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Angle: FTC staff post blocked deals on doors as badges of honor
“In fact, I had to testify, I was deposed as part of this process, and I was walking, you know, between sessions, walking the facility, and
On the doors of the agents at the FTC, the employees, like, badges of honor on the doors were deals blocked.”
Angle: China now leads consumer robotic floor care instead of US
“We used to, past tense, lead the consumer robotic floor care industry.
We don't anymore.
China does.”
Angle: No navigation system was good enough for early Roomba positioning
“At the time there was no navigation system good enough to give you an actual position.”
Angle: iRobot sold 70,000 Roombas in its first three months
“We sold 70,000 Roombas in the first three months.”
Angle: iRobot Sat on 250,000 Unsold Roombas Late in 2003
“We ended in 2003. It was after Black Friday, after Cyber Monday, and we had sold a grand total of 50,000 robots from that year, and we're sitting on 250,000 robots.”
iRobot Sold 250,000 Roombas in Six Weeks After Chappelle Pepsi Ad
“And we sold 250,000 Roombas in six weeks.”
Angle: iRobot paid $22 for half-cent resistors during pandemic shortages
“We were spending 22 dollars on a half a cent resistor so that we could actually build a Roomba.”
Angle: iRobot lost market share to Chinese fast-follower competition
“And foreign competition, particularly the Chinese fast follower business model, finally started To put product on the marketplace which customers liked. And we saw our market share starting to drop.”
Angle: Genghis Robot Ran on an 8-Bit Processor with 256 Bytes of RAM
“The AI processor on this robot was an eight bit microprocessor with 256 bytes of RAM. Not kilobytes, bytes of RAM.”
Angle: iRobot Lived Month-to-Month on Payroll for Six and a Half Years
“I think it was six and a half years before I started a month with enough money in the bank to make payroll.”
Angle: iRobot reached roughly $50M in defense revenue
“And so that, I mean, we might have gotten up to maybe fifty million of revenue coming in from the defense side.”
Angle: 500 to 1,000 PacBots were destroyed in combat
“I mean, I, probably 500 to a thousand of the robots were destroyed, but that was okay.”
Angle: Roomba achieved energy efficiency by splitting debris and dust pickup
“By breaking vacuuming into two pieces, one for doing large debris and one for doing small debris, We had invented a new way of vacuuming that was incredibly efficient.”
Angle: iRobot sold roughly 150,000 My Real Baby dolls with Hasbro
“It came out in, in 1999, and called My Real Baby, and we sold 150,000 of them, I think, and they introduced us to low-cost manufacturing, and so did we make any money out of it? We got our costs covered for three and a half years, but we learned how to make lo…”