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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 31:10 Matteo Franceschetti Probably your bot buying a cyber cab that will start making money for you. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:59 Matteo Franceschetti We want to democratize sleep, so the, the way I always say is, imagine if we were Tesla, we are the Model S.
- ▶ 44:59 Matteo Franceschetti We want to democratize sleep, so the, the way I always say is, imagine if we were Tesla, we are the Model S.
- ▶ 45:07 Matteo Franceschetti Uh, there will be the roadster, so there will be something even better, but you will also see us coming out with the model X and Y and three.
- ▶ 45:07 Matteo Franceschetti Uh, there will be the roadster, so there will be something even better, but you will also see us coming out with the model X and Y and three.
- ▶ 45:07 Matteo Franceschetti Uh, there will be the roadster, so there will be something even better, but you will also see us coming out with the model X and Y and three.
- ▶ 45:07 Matteo Franceschetti Uh, there will be the roadster, so there will be something even better, but you will also see us coming out with the model X and Y and three.
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 41:50 Harry Stebbings We have in the transport space, Elon launches cyber trucks, rave reviews.
- ▶ 41:56 Rory O'Driscoll Cyber cabs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:25 Rory O'Driscoll The cyber cab launch, you know, if you fast forward, was a little more underwhelming than your, perhaps your notes might say, Harry, right? 6 times in the scene
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 57:25 Cliff Weitzman And I'm going to talk to you about SpaceX and Tesla, like they're one company, because really I'm assessing Elon, I'm not assessing everything, like, 3 times in the scene
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 30:39 Rory O'Driscoll When I'm driving my Tesla with FSD, right, I live a pretty boring life.
- ▶ 30:39 Rory O'Driscoll When I'm driving my Tesla with FSD, right, I live a pretty boring life. 2 times in the scene
ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 14:30 Aaron Katz I mean, Tesla, for example, is ingesting a billion events per second into ClickHouse.
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 1:22:42 Rory O'Driscoll Right, and he does the hundred meters really quickly, and I'm looking at going, you know something, if I want a machine to do a hundred meters really quickly, I'll get a frickin' Tesla.
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 14:10 Jerry Murdock I mean, um, Tesla's were really expensive at the beginning, uh, and only wealthy people could afford a Tesla at the beginning, and now that's changed, and so 2 times in the scene
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 25:21 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, who do you think is a bigger threat, Waymo or Tesla? 3 times in the scene
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:00:12 Rory O'Driscoll Elon in the first, the 2018 Tesla package, and obviously after a lot of two-ing and four-ing, he got another package just recently, finally approved after they moved to Texas. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:07 Rory O'Driscoll You have to do Optimus.
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 20:57 David Frankel So, if you look at SpaceX, Tesla,
- ▶ 1:13:32 David Frankel And if you look at the subsidies for energy, if you look at a Tesla today, this is the thing that kind of, I don't really get about Elon is 2 times in the scene
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 6:27 Nikesh Arora Are we Tesla? 3 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:45 Rory O'Driscoll Tesla with FSD.
- ▶ 9:45 Rory O'Driscoll Tesla with FSD.
Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:04 Nikesh Arora That's my Tesla, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:06 Nikesh Arora Tesla used to drive just the highway for me, and now it's getting better at, in other streets, it's slowly getting better, but still I'm holding the steering wheel very often, and it'll tell me you're not paying attention, and look at…
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:41 Everett Randle And I feel like everyone has gone through this experience. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:35 Everett Randle And so the, the, like, the amount of surplus, and by the way, you could say that about Tesla shareholders too, anyone that's held Tesla for 10 years, anyone that's, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:56 unnamed speaker I mean, Optimus, Tesla's that bad.
- ▶ 1:22:56 unnamed speaker I mean, Optimus, Tesla's that bad. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:41 Matan Grinberg Visually, whenever I say this, I always think of Tesla's factories. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:30 unnamed speaker Plus Neuralink, plus he's controlling people's bodies with his brains, plus the Hyperloop, plus Tesla. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:45 unnamed speaker Like we did when the test, the roadster came out, but no one can, outside of China, no one can approach what he's done in EVs.
