Travis Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7 billion for physical AI · Digg

Travis Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7 billion for physical AI · Digg

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Travis is back.

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Travis Kalanick is back. After 8 years of building in stealth, he joins Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg to tell the story of his latest company, Atoms, and its vision to digitize the physical world one industry at a time: 01:32 The a16z & Uber backstory 15:36 Different companies, different rules 21:13 CloudKitchens origins 27:13 An $8 meal delivery 31:58 Building in private 34:59 Computing atoms, not bits 42:54 Autonomous mining 49:02 Ideas are cheap, founders are rare 56:21 From 20,000 employees to 6 1:00:32 Why food came first 1:10:40 Entering a new industry 1:20:21 Parallels to the Industrial Revolution 1:28:26 Who Travis is hiring @travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg

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BE benahorowitz.eth@bhorowitz

11h ago · 83.9K Views

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TK travis kalanick@travisk

8h ago · 118.2K Views

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We’re hiring.. ⛏️

.@travisk's pitch for why young people should join his new startup Atoms: "I'm not out there pitching some lame-sauce dude who doesn't want to work... This is why Atoms is cool. You're not dropping an app in the App Store. You're automating a 2 million pound machine [in the Amazon] going 35mph carrying gold."

5h ago · 49.9K Views

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Travis Kalanick on making meal delivery as cheap as groceries: "Can you make the preparation and delivery of a quality meal so efficient that it approaches the cost of going to the grocery store?" "If it does, you do to the kitchen what Uber did to the car." "In 20 years, there will be a suite of robotics that will make higher quality meals, they will be doing a better job than any of us could do." "We are going to have autonomous burritos. Boxes on wheels that hold food at temperature that come to your house." "All of the sudden you've got an $8 or $10 meal that's delivered to you all in." @travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg

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11h ago · 70.2K Views

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We’re backing Atoms, and @bhorowitz is joining the board. @travisk has been working on Atoms for 8 years, in stealth, to digitize the physical world. It is inevitable that within a generation, robots are going to do most of the menial work in the world of atoms: transforming atoms, moving atoms, and storing atoms. Atoms will make us more productive in the physical world the same way digital computers did for bits. Travis has three of them so far: Atoms Food, Atoms Mining, and Atoms Transport. All are trillion dollar industries, so he's got some work to do, and we're excited to help him win. "Industrial AI" as a category is the application of specialized robots to atoms-heavy industries like these. It takes a rare kind of entrepreneur to change these old-school, heavy parts of our economy. Travis is that guy.

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ET Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg

11h ago · 51.1K Views

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"They asked me if I was ever coming back. And the thing is, I never left."

Travis is back.

KB Katherine Boyle@KTmBoyle

11h ago · 42.2K Views

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They asked if I was ever coming back. The thing is I never left.

ET Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg

10h ago · 56.1K Views

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Thrilled to announce our investment in Atoms. You can't spend a few hours with Travis and not feel incredibly fired up. Atoms will be a trillion dollar company within the next decade.

travis kalanick@travisk

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BE benahorowitz.eth@bhorowitz

10h ago · 28.3K Views

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We’re backing Atoms, and I’m joining the board. This partnership is a long time coming. Welcome back, Travis.

travis kalanick@travisk

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ET Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg

5h ago · 14.7K Views

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Travis on finding your life’s work: “become deeply self-aware, and when the right thing comes, you'll know.”

Travis Kalanick is back. After 8 years of building in stealth, he joins Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg to tell the story of his latest company, Atoms, and its vision to digitize the physical world one industry at a time: 01:32 The a16z & Uber backstory 15:36 Different companies, different rules 21:13 CloudKitchens origins 27:13 An $8 meal delivery 31:58 Building in private 34:59 Computing atoms, not bits 42:54 Autonomous mining 49:02 Ideas are cheap, founders are rare 56:21 From 20,000 employees to 6 1:00:32 Why food came first 1:10:40 Entering a new industry 1:20:21 Parallels to the Industrial Revolution 1:28:26 Who Travis is hiring @travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg

DA Daniel@growing_daniel

9h ago · 40.8K Views

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Amazing opening paragraph

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SC Siqi Chen@blader

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i'm really loving the brand direction here a16z: nike for founders

Travis is back.

6h ago · 26.9K Views

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Travis Kalanick on the physical world as an atoms-based computer: "The vision for digitizing the physical world for me started at Uber. Treating atoms like bits started at Uber. It was sci-fi at one point. You would touch glass and a car would come to you." "CPU manipulates bits. What manipulates atoms? That's manufacturing. Storage stores bits. What stores atoms? That's real estate. Network moves bits from point A to point B. What moves atoms? That's transport." "That 10,000 square foot facility, I call it a 10,000 square foot semiconductor. It's a 30-core processor, 30 kitchens. They're computing atoms, not bits." @travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg

Travis Kalanick is back. After 8 years of building in stealth, he joins Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg to tell the story of his latest company, Atoms, and its vision to digitize the physical world one industry at a time: 01:32 The a16z & Uber backstory 15:36 Different companies, different rules 21:13 CloudKitchens origins 27:13 An $8 meal delivery 31:58 Building in private 34:59 Computing atoms, not bits 42:54 Autonomous mining 49:02 Ideas are cheap, founders are rare 56:21 From 20,000 employees to 6 1:00:32 Why food came first 1:10:40 Entering a new industry 1:20:21 Parallels to the Industrial Revolution 1:28:26 Who Travis is hiring @travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg

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5h ago · 22.1K Views

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Hero's journey.

travis kalanick@travisk

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TK travis kalanick@travisk

11h ago · 52.9K Views

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any tips? http://atoms.co/careers 😎😉

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9h ago · 32.6K Views

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Travis Kalanick on launching Atoms & building a team that can take on three industries at once: "It's those epic leaders that can inspire their team to just go above and beyond and make magic." "No matter where you are as an entrepreneur, the talent game is the game." "When you multiply the industries by three, we're back in the flow. And because we were stealth for so long, we weren't in the flow. We were cold calling everybody." "One of the beautiful things about us being back out there is, okay, we can now have a place for people to understand who we are, what we're about, and I can start putting teams together that can be out there in a very public way." @travisk @eriktorenberg

travis kalanick@travisk

any tips? http://atoms.co/careers 😎😉

TN Turner Novak 🍌🧢@TurnerNovak

11h ago · 51.6K Views

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This is wild and unprecedented because Ben and Marc don't really join new boards today. It's one of the most common reasons I hear of founders not taking money from a16z.

SITUATION DETECTED: Travis Kalanick’s ATOMS has raised $1.7B in equity, led by a16z, with Ben Horowitz joining the board.

4h ago · 21.8K Views

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Travis Kalanick on mining as a case study for the future of autonomy: "It's one of the most beautiful and interesting autonomy categories or use cases." "We can go to a gold mine CEO right now and say, 'Would you like to get 20% more gold per year?' We don't get no. He says prove it." "When you look at the work that's being done and how it's being done, it's a little bit heart-wrenching. It's not the mine's fault, it's just the nature of the work. There's a massive safety upside that goes along with the productivity upside." @travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg

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RS Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

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When I was in a Paris snowstorm years ago I saw the beginning. Travis turned to Garrett and asked "why can't I see where the cars are on our phones?" Having him back is good for America.

Travis is back.