Kyle Vogt

12 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 20, 2025 by Kyle Vogt · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Feb 20, 2025 positive
Insight
Vogt: Home robots can launch much faster than autonomous vehicles
“I think in the home and most consumer app applications and even most industrial applications safety is still critically important, but the bar that you need to reach or the functionality that you need to re reach or the constraints you can put on the system en…”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 16:20 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025
Insight
Vogt: Robotaxis have no MVP without superhuman safety performance
“You basically have no product until it achieves superhuman safety performance. Whatever you establish that is like just slightly better than humans or 10 times better. I think most driverless cars that are on the road today fall somewhere in that category. And…”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 15:44 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025 bullish
Insight
Vogt: Modern imitation learning solves unstructured home environments where classical mapping fails
“Using classical approaches, Where you have computer vision and you're trying to like reconstruct three D objects or fit to a map would make this like a really, really challenging and computationally intensive problem. Moving to more modern techniques like end …”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 14:16 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025 bearish
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Vogt: Robotics companies are many years away from meeting humanoid robot expectations
“Today, 20, 25, I think it's, it would be a leap of faith for any company to sell a humanoid robot or something like that and imply that it can do all of these things. Because that's, we're still, I think many years out from that, at least from meeting those ex…”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 22:48 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025 negative
Insight
Vogt: Humanoid robot appearances dangerously inflate consumer expectations
“Too much anthropomorphism can, I see I screwed up there, can it can imply like a set of human-like behaviors that don't exist in that product. And I think Rodney Brooks wrote an essay about this basically saying with robots in particular, the appearance of the…”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 22:12 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025 negative
Opinion
Vogt: Cruise was decimated by GM abandoning priority and support
“We got completely decimated by GM's like lack of, you know, priority and then completely abandoning crews.”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 34:21 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025 bullish
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Vogt: Homes without multiple robots will seem absurd in ten years
“In, in five years, maybe 10 years, It will seem as insane to have like a house without multiple home robots as it would be to have a house without a sink or like a laundry machine or like a toilet.”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 12:04 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vogt pitched around 120 investors to fund Cruise in early years
“I had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to raise money. I think I pitched like A 120 investors you know, over the course of probably a couple of years to raise all the money we needed.”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 1:17 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Vogt vows never to sell a company or accept an acquisition again
“First is I'm never going to sell another company again, ever. And so like, you know, maybe it will IPO or something like that, but there will never be an acquisition in my life again.”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 34:28 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025 bullish
Insight
Vogt: A few engineers paired with LLMs can replace domain specialists
“If you have a couple of good engineers, they can adapt and do all those things when sitting next to an LLM and some good coding tools.”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 36:10 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025
Opinion
Vogt: Only tech giants able to absorb liability can survive in AVs
“The only candidate today, the only companies that stand a chance are the ones where, you know, they can afford to take on that liability. Cause they're a giant tech company that makes money in other places. You know, otherwise it's very bleak.”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 30:22 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
Feb 20, 2025 positive
Opinion
Vogt: Waymo expands much more slowly than its tech safety warrants
“Companies like Waymo are growing or are expanding, I think much more slowly than they should based on the merits and the safety of their technology.”
Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 29:38 No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
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