Apr 5, 2026
What happens when a company starts with one cool idea, then realizes the real business is hiding in the pieces they built along the way?
In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, Bob Raida and Dabe
Rollinson of HEBI Robotics share how it evolved from snake robots
to a modular robotics platform designed to help people build
faster, test sooner, and get real tools into the real world.
Their idea is simple: build, test, learn, repeat. HEBI found value
not by clinging to the original idea, but by recognizing what
customers could actually use and moving toward it.
This is a smart reminder for any entrepreneur: sometimes the first idea is not the business, but the capabilities you build along the way might be. HEBI's story is a great lesson in product-market fit, staying adaptable, and testing early before you burn years on the wrong problem.
Watch the entire interview with HEBI right here.
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