Robotics scouting tip: luxury cars in the parking lot mean no one is building robots
walkingriver · x · 2026-09-10
Scobleizer relays advice from a robotics insider: drive by robot company HQs and check the parking lots—luxury cars mean executives only, no real building; beater cars mean they're scaling engineering. walkingriver adds a cautionary tale of a 25-person startup with four C-suite execs in expensive cars that folded quickly.
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