SCOUT· 61%1h 22m·2026-09-08·TechnologyHow we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Roman Ugarte helped incubate and build Grok Bot, the popular new knowledge-work agent from SpaceXAI. A small, isolated team took it from first line of code to a working internal product in four weeks, and to a hugely successful public launch just three weeks later. Before Grok Bot, Roman led Growth at Cursor, where he…
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