JoeBen Bevirt
Founder & CEO, Joby Aviation. On 2 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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JoeBen Bevirt is the founder and CEO of Joby Aviation, an aerospace company developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. He previously co-founded laboratory robotics company Velocity11 and founded Joby Inc., which created the GorillaPod camera tripod.
2shows
4appearances
64statements
32resolved
24supported
1contradicted
75%fully supported
Everything JoeBen Bevirt said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Bevirt: Hydrogen will redefine every class of commercial and military aircraft
“I think that over time hydrogen propulsion will redefine every class of aircraft that's flown today, both on you know, on the commercial side and for defense applications.”
Bevirt: Joby's chief aerodynamicist is 10x faster using AI
“He's now able to build in an afternoon
What would have previously taken him weeks or months?
he's like, I'm 10 X per 10 X as productive as I was just a few months ago.”
Bevirt: Joby's research team designed aircraft 10x better than current planes
“These are the folks that have a book of a dozen new aircraft designs that not just are like, 10% better than aircraft that we have today, but, you know, five and 10 times better.”
Bevirt: Hydrogen Will Over Time Redefine Every Class of Aircraft
“I think that over time hydrogen propulsion will redefine every class of aircraft that's flown today, both on you know, on the commercial side, and for defense applications.”
Bevirt: Chinese aerospace facilities are scaling for thousands of aircraft yearly
“A few weeks ago, I was in China, and I saw firsthand how fast they're moving... They are, in China, I saw production facilities that are scaling for thousands of aircraft per year.”
Bevirt: Struggling US Aerospace Competitors Are "Lashing Out" Instead of Innovating
“There are some companies in this country that are doing incredible engineering and that are actually moving the ball forward. There are others who maybe are struggling and so maybe I'll leave it at that.”
China will iterate on eVTOLs faster due to forward-leaning regulations
“The regulatory pathway there is more forward-leaning, I think, as Adam pointed out. And I think you're gonna see more, more rapid iteration, iteration.”
Bevirt: Joby and FAA agreed on every detail of aircraft design
“This is a moment we've been working for more than a decade to get to the point where we have designs where we've agreed with the FAA on every detail of the design.”
Bevirt: AI Lets Joby Aerodynamicists Compress Months of Work Into Afternoons
“He's now able to build in an afternoon what would have previously taken him weeks or months.”
Bevirt: In the age of AI, the physical world is the slowest link
“I think in the age of AI, the physical world is the slowest link.”
Bevirt: Air Travel Costs an Order of Magnitude Less Than Driving
“So air travel today is our lowest cost, highest speed, and safest mode of transport. So it's hundreds of times safer or even thousands of times safer than driving. It is you know, more than 10 times faster, and it's on the order of an order of magnitude less e…”
Bevirt: Battery density reached 300 Wh/kg with 1,000 Wh/kg prototypes coming
“So at that point in time, we were 40 to 50 watt hours a kilogram. Now we're more than 300 watt hours a kilogram, and there's cells in the lab that are up to 500 watt hours a kilogram, and prototypes coming that are over a thousand watt hours.”
Bevirt: Joby targets launch pricing comparable to an Uber Black ride
“So as we launched the service, we want this to be comparable in place to taking an Uber black. And then as we drive that manufacturing scale and get to Hundreds and then thousands and then tens of thousands of aircraft per year and really, you know, leveraging…”
Bevirt: Joby was the first company to complete FAA certification stages 1-3
“So we were the first company to achieve stage Complete the stage one of the certification basis. The first complete stage two, first complete stage three, and now not only Joby, but the FAA is making record progress on stage four.”
Bevirt: Joby secured an initial $1B tranche for Saudi Arabian commercialization
“LJ is really our dream partner as we look to explore the opportunities in, in Saudi, and couldn't be more pleased with this initial tranche of a billion dollars for the commercialization in in Saudi.”
Bevirt: China certified eVTOL aircraft and ordered hundreds for its economy
“You see countries like China, where the CAC, which is the Chinese equivalent of the FAA, is very forward-leaning, and they're already have companies in this sector that are certified, and then you have the Chinese government, which is buying hundreds of these …”
Joby Aviation achieved aircraft noise under 45 decibels in overflight
“We want to be below 45 decibels in over flight. And we've achieved both of those goals.”
Bevirt: Joby will launch commercial service in UAE in 2025
“So I think we're on a timeline which we publicly announced to begin commercial service. In the UAE next year.”
Bevirt: eVTOL aircraft can compress two-hour commutes to ten minutes
“It's you know, being able to take a trip that, that, you know, takes you half an hour on the ground and turn into a five or 10 minute trip, you know, and sometimes, sometimes you're replacing a two hour trip because you've got traffic.”
Bevirt: Joby flew a hydrogen-electric VTOL aircraft over 500 miles
“We flew a hydrogen electric version of our VTOL aircraft more than 500 miles”
Bevirt: Hydrogen fuel cells yield a 6x efficiency gain over jet fuel
“Three times lighter the hydrogen is three times lighter than jet fuel. And then we can convert it into propulsion twice as efficiently. So you get a six X gain.”
Joby Invests to Ramp Production to Two to Four Aircraft Monthly
“We've made capital investments to ramp from one to two aircraft a month, and now two to four aircraft a month.”
Bevirt: Helicopters Have Hundreds of Single Points of Failure
“Instead of a helicopter with, ah, hundreds of single points of failure on the rotor and the tail rotor.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens JoeBen's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Joby Aviation | 3 | 54 | 79% 22/28 | full record on American Optimist → |
 ALL-INLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Joby Aviation | 1 | 10 | 50% 2/4 | full record on All-In → |