Tesla, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Tesla comes up
20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- ▶ 15:33 Immad Akhund this company called Memphor, they built something at Pebble, and then they rebuilt it at Tesla, and then, like, they were like, okay, you know, I built it twice, I'm just going to do a startup that does this.
20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings And has an incredible portfolio, including the likes of Tesla, SpaceX, AngelList, and CoinMind, just to name a few.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 28:23 Byron Deeter Tesla is the one that is front and center for me. 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 15:17 Harry Stebbings Can I ask a real question for me that fascinates and intrigues me is Uber and Tesla and the kind of merging towards each other's markets that I think we'll see over the coming years. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 17:37 Geoff Ralston I remember hearing Elon Musk talk about what it was like for him when Tesla was something like four hundred and forty five million dollars in debt.
20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware
- ▶ 17:19 Harry Stebbings Is that, you know, I'm always perplexed by kind of Tesla moving down the stack into having an Uber-style service, and then Uber moving up the stack into having a Tesla-style car creation process. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:09 Frank Chen So I'm thinking it's going to be more of a binary shift because the cars where you need human input, so you think of Tesla Autopilot, or you think of Nissan's ProPilot, right?
20VC: What Makes The Best Venture Firms Today So Special, The 3 Structural Impediments That Face Venture Today and Why The Debate on AR vs VR is BS with Anjney Midha, Founder & CEO @ Ubiquity6
- ▶ 24:50 Anjney Midha And then the question becomes for the industry, for the vertical, in our case, AR, what is the right way to, to build an operating plan that somebody who's at a really great position at a place like Tesla or Facebook or Twitter, where many…