The core company value of pursuing interesting, difficult problems without initially worrying about financial outcomes leads to better engineering and innovation.

“The most important lesson which was you know have the courage of your convictions and and do what you think is interesting um be willing to try to find big big problems to go after and at the time you know like at Locomotion um especially in a dynamic machine nobody had solved it”

Despite finding the robots impressive, he expresses concern that Boston Dynamics could use their technology in ways that feel dystopian or scary, like police enforcement.

“i've seen this robot dance now it's like guarding like i don't like it i don't like that like don't don't combine those things”