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Obviously, the more people that are actually creating for Misty, the better. We'd love to have a developer buy one, start playing around with it... Or if you're not in a position to buy one, we do have some units that can go out as loaner units, so you can start experimenting with your idea, testing it out... |
It's definitely a time when you have a lot of time doing different things maybe than you were doing before. I know I am. It's kind of weird - before the show, like I was saying, I've talked to people over text, and my team over Slack, and stuff, but... I haven't talked to somebody in like three days... \[laughs\] It's ... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Well, I'm glad to be here for you, Ian. I'm glad to be here for you, you know? It's what I'm here for. |
**Ian Bernstein:** \[laughs\] Yeah, I appreciate it... I appreciate it. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I really enjoy doing this show, because I think it's a unique time to have this kind of conversation. If we had had this conversation a couple months ago, we would have obviously not mentioned Coronavirus or things happening now... But I think it's just interesting having these conversations with fo... |
Coming from Sphero not that it wasn't important - toys, very educational, but moving to a useful space where you can provide utility for people that would not otherwise have utility when a human can't be there for them, for whatever reason; whenever a robot makes more sense. And I commend you for that. That's a big dea... |
**Ian Bernstein:** \[01:12:22.13\] I appreciate it. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** And thank you so much for sharing your story here on Founders Talk, it's been great talking to you. Is there anything maybe on the horizon that not many people know about? Something coming out soon, that you can mention here on the end of the show? |
**Ian Bernstein:** A lot of exciting stuff coming up. A lot of what we're working on right now is "How do we connect people better together?" How do we get the people who have ideas? |
I'm gonna use an example without a name - a person on the East Coast that came to us early on, who was disabled, and she was like "Oh my God, Misty could help me in these exact ways. Here's how Misty could help me." And I related; I tore my ACL a little over a year ago, and for a few weeks I was disabled. Getting a gla... |
If I could just put it in Misty's hands and have Misty follow me with a glass of water to the couch, that would have been amazing. And that was only like a couple-week period where I was on crutches. People live like that. That would be huge for them, something so simple. So how do we connect the people with ideas to t... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** "What do I do?", yeah. |
**Ian Bernstein:** I don't know. What's my first project? I don't have a goal, really. I have to come up with a goal; that's like the hardest part. Once you know what you're gonna build, you're like an engineer. That's the easy part; we figure that stuff out. So how do we connect the people with ideas and real problems... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** And what's the first step for those people? How do they help you on the idea side, and then help you and be there, available to sort of tackle some of these problems that unique people out there are able to surface for a robot like Misty? |
**Ian Bernstein:** That's what we're working through right now - how do we connect these two groups of people directly? We don't need to be the middle person. So everything from a Cragistlist posting ideas, with like "I'm a developer. Give me an idea" to maybe something more formal... So I would say that's the next pie... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah. Well, when you get there, let us know, because we'd love to share that with our community, to give them that opportunity... Because there's a lot of people out there who are in a unique spot where they do have some boredom, potentially even lots of time... I know me as a parent - it's impossib... |
**Ian Bernstein:** Yeah. Let's create this future together. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Let's do it. Ian, thank you so much for sharing your story and sharing your time with us. We really appreciate it, thank you. |
**Ian Bernstein:** Yeah, it was fun. |
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