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John Rush

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

curtailing the dopamine fueled infinite scroll apps and not allowing those onto the platform and i think parents would buy this earlier i think parents will eventually be beaten down by teenagers and just wind up buying iphones but for the middle schoolers i think a lot of parents would be happy to buy something that's like

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

curtailing the dopamine fueled infinite scroll apps and not allowing those onto the platform and i think parents would buy this earlier i think parents will eventually be beaten down by teenagers and just wind up buying iphones but for the middle schoolers i think a lot of parents would be happy to buy something that's like

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

curtailing the dopamine fueled infinite scroll apps and not allowing those onto the platform and i think parents would buy this earlier i think parents will eventually be beaten down by teenagers and just wind up buying iphones but for the middle schoolers i think a lot of parents would be happy to buy something that's like

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

you know decent quality kind of ruggedized kind of fun cool style doesn't look like an apple product doesn't look like a status symbol couple hundred bucks basic features and it's something that can maybe help the kid with homework or questions or learn about the world keep them connected a little bit but not overwhelm them with the dopamine fueled apps and i think that

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

you know decent quality kind of ruggedized kind of fun cool style doesn't look like an apple product doesn't look like a status symbol couple hundred bucks basic features and it's something that can maybe help the kid with homework or questions or learn about the world keep them connected a little bit but not overwhelm them with the dopamine fueled apps and i think that

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

you know decent quality kind of ruggedized kind of fun cool style doesn't look like an apple product doesn't look like a status symbol couple hundred bucks basic features and it's something that can maybe help the kid with homework or questions or learn about the world keep them connected a little bit but not overwhelm them with the dopamine fueled apps and i think that

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

for these hardware companies, they always run into this problem where, I mean, this was a case study with Humane where it's ex-Apple people. And so all their investors are like, you have to beat Apple. And it's like, Apple's a multi-trillion dollar company. You have to full send it at that point. And so they made a lot of decisions that only make sense if you are fundamentally prepared

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

for these hardware companies, they always run into this problem where, I mean, this was a case study with Humane where it's ex-Apple people. And so all their investors are like, you have to beat Apple. And it's like, Apple's a multi-trillion dollar company. You have to full send it at that point. And so they made a lot of decisions that only make sense if you are fundamentally prepared

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

for these hardware companies, they always run into this problem where, I mean, this was a case study with Humane where it's ex-Apple people. And so all their investors are like, you have to beat Apple. And it's like, Apple's a multi-trillion dollar company. You have to full send it at that point. And so they made a lot of decisions that only make sense if you are fundamentally prepared

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

rejecting the idea that Apple just has a monopoly on a lot of things in the mobile device world. And so the Humane AI pin, it had a separate phone number. It wouldn't interact with your phone because they were like, oh, well, we don't want to link into the phone because then Apple will have control over us. We want to make the new platform.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

rejecting the idea that Apple just has a monopoly on a lot of things in the mobile device world. And so the Humane AI pin, it had a separate phone number. It wouldn't interact with your phone because they were like, oh, well, we don't want to link into the phone because then Apple will have control over us. We want to make the new platform.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

rejecting the idea that Apple just has a monopoly on a lot of things in the mobile device world. And so the Humane AI pin, it had a separate phone number. It wouldn't interact with your phone because they were like, oh, well, we don't want to link into the phone because then Apple will have control over us. We want to make the new platform.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

And you see this a lot with like the Oculus device that Zuck's been working on. Like it's always kind of clunky because it's like, wait, why doesn't this just pair with my iPhone? Because like my iPhone's great, but it's like, yeah, we can't because he needs to go to war with Apple. Like he does not want to lose. And so, but for this, it wouldn't really matter if it like,

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

And you see this a lot with like the Oculus device that Zuck's been working on. Like it's always kind of clunky because it's like, wait, why doesn't this just pair with my iPhone? Because like my iPhone's great, but it's like, yeah, we can't because he needs to go to war with Apple. Like he does not want to lose. And so, but for this, it wouldn't really matter if it like,

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

And you see this a lot with like the Oculus device that Zuck's been working on. Like it's always kind of clunky because it's like, wait, why doesn't this just pair with my iPhone? Because like my iPhone's great, but it's like, yeah, we can't because he needs to go to war with Apple. Like he does not want to lose. And so, but for this, it wouldn't really matter if it like,

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

was set up through the the parents phone or whatever because you're you're not trying to do this crazy thing where like you need to get the 30 app store fee and you need to own the the relationship forever and you also need the the device metrics and you need the tracking in the ads network and you need all these things like because maybe with this one you're not immediately targeting a trillion dollar business you're just thinking like okay i'm gonna put this on instagram

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

was set up through the the parents phone or whatever because you're you're not trying to do this crazy thing where like you need to get the 30 app store fee and you need to own the the relationship forever and you also need the the device metrics and you need the tracking in the ads network and you need all these things like because maybe with this one you're not immediately targeting a trillion dollar business you're just thinking like okay i'm gonna put this on instagram

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

was set up through the the parents phone or whatever because you're you're not trying to do this crazy thing where like you need to get the 30 app store fee and you need to own the the relationship forever and you also need the the device metrics and you need the tracking in the ads network and you need all these things like because maybe with this one you're not immediately targeting a trillion dollar business you're just thinking like okay i'm gonna put this on instagram

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

advertise it to parents and every time that there's like a new school year right at summer and maybe christmas i'm doing a big push and yeah i'm gonna sell like a hundred thousand units for a hundred bucks each or something that's 10 million dollars like this is a pretty sizable business but it's not going to be hyper scale and then and then over time maybe you do iterations maybe you add features and maybe this does turn out to be a way to attack apple and really take part of their market share because

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Humanoid Military Robots and other crazy billion dollar ideas

advertise it to parents and every time that there's like a new school year right at summer and maybe christmas i'm doing a big push and yeah i'm gonna sell like a hundred thousand units for a hundred bucks each or something that's 10 million dollars like this is a pretty sizable business but it's not going to be hyper scale and then and then over time maybe you do iterations maybe you add features and maybe this does turn out to be a way to attack apple and really take part of their market share because