Jake Loosararian

My goodness, you have a shortage of welders, you have a shortage of inspectors, you have a shortage of all these trades, and you have to be able to augment and take a Home Depot employee in a couple months, make them able to make $100,000, $150,000 running your robot, doing it safely.

And so that's an exciting, brave future.

I think the key unlock for us in the robotics community is just like, you gotta get your robotics into the field, you gotta fail fast and also rapidly prototype really quickly, and then manufacturing them is the big issue.

As we focus on these sorts of problems, because in this journey, over the next five years, to be that company that's the best in the world at taking robots and making ROI from them, that's what we're focused on in terms of setting ourselves up to be the world dominant there.

It was basically on the concept that we're talking about here, which is like, you know, I'm a I'm a I live in Pittsburgh.

At some point, Pittsburgh had like more millionaires in 1930 than New York.

It made 70% of the world steal.

And it's, you know, the economy changed a bunch.

And then that doesn't happen anymore in Pittsburgh.

And so but but like the insights and the companies, they're like they're still the backbone of our of our economy.

And and I was inspired by, you know, in that time from the Industrial Revolution, how steel was invented and then manufactured and then distributed to help create all the infrastructure that we rely on and that that fuels the energy or fuels the manufacturing sectors.

It was the infrastructure that you needed to be able to have all these big gains that came from the Industrial Revolution.

Same thing as what I was talking about in the editorial about is what we're doing with robotics, collecting information and data sets to help support and create the avenue, create the infrastructure for AI models to actually be able to return the kinds of returns that we're all betting on.

It's important for people to understand that robotics is almost the foundation to be able to get the massive returns in the sectors that are mostly all here.

Knowledge workers are great.

And I think that the risk you have like with like I think this the form is like it's like you're saying it's changing, right?

There's like a ecosystem in a bubble when you live in a certain place talking a certain way.

In Silicon Valley, we only exist in the world of the Internet.

We don't build the kind of technologies that started the Silicon Valley.

And so this world of energy, of metal manufacturing, of mining, all these like sectors, defense, like they're just not.