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AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 40:28 Ben Horowitz Cause it kind of goes through a lot of the crises he ran into in both SpaceX and Tesla.
- ▶ 48:25 Ben Horowitz But if the thing is kind of genuinely working and they hit one of these incidents, which hardware companies always hit, I mean, like you seem like Tesla who had to go back to its like existing investors, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:09 Marc Andreessen But, but Elon, to your point, Elon has declared, I think, that the future of Tesla is that, he's building robo taxis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:06 Marc Andreessen Nag asks, if data is the only thing that matters, which we don't say, but the premise of the question, um, then why aren't we seeing more AI agents or robotics companies going at end to end ML like Tesla? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:16 Marc Andreessen And, and the reference there is Tesla, every Tesla car, whether you have the autopilot turned on or not, it is gathering sensor data from the cameras that is being brought back to Tesla HQ and used to train the, the Tesla full drive, uh,…
- ▶ 1:01:16 Marc Andreessen And, and the reference there is Tesla, every Tesla car, whether you have the autopilot turned on or not, it is gathering sensor data from the cameras that is being brought back to Tesla HQ and used to train the, the Tesla full drive, uh,…
- ▶ 1:02:46 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, it's not been like the, a big breakthrough where, like, all of the sudden you can have, um, you know, basically robots walk in and substitute for humans, like, you know, the Optimus Prime thing that, that Tesla's building,…
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 54:33 Marc Andreessen Um, that put up a customer service bot and, uh, within a few days it discovered the bot was, uh, was, uh, trying to convince, uh, potential customers to buy Teslas. 2 times in the scene
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 1:10:20 Ben Horowitz You know, it's the difference between, like, um, Tucker, DeLorean, um, and Tesla, right?
Big Ideas 2024: A New Age of Maritime Exploration with Grant Gregory
- ▶ 8:35 Grant Gregory Uh, and equally, we're seeing people from a lot of the other American dynamism companies like SpaceX, Tesla, and Andrel, they're taking their learnings and experiences and bringing them over to the ocean.
- ▶ 10:29 Grant Gregory Of some of the advances you can see on whether it's machine vision, robotics, autonomy, um, other capabilities like arc boats has done a great job of encapsulating what the future of maritime looks like in that, you know, from a process…
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 9:02 Marc Andreessen Yeah, Elon, um, so even for people who don't know the history, when, when Elon started Tesla, the, the market for electric cars was so small, was viewed as so small by everybody at the time, except for, except for Elon and his, his…
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 20:55 Marc Andreessen And so, yeah, so, so basically Tesla and, and, and Waymo is, these are great examples, and these are very topical, because, because Waymo finally just got, you know, approval to roll out, you know, full robo taxi service in San Francisco,… 4 times in the scene
Where We Go From Here with OpenAI's Mira Murati
- ▶ 2:07 Mira Murati As an engineer and, uh, then joined Tesla shortly after, where I spent a few years initially, I joined to work on Model S dual motor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07 Mira Murati As an engineer and, uh, then joined Tesla shortly after, where I spent a few years initially, I joined to work on Model S dual motor.
- ▶ 2:18 Mira Murati Um, and then I went on to Model X from the early days of the initial design and eventually led the whole program, um, to, to launch.
- ▶ 2:36 Mira Murati Specifically with autopilot. 2 times in the scene
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 8:41 Ben Horowitz Largely by the founders of the companies at that time, you know, it was the, the early days of the industrial revolution, which, um, you know, many of the kind of big manufacturers these days, you know, with the exception of, you know,…
Are Autonomous Vehicles Finally Here? Buckle up!
- ▶ 14:45 unnamed speaker Um, but first, I feel like, you know, the one, the rivalry in self-driving is LiDAR versus, you know, Tesla Vision or the video processing.
The Electrification of Everything: From Sky to Sea
- ▶ 6:15 Duncan McIntyre And so you have to get into the local side of it to win, but more than anything, I think, you know, Tesla inspired us all to look at the EV as a, as technology that's here now.
- ▶ 13:48 Mitch Lee Two battery packs totaling 220 kilowatt hours of battery capacity, which for reference is well over twice the size of any car that you'd find on, on the market today, like a Model S or Model X.
- ▶ 13:48 Mitch Lee Two battery packs totaling 220 kilowatt hours of battery capacity, which for reference is well over twice the size of any car that you'd find on, on the market today, like a Model S or Model X.
