General Motors
also referred to as: gm
includes General Motors EV1
14 statements across 10 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Frank Chen · said 100 times in 36 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Marc Andreessen (24), Steven Sinofsky (20), Qasar Younis (9), Frank Chen (9), Ben Horowitz (9), Peter Thiel (4), Benedict Evans (4), Prasad Akella (3)
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2026 27 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- The Media Game Has Changed
- Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
- AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 48 mentions in 18 episodes 3 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- a16z Podcast | Automation + Work, Human + Machine
- a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
Everything said about General Motors, oldest first
Jul 16, 2017 neutral
Jul 16, 2017
Jan 2, 2019
Judy Smith: PR spokespersons lack authority to deliver core corporate crisis apologies
“I think if it's something that goes in direct relationship to the core of the company something like GM you would want to see the CEO out there apologizing and owning that and making sure that, that CEO is communicating what they're going to do differently. So…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Cooper: JOBS Act right-sized SEC filing regulations for early-stage companies
“One of the things that Job Act did was kind of modify the regulatory requirements around those filings to kind of right-size it for what is appropriate for an earlier stage company instead of what might be appropriate, for example, for a GM or a Goldman Sachs …”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Rigetti: Despite incumbent efforts, Tesla is the only electric car company
“General Motors is building an electric car, and still, there's got to be a Tesla, and eventually electric cars and hybrids are going to kind of be a technology that is adopted across the industry, but there's one electric car company. There's one that matters.”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019
May 16, 2024 bearish
Horowitz: GM is vulnerable to Tesla because it only assembles cars
“GM is totally vulnerable to Tesla and BYD. This is why, you know, HP ended up being totally vulnerable to Apple because Apple was still building computers and HP was assembling computers and GM is assembling cars and Elon completely kind of re-engineered how y…”
May 19, 2026 positive
Mavrookas: Auto/aerospace workers failing at shipbuilding signals bad design
“If somebody can't come out of somebody who's building a car for Ford or General Motors or an airplane at Boeing or a rocket ship for SpaceX, And we can't get them highly effective building ships quickly. That's our fault. That means our design isn't simple eno…”
Jul 7, 2026
Jul 21, 2026 neutral