Lachy Groom
Lachy Groom is a co-founder of Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco-based company developing foundation models and learning algorithms for robotics. He was an early employee at Stripe, where he led products including Stripe Issuing, and later spent several years as an angel investor backing companies such as Figma, Notion, and Ramp before co-founding Physical Intelligence in 2024. He is best known for transitioning from a Stripe executive and prolific angel investor to building a company focused on general-purpose AI for physical robots.
“Lockie Groom: Co-founder of Physical Intelligence; former investor/operator. He set it up right. And I think this was the first time where I had somebody else set up even higher ambitions for us.”
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