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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…”
Sinofsky: Western automakers lost IP and capital in Chinese joint ventures
“And like, we met once with and so the car companies, if you just fast forward, they all are out of China now. These joint ventures, they could never get their money out. They lost all their IP, their manufacturer. It's just horrible to, like, Volkswagen, Ford,…”
Mónica: Failing to stake crypto tokens violates VC fiduciary duty
“Their LPs expect them to actively participate in this protocol. Imagine that you're investing in Ford, but somehow you're dropping the dividends of Ford on the floor. Or you're participating in some decision of the network. You're not actually voting on who's …”
Chen: Automakers will shift to Boeing-style B2B fleet sales
“Well, one of the big changes, especially if we're going to switch to fleet ownership, is the car manufacturers will start being a lot more like Boeing and Airbus than they will be like Ford and BMW today.”
Chen: Smartphone choice has surpassed car brand as a primary consumer identity
“It's much more important whether you own an iPhone or an Android phone and what set of apps you use than whether you drive a Ford or a BMW or whatever.”
Pope: Ford cars contain more lines of code than a Boeing 757
“Ford is already making cars that have more code in them than a seven 57.”
Sankar: Early U.S. industrial base had commercial giants building weapons
“Chrysler built cars and missiles. Ford built satellites until 1990. General Mills, the cereal company, built torpedoes.”
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 …”
Chan: Alibaba and Ford launched a facial-recognition car vending machine in 2018
“This is a car vending machine that Alibaba launched in conjunction with Ford this year. You just had to drive up to this vending machine, do a facial recognition scan, log in with your phone, and then borrow that car for three days.”