In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Adrian Macneil, Co–founder and CEO of Foxglove. Foxglove makes Foxglove Studio, an open source visualization and debugging tool for robotics. Adrian speaks about the origin of Foxglove, Foxglove’s business model, web and robotics, and gives advice to those interested in getting more involved in robotics.

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– Adrian Macneil’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianmacneil}
– Foxglove’s website: https://foxglove.dev/}

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OUTLINE:
– (0:00:00) Start
– (0:00:57) Introducing Adrian and Foxglove
– (0:07:54) Origin of Foxglove
– (0:24:51) Developer productivity and the future of robotics
– (0:27:36) Building the Foxglove team
– (0:29:27) Why Adrian’s optimistic about opportunities in robotics
– (0:36:05) On putting 1000 engineers on a problem
– (0:39:35) Role of open source
– (0:42:03) Foxglove’s business model
– (0:45:15) Why Foxglove “Studio”?
– (0:46:53) How name Foxglove?
– (0:48:47) Explaining Foxglove Studio
– (0:50:45) Web and robotics
– (0:57:31) Web technologies on the backend
– (1:00:13) Reflecting on his work at Coinbase and Cruise
– (1:06:27) Timeline for autonomous cars + levels of autonomy
– (1:12:00) Advice for those interested in robotics
– (1:15:09) Info on getting in touch and contributing
– (1:16:33) Outro

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