Ali Kashani is the co-founder and CEO of Serve Robotics. His first company almost died many times, and in 2017 he was fired from it. He moved to Silicon Valley anyway, built a sidewalk delivery robot inside Postmates, spun it out of Uber in 2021, and took Serve public. He has done what almost no one in robotics has: put robots on real streets in dozens of cities and made people love them.
Takeaways from SecondPod conversations, plus essays on AI, private markets and the people building what comes next. Written by Ardalan Javadi.
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