Category Visionaries Anthony Jules, CEO & Co-Founder of Robust AI: $42 Million Raised to Build the Collaborative Mobile Robots Category
Aug 13, 2024
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Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Anthony Jules, CEO & Co-Founder of Robust AI, a robotics company that has raised over $42 Million in funding.
Here are the most interesting points from our conversation:
- From MIT to Sapient: Anthony shares his journey from MIT grad school to co-founding Sapient Corporation, growing it from 3 to 4000 employees and taking it public.
- Early Tech Scene: He reminisces about the tech scene in the early '90s, the pre-Internet era, and the challenges of building tech companies without today's information flow.
- Vision of the Internet: Anthony discusses the early days of the Internet and how recognizing its potential for transactions was a pivotal moment for his career.
- Robotics and AI at Google: He recounts his time at Google, the excitement of working on cutting-edge projects, and his decision to leave due to the mismatch in scale and focus.
- Founding Robust AI: Anthony details the serendipitous meeting with co-founders Rodney Brooks and Henrik Christensen, leading to the creation of Robust AI.
- Navigating COVID: The early years of Robust AI were defined by the pandemic, pushing the team to innovate remotely and pivot their focus in response to evolving needs.
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