Robert Playter
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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lawmakers and regulators, let's figure out what the rules are going to be around the use of this technology and use our position as leaders in this industry and technology to help force that issue.
And so we are, in fact, I have a policy director at my company whose job it is to engage policy
with the public to engage with interested parties and including regulators to sort of begin these discussions.
Courage, I would put front and center for multiple reasons.
I talked earlier about the courage to tackle hard problems.
So I think there's courage required, not just of me, but of all of the people who work at Boston Dynamics.
I also think we have a lot of really smart people.
We have people who are way smarter than I am.
And it takes a kind of courage to be willing to lead them and to trust that
you have something to offer to somebody who probably is maybe a better engineer than I am.
Adaptability.
It's been a great career for me.
I never would have guessed I'd stayed in one place for 30 years.
And the job has always changed.
I didn't really aspire to be CEO from the very beginning, but it was the natural progression of things.
something that needed to be done that wasn't being done i just stepped in to go do it and oftentimes because we were full of such uh strong engineers oftentimes that was in the management direction or it was in the business development direction or uh or organizational hiring geez i was not i was the main person hiring at boston dynamics for probably 20 years so i was the head of hr basically
So just willingness to sort of tackle any piece of the business that needs it and be willing to shift.
You know, we developed an interview process that I was quite fond of.
It's a little bit of a hard interview process because the best interviews, you ask somebody about what they're interested in and what they're good at.
And if they can describe to you something that they worked on and you saw they really did the work, they solved the problems, and you saw their passion for it,
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