Out Of Office
Out Of Office
Podcast Description
Kartik interviews people building cool shit in sf(mostly) w/ co-host Jack Dwyer.
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Content Themes
The show explores themes of entrepreneurship, internet culture, and technology, with episodes ranging from building meme empires and the implications of AI on creativity to discussions about health-focused computing and startup challenges. Specific focus areas include the integration of innovative tech stacks, market fit insights, and personal reflections on balancing professional and personal life.
Before the hype, before the funding—Kartik & Jack interview founders in the trenches, year one. Learn from the raw, unfiltered start.
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Episode 17 – Can a Robot Fold Your Laundry? Evan Wineland on Building Weave Robotics
On this episode of Out of Office, hosts Kartik Sathappan and Jack Dwyer welcomeEvan Wineland, co-founder of Weave Robotics. Evan unveils Isaac—a telescoping,wheeled home robot that folds laundry, tidies rooms, and even taps human tele-operatorswhen autonomy needs a boost. We explore why wheels beat legs (for now), how onboardcompute keeps your data private, what Evan learned while shipping Apple Intelligence,and why your own robo-housekeeper could arrive as early as late 2025.
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Weave Robotics: https://weaverobotics.com
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction & Isaac highlight reel
02:45 First impressions: Roomba ≠ Isaac
06:45 What Isaac is and isn’t
13:40 Wheels > legs: safety & reliability
19:40 Why start with laundry-folding & tidying
23:40 Mapping, memory & onboarding your home
32:00 Tele-operation, trust & guardrails
39:30 Pricing, early adopters & parents vs. entropy
49:10 From Apple Intelligence to home robots
57:00 YC, quadrupeds & pivoting to Isaac
1:03:00 Shipping timeline & Weave is hiring!
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