- ▶ 26:33 Steph Smith I mean, on that note, I'd love to hear from all three of you and Greg, you've already touched on it for aviation, but I think when people consider electric vehicles, let's just use Tesla as an example, they think, okay, most of the revenue… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:48 Mitch Lee We have top talent from SpaceX and Tesla and Rivian and other EV companies and marine companies. 2 times in the scene
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 1:02:41 Marc Andreessen Um, and so the, the, the, the example that I gave was, was, was, uh, was, uh, Elon Musk's famous secret plan for Tesla, um, which he, you know, it's a secret plan in quotes because he published it on his Tesla website in 2006. 4 times in the scene
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 3:51 Peter Diamandis Both of us were involved in the starting of Singularity University and started studying all of these companies and why was Uber, Airbnb, different elements of, of, of Google and Tesla.
- ▶ 39:14 Salim Ismail It's like the difference between a traditional car and a Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:49 Peter Diamandis You know, people might know about Optimus, uh, out of, out of Tesla or figure they are coming, um, and they're going to become a massive workforce.
- ▶ 48:49 Peter Diamandis You know, people might know about Optimus, uh, out of, out of Tesla or figure they are coming, um, and they're going to become a massive workforce.
- ▶ 54:58 Salim Ismail And I think what's really powerful about today is when we were having this conversation, when we first put this model, Tesla was nowhere, uh, Uber and Airbnb were just kind of getting started, et cetera, et cetera.
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
- ▶ 17:33 Carl Pei And I think a lot about Tesla, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:28 unnamed speaker Yeah, I was actually months ago walking down the street, and I saw a bunch of Teslas, and I had the same thought, the same way that like a music artist when they're driving a car, and they hear their song on the radio, and it's like, it's…
AI & The Future of Modern Warfare
- ▶ 15:41 Brian Schimpf Take a Tesla, take any of these companies that are building, you know, kind of modern hardware, software enabled systems.
Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
- ▶ 41:38 Marc Andreessen Like, you know, Tesla's the company I'm alluding to. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:41 Vijay Pande Or like the person on a bike that got hit by a Tesla or something like that. 2 times in the scene
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 45:45 Olaf Carlson-Wee It allows people to say, okay, I'm going to share the data from my Tesla or my smartphone with a major corporation and get paid for that data.
3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
- ▶ 46:35 Alex Rampell And the joke that I would always make is like, if Amtrak buys Tesla, the worst thing that Amtrak could do, because Amtrak is probably more profitable than Tesla at this point. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 9:49 Sonal Chokshi And so Elon Musk will make a claim about Tesla's and people will say, well, they can't handle all these edge cases, et cetera.
- ▶ 10:43 Peter Ludwig So for example, the Tesla autopilot system is a, is a level two system.
- ▶ 18:57 Qasar Younis Now, whether those are ride sharing companies, AV providers, or the continue to be the BMW or the Teslas, uh, I think that that's, that's up for debate.
- ▶ 29:40 Sonal Chokshi Well, this begs a question, and Benedict often asks a similar question in his post on autonomy a lot, which is, you know, will Tesla become more like Detroit
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 18:56 Frank Chen So it turns out Tesla just turned on this feature in their cars where the drivers can now get access to the video that their Tesla's cameras are seeing. 4 times in the scene
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 17:58 Frank Chen Uh, experts in their fields, and I think part of the reason he went top down is sort of the same reason that Elon Musk went to the, um, the Roadster first, and then the X, and then the, or the S, and then the X, and then the three, right?
- ▶ 17:58 Frank Chen Uh, experts in their fields, and I think part of the reason he went top down is sort of the same reason that Elon Musk went to the, um, the Roadster first, and then the X, and then the, or the S, and then the X, and then the three, right?
- ▶ 17:58 Frank Chen Uh, experts in their fields, and I think part of the reason he went top down is sort of the same reason that Elon Musk went to the, um, the Roadster first, and then the X, and then the, or the S, and then the X, and then the three, right?
- ▶ 17:58 Frank Chen Uh, experts in their fields, and I think part of the reason he went top down is sort of the same reason that Elon Musk went to the, um, the Roadster first, and then the X, and then the, or the S, and then the X, and then the three, right?
a16z Podcast | Automation + Work, Human + Machine
- ▶ 5:21 unnamed speaker Like at Tesla, the labeling software is, it almost looks like Photoshop.
