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iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
- ▶ 0:53 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Colin Engel set out to make robots part of our daily lives and brought us one of the most iconic home helpers ever, the Roomba. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:41 Guy Raz You've got, you know, working on SC Johnson project, you're working on eventually with Hasbro, but let's dive into Roomba. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:54 Colin Angle And so we brought, you know, we, we got in the car, we went down to New York City or wherever it was, and, and we showed her the Roomba, and she was like, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:03 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Roomba gets a marketing makeover from a totally unexpected source, a Pepsi ad starring Dave Chappelle.
- ▶ 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. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:03 Colin Angle If you asked me at the time, what, Colin, what's the, what's the perfect Roomba? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:40 Guy Raz Alright, so, I mean, I think eventually, by, by, I don't know, maybe 2016 or 20 14, I think you'd already sold ten million Roombas, but I have to imagine that in your mind, at least, and certainly in the mind of others, if the company is… 6 times in the scene