Tesla Model 3
product on 22 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes · said 170 times in 92 episodes since 2016
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2026 42 mentions in 21 episodes 2 per episode
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- How Elon Thinks
- How Elon Musk Solves Problems | Eric Jorgenson
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2025 33 mentions in 24 episodes 1 per episode
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- How Elon Works
- How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian
- Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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- Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 40 mentions in 16 episodes 3 per episode
- What’s really happening in the U.S. EV market?
- Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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- Tesla’s extremely hardcore pivot
- Inside Apple’s failed car program
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- Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- Elon's Big Week (ep4)
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2023 17 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Doug Demuro on Analyzing the Car Industry, Creator-Led Businesses, and Porsche Follow Up (Raw Video) · Acquired
- Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
- E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
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- Can the V2X dream become reality?
- Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Powering cars with solar energy with Steve Fambro of Aptera Motors
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2022 14 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
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- Booking your first zero-emissions flight
- HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- Could Elon Musk’s risky Twitter takeover hurt Tesla?
- Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
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2021 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
- What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
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2017 11 mentions in 1 episode
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4 statements about Tesla Model 3, every show
Sam D'Amico: EV battery cell costs have dropped to $50 per kilowatt-hour
“And now we're looking at like, sell costs of like, 50 dollars a kilowatt hour for reference, like a kilowatt, like a typical Tesla model three pack is like, 60 kilowatt hours or something like that. So it's like, you end up with battery packs that could be lik…”
Sam D'Amico: Lower-end Tesla Model 3s use CATL or BYD batteries
“A number of very, very big, very, very competent companies like CTL, UID, et cetera, make the actual packs for the lower end of Tesla's Product line now. So if you get a low end model free, you're actually getting a CTL or BYD pack. You're not getting a you're…”
Sam D'Amico: Chinese EV makers offer Tesla Model 3 equivalents for $25,000
“China can offer. Like you can get a Tesla model three equivalent vehicle for like 25 K delivered and the vehicle quality is fantastic today.”
Tesla Model 3 and Nest thermostat tie as top consumer climate products
“I would say it's roughly a tie at the moment between the Tesla Model Three and the Nest thermostat, probably with the edge to the Nest thermostat, but both have objectively been big successes from a consumer adoption standpoint.”