- ▶ 1:00:08 unnamed speaker Cause I mean, if nothing else, you can't compete with the model, a model three, you can lease Harry in the U S for 299 dollars a month. 4 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:55 Jason Lemkin We had a little Napa retreat break after Sastry annual this year, and it, the, the, the, the Tesla took us the long way through the South Bay, which I haven't done in a while, rather than the bridge.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:26:30 Cliff Weitzman I put one third of my money into Tesla in 20, 25, sorry, 2015.
- ▶ 1:29:56 Cliff Weitzman The reason why I invested in Tesla way back in the day was because I found Elon Musk from a Wikipedia article from the co-CEOs of SolarCity.
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:47 Tobi Lütke That's cool to have that option, and, um, it's also an amazing car, so, like, I have a Model Y. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:21 unnamed speaker If that had happened to Tesla, where they have a massive car plant in China, they'd be coming to the table right now with, um, the Chinese government and saying, maybe we should unwind this transaction because you've got a lot of leverage… 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:43 unnamed speaker I think that you're definitely seeing the Elon premium come off on Tesla, which has been worth pointing out, 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:14 unnamed speaker He made a brilliant call to align with SpaceX, been on the board of Tesla and SpaceX. 3 times in the scene
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:00 unnamed speaker Build the equivalent, I think, almost 70% of the value of all of TSMC, right, in the US near the Gigafactory because across the chip need for Tesla and perceived and the potential chip need, I'm picking my words carefully, for SpaceX to… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 unnamed speaker They had a Jay Leno where he was the first one to test the new Tesla semi. 2 times in the scene
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:40 Jason Lemkin Maybe he would have owned autonomy with Tesla in a way that, that, that, that you can't, who knows, but
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 1:52 Jason Lemkin So when SolarCity needed more money and wasn't going to make it, he mashed that into Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:30 unnamed speaker Interestingly, of all the mega caps, the bag seven, with the exception of Tesla, obviously, which trades at an astronomical multiple, all are kind of in that 23 plus or minus forward PE.
- ▶ 1:10:39 unnamed speaker Tesla trades at 1.2 trillion plus or minus. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:02 unnamed speaker And Optimus. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:22 Jason Lemkin Because all of his Teslas, he may be behind, but he's already got millions of vehicles he can turn on any time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:12 unnamed speaker Cause so, you know, the question is, I mean, I love my full self driving and they not yet being able to roll out without complete elimination of safety drivers.
- ▶ 1:17:02 Jason Lemkin If I could lease a Model three base for 300 bucks a month and I could turn it on, which is and it goes off and makes me 600 bucks a month and I just have to hose it off and and wipe out some puke on Saturday night, a lot of people are…
- ▶ 1:19:13 unnamed speaker I mean, my mental model is on SpaceX and Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:29 Harry Stebbings Someone very brilliant who I'm very close to said to me the other day, who's very close to, to Tesla and to a lot of the inner working said they will, you will be surprised in five years time that they were ever known for cars, given the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:58 Jason Lemkin I think it's going to be a cyber truck, but I don't know.
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:12 Rory O'Driscoll I would not like to think of the Tesla stock price if Mr.
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:52 Jason Lemkin Um, a degree in arts from Colby College, um, and some engineering product manager at Tesla.
- ▶ 1:02:50 Jason Lemkin Tesla already figures out this works because they're early in AI.
20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
- ▶ 1:00:06 Chad Peets Look, I mean, XAI is going to have Optimus, right? 2 times in the scene
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:24 unnamed speaker The story stocks that are worth, you know, 70 times revenues or 20 times revenues, the Palantir's, the Teslas, the way that happened is people bought in, a lot of retail bought in early, made out like bandits and believed. 2 times in the scene
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:46 Jason Calacanis Yeah, I mean, it's a different time, but if you just compare Tesla and SpaceX just for fun, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:01 unnamed speaker I mean, if you look at Tesla, it's trading north of a trillion, it's roughly a hundred and something billion in revenue, earnings are down, you kind of apply a normal multiple, maybe you get three hundred billion. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:36 Jason Calacanis Everything's, everything's behind from the Model S to the Model three to, to Starlink.
- ▶ 1:10:36 Jason Calacanis Everything's, everything's behind from the Model S to the Model three to, to Starlink.
