Tesla, every mention
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Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:18 Harry Stebbings He owns the roads around the town hall with Tesla.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:17 Torsten Reil The thing that we have to avoid is the Tesla moment for the defense sector.
- ▶ 38:44 Torsten Reil The thing that we have to avoid is the Tesla moment, uh, for the defense sector.
Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:55 Guy Podjarny Um, that's kind of more the, the, the workflow approach, you know, frankly, more the Tesla path, and then there's the kind of outsourced, ah, lens, which I think agentic tends to be, just embrace the chaos a bit, or embrace the customer…
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:41 Klaus Hommels So, and if suddenly the self-driving cars are more dependent on low orbit satellites, do you think that in the competition between Tesla and the European car industry, we would have easy access to the Starlink?
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:12 Markus Villig So you have these approaches that use end-to-end neural nets, like what Tesla and Wave here in the UK are doing.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:34 Matt Grimm If you architect your products to be upgrade friendly, if you upgrade your, uh, you design your products around a software kind of, kind of mentality where you can, you know, thinking similarly to how Tesla approaches their, their fleet of…
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:11 David Frankel Tesla, I don't know, look at Netscape, right?
- ▶ 1:30:08 David Frankel You know, it puts, like, again, Elon, like, SpaceX and Tesla, just puts that in, like, insane, but this was, like, the moonshot of moonshots, and a lot of the time, like, you look at Frederic de Lesseps.
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:02 Eiso Kant The best example of this is Elon and Tesla. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:06 Eiso Kant Elon has put millions of cars on the road that are actually capturing every single engagement and disengagement with autopilot and every single scenario, and extending that back to Tesla to train increasingly more capable AI.
- ▶ 7:17 Eiso Kant And if you look at how full self-driving got more capable over the years, it's directly relational to 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:31 Eiso Kant If you've been in your latest, you know, Tesla FSD update, that gap feels getting closer and closer to be closed.
- ▶ 50:42 Eiso Kant And then he went and started, you know, Tesla and SpaceX, and we thought he was even crazier.
Aman Narang: 5 Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | E1192 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:18 Aman Narang I remember one, one discussion I had was restaurant owners, like, it's great that you've got the Tesla, but it's, it's not helpful when it's always in the shop, right?
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:58 Kaz Nejatian Like, Tesla spends a shocking amount of time building robots that build Tesla cars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:08 Harry Stebbings But when we look at, you know, um, Google, when we look at Amazon, when we look at Microsoft, when we look at Elon Musk and, you know, X and Tesla, and when we then extrapolate that out across everyone worth over a hundred billion dollars,…
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:26 Delian Asparouhov Service Titan is actually closer to LVMH than it is to Tesla.
- ▶ 19:19 Delian Asparouhov I don't think that Elon Musk went around, you know, interviewing consumers about whether or not they wanted electric vehicles when he decided to go build Tesla, or, you know, asked NASA whether they want, you know, sort of cheaper and…
- ▶ 59:34 Delian Asparouhov I do think that, you know, sort of distribution point and branding point is real, but then that's what people would need to recognize is like, you know, Service Titan is actually closer to LVMH than it is to Tesla.
Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:17 Harry Stebbings Does having Dropbox, Tesla, da da da, does that really work or is it like, eh?
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:46 Val Scholz Tesla's robots, and I think Boston Dynamics.
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:34 Harry Stebbings And it basically showed countries, ah, different kind of creation of EV providers, and it showed like the US, and it was like the US, I mean, without Tesla, it would have been in the dumps, because it would have only had me in General…
- ▶ 1:03:47 Alex Wang Um, Tesla autopilot has gotten really good.
Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:33 Mike Schroepfer Tesla was the first out in electric cars, built a lot of thing.
- ▶ 27:24 Mike Schroepfer It's sort of, you know, again, back to Tesla, the reason they got successful in the early is, like,
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:49 Jason Lemkin With fifteen million dollars in the bank, they fired everyone, just like Elon, but Elon's a better founder, fired a supercharger team.
Mark Suster: Why Private Equity Will Replace IPOs and M&A as the Exit Path | E1147 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:54 Mark Suster Tesla's a hardware company.
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:17 Girish Mathrubootham इन कंपनियों से आनलाइन आये प्रोडक्ट को देखा, यह उनके उपयोग के लिए अच्छा था, बेशक, यह एक enterprise व्यापक सौधा नहीं था, लेकिन यह बड़े enterprise की एक team के लिए था, जैसे अगर आपको याद हो, Tesla ने जिस company को खरीदा था, वो दूसरी Elon…
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:57 Girish Mathrubootham Uh, like if you remember, there was a company that Tesla bought, uh, uh, another Elon Musk company called SolarCity.
Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:05 Peter Wagner Famous, you know, big important companies like Tesla, you know, that wouldn't be what they are today if there were, if, you know, if there wasn't sort of certain miracle financings that occurred at just, at just the right time, you know,…
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:43 Frank Quattrone It's been concentrated, and now it's the Magnificent Seven, because Nvidia is part of that, and Tesla, and, um, a lot of the, a lot of the comeback has been in those stocks, but if you look at the average cloud, um, software play, which is…
Ryan Akkina: How MIT Builds Their Venture Fund Portfolio & How MIT Approach Direct Investing | E1109 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:59 Ryan Akkina Uh, not to say I have a hard, uh, a really hard set view either way, but I think I used to be much more skeptical of them, and I think the existence of things like, you know, Tesla and SpaceX and Enduro have, uh, forced me to reconsider…
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:43 Jason Lemkin That is enough to get a model three performance.