Robot Founder: Death Threats Are Our Success KPI
cixliv · x · 2026-11-01
The founder of a robotics startup sums up a year of progress: their robots went from "haha that's cute" to people screaming that they're building Terminator and "need to die." His takeaway: death threats are now the team's success KPI — how scared people get has become an alternative metric for how capable the robots have become.
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