Jiten Behl, companion at Eclipse Ventures and former chief progress officer at Rivian, thinks we’re coming into an period of main re-industrialization within the U.S. — one the place factories run on AI-powered robots, not low-cost abroad labor.
Behl, who helped scale Rivian from a convention room concept in 2015 to a publicly traded EV maker, is now investing within the subsequent wave of business and mobility startups, together with two Rivian spinouts: Additionally and Thoughts Robotics. It’s a part of Eclipse’s bigger guess that the bodily world is lastly prepared for the type of disruption software program noticed a decade in the past.
At the moment on iinfoai’s Fairness podcast, Kirsten Korosec sits down with Behl to speak about why Rivian retains spinning out corporations, what founders within the “bodily world” want that software program founders don’t, and why automation is changing into obligatory if the U.S. desires to compete with out Chinese language provide chains.
Take heed to the total episode to listen to about:
- Why Behl seems to be for founders who’re each “hyper-optimistic” and grounded in actuality, and why that mixture is surprisingly uncommon, even in Silicon Valley.
- How vertical integration labored for Rivian however gained’t work for many startups right this moment.
- Behl’s prediction that autonomy will turn out to be “actual and one thing we are able to contact and really feel” within the subsequent 5 years.
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