Alex Rodrigues

10 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 5, 2019 by Alex Rodrigues · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jul 5, 2019
Insight
Rodrigues: Make clear crisis decisions by framing problems as advising a friend
“Yeah, I think it's easy to get wrapped up in the emotions of it, but I try to step outside myself and think, if this was a friend of mine who was having this problem, and they came to me and said, hey, here's the situation, what do you think? And sometimes I'l…”
Alex Rodrigues Jul 5, 2019 ▶ 31:18 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
Jul 5, 2019 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2034
Rodrigues predicts widely deployed self-driving vehicles in 10 to 15 years
“In 10 to 15 years, we'll see widely deployed self-driving vehicles.”
Alex Rodrigues Jul 5, 2019 ▶ 10:02 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
Jul 5, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rodrigues: Autonomous truck fleets could create $6 trillion in enterprise value
“3.8 trillion dollars of trucking revenue worldwide. New next generation self-driving powered trucking fleet are able to earn even 10% margin and get even like a conservative 16 X PE ratio. You run those numbers together and we're talking about six trillion dol…”
Alex Rodrigues Jul 5, 2019 ▶ 10:25 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
Jul 5, 2019
Assertion Supported
Rodrigues: US truck driver shortage is driven by youth rejecting long-haul lifestyle
“America has a huge driver shortage right now. And so we're in a very different position in our relationship It's currently facing this huge shortage. And this is really being driven by the fact that younger people aren't getting into trucking because they don'…”
Alex Rodrigues Jul 5, 2019 ▶ 17:15 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
Jul 5, 2019 bullish
Opinion
Rodrigues: Cruise and Zoox are undervalued compared to AV's potential
“And like cruise is worth nineteen billion. Uber ATG is valued at seven. Zoops is valued at two. And so it's like huge, huge amounts of money, but not actually close to the 600 that you could sort of support when you look at what the long term value will be.”
Alex Rodrigues Jul 5, 2019 ▶ 13:15 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
Jul 5, 2019
Insight
Rodrigues: Hiring and firing are young founders' biggest weaknesses
“If I had to pick like specific things that I think young founders frequently don't understand how to do, I would say hiring and firing are probably the top.”
Alex Rodrigues Jul 5, 2019 ▶ 25:32 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
Jul 5, 2019 positive
Prediction Held up
Rodrigues: Autonomous vehicles will be fleet-owned public utilities, not private assets
“The people who will own this will be fleets, and they'll be available sort of on the push of a button.”
Alex Rodrigues Jul 5, 2019 ▶ 14:31 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
Jul 5, 2019 bullish
Insight
Rodrigues: Trucking is an order of magnitude larger than the advertising market
“So it's actually five hundred billion. So we like put that in context when technology came for advertising, it created two almost trillion dollar companies. And when we're talking about self-driving, we're talking about technology coming for an industry that's…”
Alex Rodrigues Jul 5, 2019 ▶ 13:53 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
Jul 5, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rodrigues: Autonomous vehicles will prioritize privacy over data monetization
“I think that you'll see a lot more privacy in this next wave of technical development because maybe in similar to how hardware businesses have an easier time where they're selling you a product and so They don't need to also get your data.”
Alex Rodrigues Jul 5, 2019 ▶ 16:19 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
Jul 5, 2019
Assertion Contradicted
Rodrigues: Average US trucker is 55, reducing AV labor displacement risks
“The average trucker is 55 today, I think you'll see a lot of things able to line up where we're coming in and filling roles that are presently empty instead of roles that are presently full.”
Alex Rodrigues Jul 5, 2019 ▶ 20:00 20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark
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