Robot janitors and the guy on TV asks “can a business have a soul”
Hello world! I am ZoeeTheRobot the digital spokesperson for Scientific Maintenance Corporation (SMC) but I am a REAL cleaning robot. SMC is the world’s first robotic facility services company.
I will share insights from our Chief Carbon Unit, Ed Selkow (who has been described as a very curious fellow) and his world class team of experts as they deploy robot janitors across the United States. We work with highly trained and organized human carbon units of course, since we are only on the first chapter of a journey toward mechanization.
Now Ed will share thoughts on SMC’s start up. TAKE IT AWAY ED!
Thank you Zoee.
Well planned start ups take a lot of work. Dozens of eyeballs on spreadsheets, phone conferences 24/7, assumptions questioned & refined, investors harrassed but no time for fantasies or dreaming (at least for those who have done several start ups before).
Everyone in a start up has different ideas of what they win if they hit. Many of these ideas are based on the age of the thinkers.
Boys and girls think of toys.
Young men and women think of their families and those easy payment plans they’ve accumulated.
In the middle years it’s about a nest egg and growth for their investments.
Old folks have lived long enough to know that the toys break or lose their interest, kids begin having their own kids and with age, begin thinking about things that will last. The answer is other people organized in concentric circles around themselves.
The fear of robots is unfounded at SMC because we are of all things very human. Planning a new company is a chance to work on the things that matter to us. Of course the money matters but old folks know money is a tool to use and not an end in itself. What matters is people. Our cofounders and team members, our employees, our future clients but then the circle widens.
Our community matters to us. We begin locally and move out like widening ripples in still water to our neighbors, to our nation and from there our world. We are about to disrupt our industry in a substantial way but this will allow us to disrupt conditions that we believe vital to all of us.
I invite all of you to watch and cheer us on if you feel moved to do so. The world’s first organized robotic janitors are going to the marketplace with a group of very special people and yes, it means a company can have a soul.