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Why Investors Are Rethinking Everything for the AI Era
- ▶ 45:34 David George Like there's fewer than 10,000 Waymos.
Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 52:19 Martin Casado We're in Waymo.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
- ▶ 5:36 Travis Kalanick Like, you see the Waymo's out there.
- ▶ 13:35 Travis Kalanick And I say, look, if you make autonomy and you make it really fast, faster than, than Waymo's making it, let's just say.
- ▶ 18:52 Travis Kalanick Ok, so the Uber and Lyft drivers are now protesting at the Waymo office.
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 15:14 Travis Kalanick Our timing program was like second to Waymo, but catching up at the time.
- ▶ 29:33 Travis Kalanick We see Waymo's cruising around already.
- ▶ 38:00 Travis Kalanick Waymo's are cruising.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 3:40 Marc Andreessen Self-driving cars, but it's kind of like, okay, there's like whatever, you know, there's, they're Tesla and Waymoor building their own self-driving cars, and then, and then there's like six or eight other car companies that matter, and…
- ▶ 11:58 Qasar Younis If you look just at the example of, of, uh, Waymo from America and Pony from China trying to deploy in, let's say, the other countries, so not America, not Europe, not China, every one of those, uh, spaces
- ▶ 28:05 Qasar Younis It's like, like, I mean, a controversial thing to say is like, I actually think crews, you know, they were certainly moving at a much faster pace than Waymo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:27 Marc Andreessen And so the Waymo cars are driving all over, you know, in the places they're deployed. 6 times in the scene
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 27:27 Marc Rowan The notion that once the world was able to solve the Waymo problem, which was a real problem, how do you take a, how do you solve a situation for self-driving in a constantly changing environment where safety is paramount and where you… 2 times in the scene
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 30:10 Balaji Srinivasan No, well, so I'm not, well, look, Waymo exists, right?
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 1:15:39 David Ulevitch Um, you know, if you've been in San Francisco, gotten into Waymo, you already know that, um, autonomy in self-driving cars is absolutely, uh, gonna be, like, the way forward.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 28:47 Keith Rabois Now, actually, Waymo would in some ways count.
Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- ▶ 46:30 Erik Torenberg I think we took a Waymo together.
Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
- ▶ 27:39 Justine Moore He actually does it, but I've generated talking Waymos a ton with you guys.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 1:04:44 Balaji Srinivasan And, uh, that is a building thing of an anti-AI, anti-crypto, anti-tech, and it's setting fire to the Waymos.
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 19:58 Marc Andreessen And if you, if you haven't tried this yet, if go to, go to, if you ever have the misfortune of finding yourself in San Francisco, uh, take a Waymo.
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 7:58 Dwarkesh Patel If you just look at the example of Waymo versus Uber, I think previously you could have had this thing about people will be hesitate to take automated rides.
Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
- ▶ 16:51 unnamed speaker Yeah, we, we should get a contingent of folks out to San Francisco to ride in some, some Waymos.
- ▶ 21:02 Qasar Younis Uh, you know, tens of hours of videos, thousands of pages of notes, and the short version of it is they've essentially found somewhere between a Tesla and a Waymo in terms of autonomy, but what you're seeing is like true innovation.
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 3:52 Qasar Younis You see Waymo's, like, literally on the block. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:57 Erin Price-Wright U.S. auto manufacturers, like, how, are they gonna look more like Waymo or more like Tesla? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:14 Qasar Younis I mean, the, the, the version of, you know, writing Waymo's in SF, if Waymo's had a huge presence here in, in DC, it would change. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:19 Erin Price-Wright Um, it's been, uh, you know, a wild 10 years or so in the world of autonomy, and we're starting to see, and we talked about Waymo, the glimmers in the consumer space.
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 4:48 Zeno Rocha Waymo, they, they couldn't build new roads. 2 times in the scene
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 35:38 Chris Dixon Um, uh, you know, on the flip side, like the stuff with Waymo is really impressive.
Jobs of the Future: Where Hardware Meets Software
- ▶ 10:23 Erin Price-Wright Andrel and Waymo and Skydio and others are pulling incredible talent still.
How Waymo Is Using GenAI to Build a Better Driver
- ▶ 0:19 Sarah Wang Our guest this episode is Dmitry Dolgov, the co-CEO of Waymo. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:42 Dmitry Dolgov And, um, that then, you know, we worked on it for a few years, and that project then became Waymo in 2016, and we've been on this path since then.
