Top of Mind with Brad Porter
He built Amazon’s robot army. Then walked away. Why? To build something bigger. Top of Mind is a weekly 2–5 minute audio drop from Brad Porter—former Amazon VP of Robotics, Scale AI CTO, and now founder of Cobot. Each short episode delivers raw, unfiltered insights on leadership, automation, and the chaos of building at the edge of physical AI. From warehouse floors to the frontier of machine intelligence, this is what it sounds like when a Silicon Valley leader thinks out loud.
Top of Mind with Brad Porter
Sustainable Energy
Top of mind for me this week is personal energy management. At Cobot, one of our credos is sustainable energy. The idea is that we need to be a high-output, high-energy, high-intensity work environment. You can’t really do a startup and just coast. That doesn’t work. On the other hand, burning out is a recipe for making a lot of bad decisions. It’s a recipe for being really inefficient with your time. We think a lot about what sustainability really means.
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