The Roboticist Using AI to Fix How We Pick Startups — Live from Web Summit with Chris Coomes
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Hey friends,
Here’s another impromptu, slightly madcap interview recorded live from the “Croissant Studio” at Web Summit in Lisbon. This time I’m with new friend, roboticist, investor, and founder Chris Coomes.
Chris shares how and why he built X1 Pipeline, an AI platform that evaluates startups the way he would — only much, much faster. It’s something he wishes he had when looking for early stage robotics startups while at Google and Amazon.
We also talk about the strange humanoid robots wandering the convention hall at Web Summit, why “agents” is a vastly overused word and why (his take) most of the “agentic” startups he saw at the conference won’t be around next year. Plus, why plugging things in is hard for robots — and why (my take) that’s a good thing, because it means we humans will still have jobs (as plumbers and electricians, but hey!) in the future.
Enjoy this fun episode, recorded live from the “Croissant Studio” on the floor at Web Summit in Lisbon.
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