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Cruise

also referred to as: cruise automation · cruises

11 statements across 8 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2016 by Nabeel Hyatt · said 105 times in 55 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (56), Nabeel Hyatt (9), Zach Coelius (5), Mike Maples (5), Ryan Petersen (3), Rory O'Driscoll (2), Michael Ma (2), Vinod Khosla (1)

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Everything said about Cruise, oldest first

Jun 8, 2016 positive
Disclosure
Hyatt: Spark's Biggest Wins Like Twitter Were Impossible to Model Initially
“If you look at all of our big wins from Oculus to Twitter to Tumblr to Cruise, like all of these companies were, at the day that we invested, were very hard to actually model the exact market size of that company,”
Nabeel Hyatt Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 13:21 20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
Jun 8, 2016 positive
Insight
Hyatt: Autonomous Vehicle Startups Must Partner With Major Automakers to Scale
“It, I think was the absolute right thing to do for the company. You know, I think I supported Kyle in decision, and it is a good exit but more importantly, you know, Kyle wants to lead the self-driving revolution, and we knew all along that that would require …”
Nabeel Hyatt Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 19:02 20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
Jun 8, 2016 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Hyatt: Cruise Built Tesla-Style Autopilot Long Before Tesla Did
“So the kind of autopilot that we now see in Tesla, only they had produced it, you know long before Tesla had produced it.”
Nabeel Hyatt Jun 8, 2016 ▶ 17:17 20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
Oct 10, 2016 bullish
Disclosure
Maples: Backed Cruise Over Internal Pushback Because Kyle Vogt Made Him Money
“I came in and I said, I want to do this cruise deal. I think that Kyle's really smart. He made me money on Twitch and I, you know, I've decided I want to do it. And a lot of people read me the riot act and said, this is crazy.”
Mike Maples Oct 10, 2016 ▶ 9:15 20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
Aug 9, 2017 positive
Insight
Quintini: Winning frontier tech companies build end-to-end products with empathetic design
“What I see happening in Frontier now is a humanization of technology, right? Companies are building end-to-end solutions. Even if you're, you know, if you think about the big successes in Frontier, like a Tesla, Nest, Invest an Oculus or Cruz. They're going al…”
Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 26:57 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital
Jun 3, 2019
Disclosure
Coelius's first three angel investments were Branch, OneSignal, and Cruise
“Branch was the first one. A company called OneSignal, which is doing really well, was my second. Cruise Automation was my third”
Zach Coelius Jun 3, 2019 ▶ 4:42 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
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
Aug 16, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Kan: The initial idea for Cruise came entirely from co-founder Kyle Vogt
“When it comes to Cruise, this was all my co-founder Kyle's idea. He's a CTO now, and I was wrapping up my last startup, and it seemed like a great idea, or at the very least, a really interesting story, and it turns out it was.”
Daniel Kan Aug 16, 2019 ▶ 4:50 20VC: Cruise's Daniel Kan on Lessons From Scaling The Team From 40 To 1,500 People, How Daniel Thinks About Continuous Learning & Self-Development and Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong
Aug 16, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kan: Sam Altman brought whiskey to celebrate GM acquisition, found team working
“I always think about the time when we announced that we were being acquired by General Motors, which by all means is, you know, a great feat for such a small company at the time. And Sam Altman came into our office to celebrate and he brought a bottle of whisk…”
Daniel Kan Aug 16, 2019 ▶ 14:41 20VC: Cruise's Daniel Kan on Lessons From Scaling The Team From 40 To 1,500 People, How Daniel Thinks About Continuous Learning & Self-Development and Why CEOs Hiring Themselves Out Of Roles Is Wrong
Aug 7, 2023 negative
Opinion
Khosla: Waymo and Cruise self-driving models are not transformative for cities
“I think the Waymo approach and the cruise approach is nice. It adds functionality. It's not transformative of cities.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 42:48 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 30, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Uber partnering with Waymo and Cruise is the right long-term strategy
“I think the decision to partner with You know, the leading AV players in the space, doing things with, like, the Waymos and the Cruises of the world, and trying to bring their fleets onto Uber is the right long-term strategy.”
Scott Gorlick Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 36:46 Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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