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Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 1:24:03 Ben Horowitz and then got in an argument with Henry Ford and went to Chevy, or went to GM and, like, built Chevy and, like, all that kind of thing, and then went to work for the government for a dollar.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 16:46 Qasar Younis Cruise was this company that did amazing self-driving work, and then one accident, General Motors owns them, and they get
- ▶ 19:12 Marc Andreessen So, Cruise was a super high-flying Silicon Valley autonomy startup that was kind of running neck and neck with Tesla early on, and so forth, and, you know, very top-end team, and then they famously got bought by General Motors. 20 times in the scene
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 14:06 Steven Sinofsky And then you go and you find out, you know, General Motors isn't going to displace like 600,000 seats.
- ▶ 21:25 Steven Sinofsky And the difference between Ford and Toyota and General Motors and Daimler are just, are not
The Media Game Has Changed
- ▶ 17:07 Ben Horowitz General Motors. 2 times in the scene
Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
- ▶ 4:30 Dino Mavrookas 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,
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 27:47 Ben Horowitz And then, you know, they imagine that like General Motors can take Elon's place or something like that.
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
- ▶ 56:04 Noah Smith But if you look at GM, if you look at GM total vehicle production. 3 times in the scene
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 31:33 Chris Hayes Why isn't Progressive Auto Assurance or GM serving me ads here if this ad tech works? 2 times in the scene
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 10:38 Anish Acharya And so they came up with this idea called the Marshall Plan, right, where a number of, um, leading enterprises in the US got together like GE and General Motors and, and literally subsidized the massive reconstruction of Europe that helped…
Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
- ▶ 12:41 Qasar Younis If you look at the commercial side, how does, ah, like a big company like, ah, General Motors or, ah, or a Toyota or something like this acquire very similar technologies for their vehicles, and it's, ah, the, it starts fundamentally, and…
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 2:13 Qasar Younis The thing that you missed was, I went to the General Motors Institute undergrad, and, uh, I worked at General Motors, worked at Bosch, big, big tier one.
- ▶ 31:35 Qasar Younis It's like, you know, me going to the General Motors Institute for undergrad, growing up in Detroit, working at GM and Bosch is the, you know, biggest tier one supplier in automotive.
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 1:27 Ben Horowitz So, uh, when they're programmed, like, for example, at, uh, General Motors, when they're programmed to make a car, um,
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 27:50 Marc Andreessen And then there was another case where the GM dealership put up a sales chat bot, uh, and it talked the customer to buying a Tesla.
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 16:37 Ben Horowitz GM is totally vulnerable to Tesla and BYD. 4 times in the scene
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 9:22 Marc Andreessen In the modern era was called the EV-one, and it was a, it was a car made by General Motors, probably 20 years ago, uh, 25 years ago, and, um, and it basically, a handful of people bought them.
- ▶ 9:22 Marc Andreessen In the modern era was called the EV-one, and it was a, it was a car made by General Motors, probably 20 years ago, uh, 25 years ago, and, um, and it basically, a handful of people bought them.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 27:08 Qasar Younis Sloan was, so he's not technically the founder of General Motors, but Sloan and Kettering were essentially the leaders of General Motors. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:26 Qasar Younis Yeah, I worked, uh, five years at General Motors, two years at Bosch, and then we're in the same team on Google Maps.
- ▶ 38:55 Qasar Younis You know, the Arizona Proving Grounds for General Motors brought all of this, you know, business over the last 20 years.
a16z Podcast | Automation + Work, Human + Machine
- ▶ 0:56 Prasad Akella 94, I'm lined up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the Occupational Health and Safety Agency is threatening General Motors with a big fat fine because they weren't taking enough care of worker health on the line. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:13 Prasad Akella So we used to redo lines at GM when I was there.
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 4:49 Chris Dixon So you build a car, you know, 19 hundred-ish, you build cars, you have Ford and GM, et cetera.
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 0:43 Steven Sinofsky You know, we're in an interesting time, like certainly economically, like if you look at the, you know, the main US car companies, you know, Ford, Fiat, Chrysler, GM, all of them are worth 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:33 Steven Sinofsky Like, there's not like, for even GM that makes the bolt and the vault, it's not like there's this massive lithium-ion group 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:04 Steven Sinofsky It's like, like the Chevy Bolt dashboard looks like a GM dashboard from all the other cars.
