at the time, iRobot was great at technology, but really didn't have much talent within the company to understand markets and understand pricing and understand 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:32 Guy Raz So it's the late 19 nineties, and as part of iRobot's mission to make cool stuff, Colin leans into consumer goods and starts a conversation with Hasbro.
- ▶ 24:25 Colin Angle Well, you had to make choices, and my journey at iRobot started back when I was a wilderness guide, right?
- ▶ 29:27 Guy Raz I mean, iRobot still was a relatively small company, and you had all of these concurrent projects you had, you know, you, you've got the, the, these robots, right, detecting these pack bots for the military. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:10 Guy Raz For iRobot, which is incredible, given that the year started out not, not good.
- ▶ 41:39 Guy Raz So, it's the fall of 2003, and after an early boom in sales, Roomba is starting to flatline, and iRobot is sitting on a lot of inventory. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:07 Guy Raz So within two years, I think the iRobot's doing a hundred million dollars, a hundred million dollars in revenue. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:26 Colin Angle And really that was what, uh, led me to saying, hey, uh, iRobot and Amazon might have some pretty interesting synergies, and because Scuba hadn't succeeded, because Terra hadn't succeeded, then when Amazon started to be interested in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:46 Guy Raz It certainly did make sense because you could see, I imagine you as the CEO of the company, could see that Amazon coming in and acquiring iRobot could be a great 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:43 Colin Angle And so the, when I left iRobot after, you know, the last decade was a little tough. 3 times in the scene