Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, everyone, we just finished recording this pod, and we wanted to come back and give a little bit of an intro because I feel so many different emotions, and here's why. The stakes of this are super, super, super high.

**Shaan Puri** (0:11)
Yeah, we're talking about what's going on with robots in the real world. So robots that are being used, we have specific examples of really cool businesses that are doing robots for lawn care, restaurants, all different types of things. But then we go over the Elon Musk versus Sam Altman lawsuit. What is this lawsuit between two of the power players of Silicon Valley?
And what's our take on it, which might surprise you, as well as some of the brilliant, the nuance, the marketing and PR that's going on here. We kind of call it out.

**Sam Parr** (0:39)
This is actually, we have fun while doing it, but this is actually really, really important, in my opinion. Listen to the entire thing. And you have to listen to the first half to build up the story and the stakes for the second half.
Trust me, you're gonna understand exactly what I'm talking about when you get through the whole.

**Shaan Puri** (1:00)
Thing. All right, what up, Sam?

**Sam Parr** (1:03)
Hey, what's going on?

**Shaan Puri** (1:05)
Sam, I gotta tell you something.
When it comes to kissing, eating ice cream before bed or business, timing is everything, my friend. And I think that timing is important in all aspects of business and in technology, there's a moment happening right now. I could feel it, I could feel it. It's like when you hit your funny bone and your whole arm gets hot, I could feel it right now. Shit's about to change. Robots are going wild. I gotta talk to you about robots.

**Sam Parr** (1:34)
And they've been around for a minute, but now it actually feels like it's a reality.

**Shaan Puri** (1:39)
Exactly, so right now, a lot of people are talking about Tesla because Elon Musk came out and he said, the future of Tesla is this humanoid robot.
And I forgot what they call them, optimists or some shit like that. So he's like, hey, we got this robot that can walk around, pick up stuff, do tasks, it's gonna change the workforce. And your boy, Brad Adcock, he's got a company called Figure, which you're an investor in, they have their robot. And I think they just raised a billion dollars or something, right? Like last week?

**Sam Parr** (2:08)
I think they raised $600 million at a two and a half or $3 billion valuation, I think.

**Shaan Puri** (2:14)
Nice little investment there for you.

**Sam Parr** (2:18)
I know, I was in on the first round, I doubled down and did on this round. Is this gonna be my Mona Lisa? Is this gonna be my big win?

**Shaan Puri** (2:25)
Well, it could have been anybody's because you had him come on the podcast and tell the world what he was doing. So good on you, multi-billion dollars valuation right now. So that's a big deal. And people are really excited about that. I think there's these stats that say, basically labor is 50% of the GDP. The labor market is a 10 times bigger market than transportation, which makes sense.
Why Elon is like, hey, forget cars. It's all about these robots. We're just, we're an AI company. We're doing robots.
He's very good at repositioning and re-imagining the vision of the company over and over and over again, right? And went from affordable electric cars to self-driving autonomous vehicles, robo taxis that will just drive people everywhere. Your car will become an appreciating asset instead of a depreciating asset. And then now it's actually, it's not even about cars. It's about AI robots and that's the future. But I wanna tell you about something that's less fancy than that because I think it's gonna come first. And that is single purpose robots, AKA Roombas on steroids.
And Roombas on steroids, you know, the Roomba was a, it's a single purpose, little vacuum robot that just goes around your house.
But it's in the wild today. It like actually works. It's actually useful for people.
An even better example I think is the dishwasher, which is in pretty much every home in the United States right now. And it saves you a ton of time. Like when you're, like my dishwasher broke last week, terrible experience when your dishwasher breaks. The dishwasher is a single purpose robot. That's actually out there in the wild. We should be striving to create something as useful as the dishwasher. That should be the North Star right now for a lot of companies. And there are. So I went on Twitter today and I saw this great video that was about a company called Electric Sheep. Have you seen this?