Rob Wachen
speaker
529 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Rob Wachen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We were looking at this and we were just like tallying the bill.
And we're like, we think we're going to spend $100 million in the next 12 months.
We really want to do this.
If we want to actually get to scale and actually get the performance we're talking about, this is going to be extremely capital intensive.
How the hell are we going to pull this off?
Yeah, so we're at this moment where we're like, if we really want to build this company, because we're not going to half-ass it, we're not going to go do a test chip and spend years on it and let the entire AI market boom while we could be building the product.
If we're going to do it, we're going to go all the way.
We're going to need to find a way to get $100 million.
I mean, I remember Gavin and I were like sitting down in the office in Cupertino late at night, just like looking at each other and we're like, could we cut 500K here?
Could we cut 100K here?
How long could we convince everyone not to take a salary?
And we were like, holy fuck, the math is not going to close.
We really need to solve this.
And there was a period of a few weeks where you kind of just go into survival mode.
And you call every person that could possibly know an investor.
And you're like, we need $100 million to do this.
If we do this, we think this could be one of the most important companies of all time.
Do you know somebody that wants to take an aggressive bet?
That wants to believe in us?
Here's all the information.
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