- ▶ 8:45 Dmitry Dolgov Uh, uh, very focused on that Waymo most recently is taking kind of the AI backbone and all of the AI, the Waymo AI that is, uh, over the years we've built up, uh, that is really proficient at this task of autonomous, uh, driving and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:27 David George Um, what is your interpretation of that approach and what elements of that approach have you taken and applied inside of Waymo? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:44 David George Writing in the Waymo for those who have done it is an extraordinary experience.
- ▶ 25:31 David George What you think maybe today and in the future about market structure, competition, um, and what kind of role you envision Waymo playing? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:01 Dmitry Dolgov That's our main, most mature primary application, but, you know, we envision a future where our, the Waymo driver will deploy, be deployed in other commercial applications, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:56 Dmitry Dolgov You can download the Waymo app and, you know, take a ride, and our vehicle will show up and take it where we want to go. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:48 Dmitry Dolgov So it's been a long journey, but it's, uh, you know, for me and, uh, many people at Waymo, it is super exciting and very, very rewarding to finally see it become reality. 2 times in the scene
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 55:46 Ben Horowitz So, um, examples being like, so Waymo like sells an AI driver that, that, that is basically the product that's an AI driver. 2 times in the scene
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 1:03:40 Marc Andreessen Um, well, and another example of this is, I, I don't know this to be, Ben, you know this to be a fact, but I think for, like, Waymo, for, like, the Waymo self-driving cars, I think there's a human supervisor who can take over.
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,… 3 times in the scene
Are Autonomous Vehicles Finally Here? Buckle up!
- ▶ 0:38 unnamed speaker Today, I got to ride fully autonomously with Waymo's chief product officer, Saswat Hanigrahi, who's actually been on this journey since 2016.
- ▶ 14:52 unnamed speaker How has Waymo thought about that decision of what, you know, some people pose it as expensive hardware, more simple software, because you have so much fidelity from LiDAR. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:42 unnamed speaker so talking about the technology, um, I want to talk about safety next, but first, are there any important technological unlocks that you still see on the horizon that, not just Waymo, but the, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:34 Saswat Panigrahi Uh, you know, um, machine learning investments that Waymo and Google did 12 years ago, 13 years ago, is beginning to pay off in a manner that's, uh, pretty hard to, you know, just, uh, get there.
- ▶ 29:20 Saswat Panigrahi And, and I think being truthful about your capabilities is really, really important, and what Waymo has tried to do.
- ▶ 31:27 Saswat Panigrahi There, one thing we did is we took every fatal crash that had occurred and re-simulated and showed that Wemo could avoid that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:54 Saswat Panigrahi The reason we exist is to make driving safer. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:50 Saswat Panigrahi It's almost like internal debates at Waymo. 2 times in the scene
How to Raise Money from a Venture Investor
- ▶ 3:22 Scott Cooper You may remember this whole case that happened with Uber and the company called Waymo, right, where, you know, kind of Waymo was part of Google, and then, you know, a number of people left. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 2:10 Sonal Chokshi I mean, didn't like Uber like suck or Waymo suck up the entire CMU robotics department at one point?
- ▶ 12:34 Peter Ludwig So for example, the, uh, the Waymo pilot in, in Arizona, that's a level four system where there's fully autonomous vehicles, but only within a certain geographic region.
- ▶ 16:41 Sonal Chokshi I mean, yeah, Google's cars could be a little kawaii-like and cutesy, and Waymo's and all the other ones have different looks and feels, but overall they could look like cars.
- ▶ 32:35 Qasar Younis Chauffeur, which was, which became Waymo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:18 Qasar Younis Uh, the German government won't just let Waymo come take over Germany, uh, and let Daimler and BMW go under business, and the same thing is true for Hyundai in Korea, Honda and Toyota in Japan, and the Chinese companies, because there's a…
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 49:22 Marc Andreessen A lot more money behind it, and I think that, you know, the self-driving car, the Waymo project is as glorious a success as anything that ever came out of
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 35:29 Benedict Evans So you've got Waymo building their own LiDAR, building their own camera systems, building their own databases, building their own mapping systems, and their own simulation tools.
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
- ▶ 20:58 Chris Dixon But now you look at the salaries of companies like Google, some of this came out in like the court documents of what they were paying, like the Waymo engineers, and it's like, you know, it's like the price of an annual price of a startup…
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
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- ▶ 22:31 Evangelos Simudis I would imagine the Google car, uh, is, uh, similar, uh, if not
a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
- ▶ 27:39 John Markoff I mean, his vision was the Google car drives up to your house and the Google robot hops off the back bumper and runs the package up to your
The Autonomy Ecosystem: Energy (4 of 8)
- ▶ 8:14 Frank Chen So for instance, AutoNation has an agreement with Waymo to service their self-driving cars at a bunch of the AutoNation locations around the country.