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 7:04 Fred Wilson Yeah, I mean, even, even, you know, the greatest thing about Tesla is the over-the-air software upgrade. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 0:03 Sonal Chokshi In another of our hallway conversation episodes, Benedict Evans and Steven Sanofsky talk about Tesla and more broadly the nature of disruption overall. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:30 Steven Sinofsky Uh, what we thought we would talk about today is a little bit about, um, the nature of disruption and in particular about, about Tesla and the rise of electric vehicles and sort of how disruptive is Tesla? 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:48 Benedict Evans Yeah, lithium-ion batteries are not something that got invented by, by Tesla and Panasonic five years ago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:10 Benedict Evans Um, and so, I mean, kind of a great kind of vignette of this is Tesla discovered the Model three had a problem with the brake. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:10 Benedict Evans Um, and so, I mean, kind of a great kind of vignette of this is Tesla discovered the Model three had a problem with the brake.
- ▶ 22:23 Benedict Evans Does this produce, does Tesla's approach produce a better car or does it produce a different car? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:40 Benedict Evans I mean, I did a totally unscientific Twitter poll, and my question was, if BMW and Tesla, and BMW, Mercedes, Tesla, are all selling a car with exactly the same, same drivetrain, um, like the same acceleration, the same electric, everything… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:20 Benedict Evans Yeah, and I think, I hear that, think about this when I see Tesla making their own this, or making their own that, and you think, okay, set aside the fact that you have a major cash flow problem, and why are you spending money to do this… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:37 Steven Sinofsky And, and that's where, like, so much of this becomes very, very interesting because ultimately, like, your framework for thinking about Tesla just, it, it really raises so many very interesting questions.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 15:08 Chris Dixon So throughout our lives, we drive around, we're creating AI data, and like, that's what companies like Google and Tesla and things are trying to capture, is that data to get better and better in their algorithms.
a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- ▶ 4:00 Marc Andreessen But, you know, they got all the screens and the this and the that and the dash and the Tesla and the whole thing.
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- ▶ 0:50 Qasar Younis And I think when the CT-Six launches with Super Cruise or the Tesla Autopilot, and then maybe 10 years from now we'll wake up and you have that option to go to the dealership and buy a car that does everything we think autonomy does.
- ▶ 4:39 Qasar Younis I think the real bloodbath in this ecosystem is not going to be at the manufacturer's level because consumers have some affiliation to, like, a Tesla vehicle or, like, a Mercedes-Benz, etc.
a16z Podcast | A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure
- ▶ 7:20 Jace Wilson A hundred households get together and say, we're going to borrow five million bucks and put together a bank of Tesla power packs and, you know, do distributed energy at our, at our neighborhood.
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
- ▶ 6:24 Sonal Chokshi Where does like a Tesla fit? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
- ▶ 2:28 James Beshara You know, the most recent big splash of example would probably be Tesla about four months ago. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:07 Sonal Chokshi When you look at that famous drawing that Elon Musk had about his vision for the future of Tesla and starting, it's almost like, you know, you've seen those drawings of the evolution of man to like from monkey to man standing up. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:58 James Beshara What Tesla more or less has done is, as that number gets to a 100,000, a 150,200 thousand. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:10 James Beshara Tesla, yes, they had a brand, but I think we could all agree that the last four months, it's kind of entered into a very new territory. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:19 Sonal Chokshi I mean, we talked about examples like Tesla and Xiaomi, but do you see like Best Buy? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
- ▶ 17:52 Keller Rinaudo Yeah, and we actually use the exact same cell that goes into the Tesla Model S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:52 Keller Rinaudo Yeah, and we actually use the exact same cell that goes into the Tesla Model S.
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 18:28 Marc Andreessen We'll grudgingly concede that PCs were probably good, but, you know, this whole Snapchat, Tesla, Uber, like, I don't know.
a16z Podcast | Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options
- ▶ 9:16 Scott Cooper The other one that I think is also interesting is Tesla, which goes less to vesting, but more towards how you think about sizing option grants based on seniority and tenure of employees. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:23 Ben Horowitz You do get into a weird thing for potential employees and recruiting, so I think we might do a disservice to the industry by doing that, but there might need to be, say, four or five standard flavors depending on, you know, how you think… 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Humanity Meets A.I.