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:20 Jason Lemkin A little facetious there, but, but, um, what, what is, what do you, I don't know what the retail premium is for a hot name, but it could be, it's, it's, it's boosted Tesla over the years for sure.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:25 Jonathan Siddharth Walking the factory floor and asking an engineer why this door in the model three has three bolts instead of, ah, instead of maybe two, right?
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:05 unnamed speaker I definitely gonna look at that if I'm Tesla.
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:29 Andrew Feldman And after we did it, uh, Elon tried Dojo and they failed.
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:26 Jonathan Ross And when you look around the industry, you've got a bunch of people building chips, some of them are getting canceled, like Dojo recently got canceled.
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:27 unnamed speaker Um, and one of the exercises it did was to say, how certain would you have to be that Tesla's an outperformer to be a hundred percent Tesla from the 2010 IPO on?
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:51 Kaz Nejatian Like, I think Tesla was not above 10% in any market it was selling cars in, it may, not until last year.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:51 Rory O'Driscoll It's basically the board saying, you know, we're the eighth or ninth largest market cap company on the planet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:40 Rory O'Driscoll Ten million in FSD. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:52 Jeff Lawson The downside case being that Tesla is overvalued and that it's all the cult of personality of Elon Musk that creates that value. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:25 Jason Lemkin Well, Tesla's the only one that can really do what it does.
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:58 Cliff Obrecht Really what Tesla have done with electric cars.
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:21 Byron Deeter One of the most famous and most painful for me was Tesla early on. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:30 Byron Deeter And it was because, uh, I couldn't fundamentally see how the unit economics of the roadster were ever going to work.
- ▶ 50:18 Byron Deeter Tesla and Atlassian and companies like that front and center.
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- ▶ 42:54 Peter Rahal And now I just have a Tesla, like a Model Y and it does the job beautifully.
- ▶ 42:54 Peter Rahal And now I just have a Tesla, like a Model Y and it does the job beautifully.
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:58 Jason Lemkin Elon can say, whoops, did you see what, did you see how I just did the new geofencing for my Tesla?
- ▶ 1:03:23 Jason Lemkin Clearly he understands AI from Tesla at a fundamental level that other folks don't. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:15 Jason Lemkin It's, it's Tesla level. 3 times in the scene
Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:42 Vlad Tenev You've got Tesla, where AI is maybe
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:30 unnamed speaker Congratulations, you were, you know, you pissed off two million people, and the owner of X, SpaceX, and Tesla loves you, you in. 3 times in the scene
Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:47 Scott Galloway And that eventually a competitor comes along, whether it's BYD and Tesla.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:35 unnamed speaker That's not quite as true for Tesla.
- ▶ 1:04:34 unnamed speaker Reminder, as late as December, January, there was the, oh my God, it's going to be amazing for Tesla trade going on in the market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:04 Jason Lemkin I mean, Tesla's the closest to a consumer product of those until the, and so he's alienated a certain segment of his population, which has impacted, you saw it in Europe most, most extremely, right? 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 44:37 Harry Stebbings If you have a breaking bad, I think that's amazing, but we also have, like, Trump's buying a Tesla and, you know, a war, and, like, it just takes so much more to cut through the news cycle that, like, a breaking bad prize draw, like, is it?
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Will Elon be out as Tesla's CEO before 2027?
- ▶ 1:21:43 Harry Stebbings Um, back into Tesla and everything in between.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:29 Rory O'Driscoll And we can talk about his automation in the Tesla plant as an example of that.
20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
- ▶ 18:51 Mayur Gupta So like, look at Tesla. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:40 Mayur Gupta But once you've scaled, if you're not investing in upper funnel and you're not differentiating yourself, unless you're a Tesla where the product has differentiated itself from the clutter, you are just going to be a commodity because you…
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:10 Jason Wilk Like Tesla, I'd argue would not be a trillion dollar private company, but because of sort of the, the cult generation they've developed, the Tesla owners that buy the stock, they're the ones that have pushed it above and beyond any… 2 times in the scene
20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
- ▶ 13:21 Aatish Nayak Tesla and Waymo, basically, and they have near infinite data and near infinite capital, and there's a wake of a graveyard of a lot of companies that, you know, end up failing, and you can't say, oh, the founders are bad. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:23:26 Harry Stebbings Dude, your president's flogging Teslas on his front lawn, and then J.D.
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