Colin Angle

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113 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 19 Dec

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Hard Fork · Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song · 19 Dec 2025 podcast

And so that if that's not the reason, why did the Federal Trade Commission with the commissioner, Lena Kahn, outspoken in her opposition of big tech,

choose to take a position contrary to the formal charge of the FTC to protect the interests of the consumer and answer it with your own gut.

What is your own gut?

I believe iRobot had nothing to do with the blocking of the deal with the FTC.

I believe iRobot was, this is Colin's personal view.

Yeah.

We were roadkill.

You know...

The tragedy of the blocking of the transaction is we did it to ourselves.

And the net result, which I have argued was done with eyes wide open, was putting the consumer robot industry in a box, gift wrapping it, and handing it to someone else.

Markets are difficult to create.

They're fragile.

They need to be nurtured.

They need to be cared for.

And

There are many, many people who are working incredibly hard to take any scent of an exciting new market away from the inventor.

We as a nation need to decide what we want to have happen.

Now, here we're sitting around with physical AI.

Humanoids.

It's at an exciting point.

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