- ▶ 18:43 Frank Chen Your colleague, Andrew Ng, who used to be at Stanford and now runs the AI lab at Baidu, has called Tesla's autopilot system irresponsible because it got into a crash, because there are well-known scenarios basically where the system… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:43 Frank Chen Your colleague, Andrew Ng, who used to be at Stanford and now runs the AI lab at Baidu, has called Tesla's autopilot system irresponsible because it got into a crash, because there are well-known scenarios basically where the system… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
- ▶ 8:23 Arun Sundararajan Buy a Tesla, use it when I want to use it, and then rent it out on a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace when I'm not using it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:05 Sonal Chokshi Okay, so I do want to go back to the point you mentioned about the democratization of opportunity, and the reality is that I have not yet to be in a Lyft or an Uber where someone is actually taking their Tesla out on the road, and so I…
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 26:59 Kyle Russell Well, I mean, to take that to maybe a more relatable example, the best drivers on the road today, besides maybe someone with a Tesla, would be everyone who has Waze open on their phone.
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 11:28 Marc Andreessen People talk about Elon Musk, and, you know, SpaceX is still private, but Tesla's a public company, so Elon Musk puts out this thing, the Tesla Model Three, the pre-orders, and he gets half a million pre-orders, and all of a sudden, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:28 Marc Andreessen People talk about Elon Musk, and, you know, SpaceX is still private, but Tesla's a public company, so Elon Musk puts out this thing, the Tesla Model Three, the pre-orders, and he gets half a million pre-orders, and all of a sudden,
- ▶ 37:01 Marc Andreessen I think that, uh, Elon gets tremendous credit both for the car company and the rocket ship company, both of which are things that nobody 10 years ago thought was possible to build either kind of thing as a new company, and it turns out… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 15:49 Evan Burfield Tesla, you look at all of these tremendous, tremendous leveraging of what we would call regulatory hacking.
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 | Using Social Tools to Build Homes for Those Most in Need
- ▶ 21:02 Michael Copeland Do you guys ever run into, so for example, in the auto industry, Tesla comes in and like, look, we're going to show Detroit how to make cars and Detroit's like, yeah, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
- ▶ 3:45 Azim Azhar So one of the areas I think is interesting is, um, what's happening with Tesla and the Tesla cars that learn from the road, but they all learn from each other.
a16z Podcast | When Software Eats Cars
- ▶ 0:58 Benedict Evans Well, what brought it to mind is that Apple and Google are getting into the car business, and Tesla is in the car business as a technology company, and Uber is in the car business as well, and obviously we have an investment in Lyft as… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59 Michael Copeland Well, let's take those in turn then and, uh, start with the electric car and how that's a, uh, sort of lends itself to technology and technology play a la Tesla and others. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:37 Benedict Evans And so just as Tesla, as, as, as electric cars are not just about pollution, self-driving cars, I think, are not just about accidents.
- ▶ 8:14 Benedict Evans So, um, and so that becomes interesting for Apple and potentially for Tesla, because it means that, you know, if the drivers, if the people riding around are not the people choosing these things, then maybe Apple's strengths, um, don't…
- ▶ 9:10 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, right now when you look at a Tesla, you wouldn't, you wouldn't be able to tell that it doesn't got a petrol engine inside it, if you didn't know.
- ▶ 17:52 Benedict Evans Well, you know, someone posted a picture of, um, their Tesla dashboard saying, do you want to upgrade to ludicrous speed for 10,000 dollars, which is kind of quite a chunky in-app purchase.
- ▶ 20:05 Michael Copeland Hiring Tesla engineers, etc. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:34 Michael Copeland Well, I look forward to the day, honestly, as a person who drives an electric car, not a Tesla, a Fiat, um, you know, I'm looking for battery technology to get better, I'm looking for the software to get a hell of a lot better, and Lord…
a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
- ▶ 8:15 Benedict Evans Anybody at all buy a BMW or an Audi or a Lexus or Tesla.
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 30:46 Peter Thiel and so I think, I think certainly when Elon, um, went on to start Tesla and SpaceX, um, in sort of, oh, two, oh, three, oh, four timeframe, um, you know, with respect to both companies, I think the conventional wisdom was that they were… 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One”
- ▶ 7:20 Chris Dixon And I, I, I'm not, I have no connection to the Elon Musk companies, but I've heard the similar things happened at SpaceX and Tesla.
a16z Podcast | The Rise of Full Stack Startups
- ▶ 1:27 Chris Dixon You know, Tesla building a full car versus a lot of companies before that tried to just build electric batteries and sell them.
- ▶ 7:06 Chris Dixon But some of these things like the, like Tesla to versus A-one, two, three batteries or something like, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:26 Balaji Srinivasan Like, you know, even starting with, I'm sure, you know, I didn't see Tesla's, you know, roadmap and so on and so forth, but I'm sure that there was staging where they said, okay, first, let's prove out superchargers in California.