- ▶ 22:59 Benedict Evans The crappiest GM car you can buy will have the same acceleration. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:32 Steven Sinofsky Was not dreamed up by the physicists at GM. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:53 Steven Sinofsky And, and they're putting them to work, and this notion of, of a learning company is what's incredibly important, and that's one of the things I would like to raise is this, is a great car company example, which is we talked about my years… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:25 Benedict Evans Yes, I mean, I suppose you could argue that the kind of the Saturn thesis would have been that we'll shut down all of GM and Saturn will become GM. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- ▶ 12:34 Qasar Younis Worked at General Motors for five years.
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments
- ▶ 11:44 Matt Spence And that, you know, you don't have plants like GM on the ground in Detroit.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 20:29 Steven Sinofsky But GM just could not figure out how to respond to, to the Mustang and they were in a panic.
a16z Podcast | Quantum Computing, Now and Next
- ▶ 24:21 Chad Rigetti You know, 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…
a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- ▶ 16:54 Frank Chen GM's got a really interesting product experiment in this direction. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:04 Frank Chen If GM is doing 1500 bucks a month all in, right, compare that to anytime I want to go somewhere and you'd have to do the math to sort of figure out when your breakeven point is.
a16z Podcast | Of Policy, Capital, and the Startup Ecosystem
- ▶ 14:46 Scott Cooper You have to do all kinds of filings, and 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…
a16z Podcast | Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
- ▶ 27:52 Andrew Radin Uh, self-driving cars did not come out of a GM or a Ford or an automobile company.
a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
- ▶ 20:53 Steven Sinofsky Well, there's a fascinating article, um, in Wired about GM and the battle that they're having with Tesla, and you got to give them credit for, like, really trying to do an end-to-end electric car to compete.
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 9:02 Michael Copeland Now, what it isn't, though, it isn't like GM, you know, in the finance business, financing cars. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Crisis Time -- What to Do When Things Go Sideways
- ▶ 13:49 Judy Smith Um, I think if it's something that goes in direct relationship to the core of the company, um, something like GM, uh, you would want to see the CEO out there, uh, apologizing and, and owning that and making sure that, that CEO is…
a16z Podcast | Where the Growth in Cloud and Enterprise Software Really Is (with Marc Benioff)
- ▶ 25:59 Marc Benioff And, uh, three, we run over 23,000 non-profits and NGOs for free on Salesforce, universities, et cetera, and that's been really gratifying and really fulfilling part of our, you know, business is that, um, we're not just, uh, you know,…
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 28:30 Marc Andreessen The expectation of Detroit is that 50 years from now the three big car companies will be Ford, GM, and Chrysler, right?
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 39:13 Peter Thiel Um, and so, you know, General Motors was a technology company in the 19 twenties. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Demystifying Venture Capital
- ▶ 5:43 Theresa Gao Um, so I also have an engineering undergraduate degree, um, I, uh, other than summer internships, like at General Motors and at British Petroleum, we're literally a thousand engineers in two
How 'Going Direct' Changes Everything: for Brands, Retail, Marketing, and Advertising
- ▶ 5:47 unnamed speaker Three of the top 10 advertisers in the United States are GM, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler.
16 Questions About Self Driving Cars
- ▶ 2:37 Frank Chen That is a GM car. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:38 Frank Chen We've got Baidu, Ford, Next EV, Leico, Future Mobility Corp, VM Motor, Lucid Motors, BYD, Tesla, Nissan, BMW, GM, Toyota, Mercedes.
- ▶ 20:47 Frank Chen And if we just buy transportation as a service, in other words, our brand loyalties drift to companies like Lyft and Uber, and away from companies like GM and BMW, this is a seismic shift in the industry.
- ▶ 28:51 Frank Chen 2020 GM says that's when it will have its cars.
AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
- ▶ 39:31 Frank Chen Now has a huge autonomous driving program with thousands of engineers, so GM, and Ford, and Tesla, and Google, and Toyota, and Lyft, and Uber, and Bosch, and VW, on and on.