Chapter 12 — Decoupling the MVP
18 references
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| 1 | Figure 12.1 — Rabbit R1 AI assistant device — If it looks like a prototype, maybe it's not ready for mass market commons.wikimedia.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 2 | Figure 12.2 — Humane AI Pin: $230 million in venture capital, 10,000 units shipped, e-waste by February 2025 flickr.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 3 | Figure 12.4 — Singing in the car: a behavior validated by culture long before anyone tried to productize it pexels.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 4 | Figure 12.6 — Caraoke Android MVP: scrolling lyrics, real-time voice mixing, and playback controls — the full experience validated on a phone before any custom hardware was committed kindgeek.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 5 | Rabbit raised approximately $65 million in venture capital across five rounds, led by Khosla Ventures. "Rabbit r1," Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 6 | Following its CES 2024 announcement, Rabbit sold 130,000 R1 units across multiple batches. "Rabbit R1 sales by batch 2024," Statista statista.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 7 | Security researchers found the R1 ran a customized Android 13 build (MediaTek mt6765) and that its "Large Action Model" functionality could be replicated as a standard Android app. David Buchanan, "Rabbit R1 Boot Notes," GitHub, 2024 github.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 8 | "The Rabbit R1 has Android 13 under the hood," Android Authority, 2024 androidauthority.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 9 | "Rabbit R1 review: an unfinished, unhelpful AI gadget," The Verge, 2024 theverge.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 10 | "What's next for Rabbit? Employees say they haven't been paid for months while company teases new AI hardware," Yahoo Finance, 2025 finance.yahoo.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 11 | "Rabbit R1's OpenClaw Update Could Be Its Most Important Moment Yet," Yanko Design, March 2026 yankodesign.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 12 | "Rabbit plots its redemption arc," Engadget, 2026 engadget.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 13 | Humane raised $230 million across three rounds, including a $100 million Series C in March 2023. Investors included Sam Altman, Microsoft, Qualcomm Ventures, and Tiger Global. "Humane AI pin startup shuts down, sells to HP for $116M after burning through $230M," Tech Startups, 2025 techstartups.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 14 | "Returns of Humane AI Pin outpacing sales," MacRumors, August 2024 macrumors.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 15 | The CPSC recalled approximately 10,500 Charge Case accessories due to lithium battery overheating and fire hazard. "Humane Recalls Charge Case Accessory for Ai Pin Due to Lithium Battery Fire Hazard," US Consumer Product Safety Commission, October 2024 cpsc.gov | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 16 | "Humane's AI Pin is dead, as HP buys startup's assets for $116M," TechCrunch, February 2025 techcrunch.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 17 | iFixit teardown found the R1 used a MediaTek Helio P35 (a budget processor from 2018), a 1,000 mAh lithium-polymer battery, and a fully glued construction with poor repairability. "Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin: A Quick Look at the Hardware," iFixit, 2024 ifixit.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 18 | Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Critical Chain (Great Barrington, MA: North River Press, 1997). Goldratt's insight is that in multi-track projects, the binding constraint is not the longest individual task but the longest dependent sequence – the critical chain. Protecting it means starting its tasks as early… en.wikipedia.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |