“He decided that he wanted to establish Microsoft in the Northwest. Big part of the reason being because the weather was so bad… there were far fewer external attractions to divert the interests of his engineers.”

“We chose not to use operating partners because we don't want to micromanage the founder.”

“We chose wheels because legs would consume more energy and there’s no guarantee the robot stays upright balanced”

“We just launched, actually, I should say relaunched an iPhone weather app called Check the Weather.”

“The agentic part of that then says, well, what I should do is send a note to the geotechnical engineers to get out there and bore a couple of holes and see whether or not it really is the bad ground or some other thing is happening”