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Gecko Robotics built a $600M company from a college project
“Every date I went on was focused on this,” the Gecko founder said.
The reason for bringing on new cofounders, Loosararian said, was Gecko’s acceptance that same year into Y Combinator, the exclusive Silicon Valley startup accelerator program then run by Sam Altman, now OpenAI’s chief executive. Latvian startup Aerones suspends robots from ropes to inspect and maintain wind turbines, which includes cleaning and coating the blades with a solution that prevents ice buildup. One day, he and a college friend camped in a rainforest on the country’s Pacific coast and drifted to sleep on hammocks they brought from home, to the sounds of shouting monkeys and scurrying lizards.
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