Tesla, every mention
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E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 1:16:35 Elon Musk Um, and hopefully in that we'll, we can include, um, information about why an account is suspended or, uh, has, uh, what is, uh, called within Tesla to Twitter, uh, visibility filtering, uh, AKA shadow banning. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:51:36 Chamath Palihapitiya There was a decent little tweet thread that Elon was a part of where he, they actually calculated what the expected rate of return of Tesla was, and it turned out to be almost 14% a year.
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 6:10 Chamath Palihapitiya We saw yesterday that he had to sell another 3.8 billion dollars of Tesla stock. 3 times in the scene
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 1:37:32 Jason Calacanis Uber and Tesla have all this data of the data being collected by, you know, the, uh, phones or the cameras in the cars.
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
- ▶ 5:48 Jason Calacanis Karpathy was the head of, uh, autopilot at Tesla, right?
- ▶ 5:48 Jason Calacanis Karpathy was the head of, uh, autopilot at Tesla, right? 2 times in the scene
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 12:57 David Sacks And like, and likewise with Tesla, he started with the mission of moving the world to sustainable energy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 Chamath Palihapitiya Tesla in its entire life spent twenty five billion to get free cash flow profitability, and they took this incremental approach as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:45 Chamath Palihapitiya We'll create the, you know, the, the coop, uh, the Roadster, then the Model S, then the Model X.
- ▶ 36:45 Chamath Palihapitiya We'll create the, you know, the, the coop, uh, the Roadster, then the Model S, then the Model X.
- ▶ 36:45 Chamath Palihapitiya We'll create the, you know, the, the coop, uh, the Roadster, then the Model S, then the Model X.
- ▶ 42:27 Chamath Palihapitiya I think the Tesla program got right.
- ▶ 47:20 Jason Calacanis Tesla doesn't have super shares either, and he said it many times, if you want to vote me out, you can vote me out.
- ▶ 54:25 Chamath Palihapitiya But the way that you make a bet, and you've said this well, is you have to look at incremental progress, and you have to demonstrate that all of these bets make sense, because the problem is when you get compared to the Tesla program,… 2 times in the scene
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 31:49 Chamath Palihapitiya I'll go buy more Tesla where it's one person, one vote. 2 times in the scene
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
- ▶ 28:42 Jason Calacanis Speaking of Elon, uh, Tesla AI Day was last week.
- ▶ 30:10 Jason Calacanis Elon only spoke when he showed the optimist the new robot.
- ▶ 30:45 Jason Calacanis Um, the most interesting part for me was, uh, they're building their own supercomputer, uh, and their chips, and the Dojo supercomputer was really impressive, um, at how much they can get through, uh, scenarios.
- ▶ 31:02 Jason Calacanis I actually have the full self driving beta on my car.
- ▶ 44:44 Chamath Palihapitiya But we have to get there if we're going to have real full self-driving.
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 15:58 Chamath Palihapitiya Atlassian, Tesla, Uber, Google, Airbnb, Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, incredible businesses that have created tremendous value.
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 35:32 Jason Calacanis And you can see it also with Cybertruck, and you know, what Elon's doing with AI, and these things are getting so close.
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 47:32 David Friedberg That is more profit than Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Tesla combined in a single quarter.
E90: Twitter subpoenas, market overview, Pelosi's Taiwan visit & more
- ▶ 47:33 Chamath Palihapitiya So CATL, which is Tesla's biggest battery supplier, basically, you know, delayed the announcement of a, of a factory.
E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
- ▶ 44:03 Jason Calacanis And I do know that those incentives did work in the early days of Tesla, because when you went to the website, you would look at the price and, you know, this would be 10% off of a new car.
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 13:15 Jason Calacanis With Solandra, Solyndra, which didn't work out, but he also did it with Tesla, and Tesla paid all that money back early. 2 times in the scene
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 1:00:32 David Friedberg I mean, when Elon got that massive grant at Tesla, the stock based comp expense was significant.
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 1:25:17 Chamath Palihapitiya By the way, just speaking of speaking of China for a second, you know, we talk and we, we bloviate about our desire for energy independence and, you know, we exclude Tesla from, you know, any sort of major meaningful legislation.
- ▶ 1:32:03 Jason Calacanis It's just a luxury every mile after that, given how fast superchargers are working.
#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 0:18 Jason Calacanis Antonio, uh, Elon had a moment of reflection, and, uh, he was talking about 2000, and he was talking about the, uh, imminent, um, collapse, as he felt it, of SpaceX and Tesla at the same time in December 25th, and he said, ah, there were…
- ▶ 3:40 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, you really doubled down, because you didn't just do Tesla, you also 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:37 Antonio Gracias So look, I, we were the first institutional investors at Tesla Motors. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:33 Antonio Gracias We found in, in cases like Tesla where we actually helped. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:22 David Friedberg And, and by the way, you should talk about, uh, automation at, I don't know if you want to, but Tesla, yeah. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:26 Antonio Gracias I, I, look, I, we at Tesla took over the, this Fremont factory was a former GM Toyota factory,
- ▶ 1:21:32 Chamath Palihapitiya He's a minority guy, grew up in Houston, um, really wanted to work at Tesla, couldn't get a job, couldn't get a job, couldn't get a job, finally got a job on the line, he was making 16, 20 bucks an hour, worked there, did well,… 2 times in the scene
#AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education
- ▶ 19:14 Joe Lonsdale It's about 15 minutes from the Tesla, giant Tesla plant, about 30 minutes from downtown.
- ▶ 19:14 Joe Lonsdale It's about 15 minutes from the Tesla, giant Tesla plant, about 30 minutes from downtown.
#AIS: MP Materials CEO James Litinsky on rare earths, supply chain, and energy independence
- ▶ 12:48 Chamath Palihapitiya Tesla and their quarterly earnings said something to the effect of, um, you know, we're going to consider becoming a mining company as well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:15 Chamath Palihapitiya Which would be enough to basically feed Tesla and another OEM, okay?
#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders
- ▶ 7:54 Mar Hershenson You all know that they started many successful companies, Tesla, LinkedIn, Palantir, Affirm.
#AIS: FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver on how gamblers think
- ▶ 0:35 unnamed speaker Model Y, Model S Plaid.
Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
- ▶ 11:44 Jason Calacanis And Biden can't even say the word Tesla or invite you to the White House when they do an EV summit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:26 Chamath Palihapitiya Elon, I have a, I have a Tesla question. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:27 Elon Musk Um, then, uh, Tesla also has by far the biggest network of superchargers, sort of the electric equivalent of gas stations. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:06 Elon Musk And then very importantly, uh, Tesla has built, uh, an, uh, an autopilot AI team from scratch. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:34 Elon Musk Um, and if that faith is undermined or, or reduced because of the reality of the situation coming to the fore, then the, the, the Tesla's revenue, or Twitter, sorry, sorry to the T, um, Twitter's revenue, uh, will be, uh, significantly…
- ▶ 31:09 Elon Musk You know, in, in the case of, of Tesla, uh, you know, it was like five people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:38 Jason Calacanis We were having a conversation about the Roadster. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:09 Elon Musk I got involved when Twitter, when Tesla was nothing but a piece of paper. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:40 Jason Calacanis Tell us, tell us actually, uh, it was a, it was a pretty crazy moment in time, because I also remember asking you, we were having dinner at Boa, and I said, well, certainly it's got to be some good news, and you took out your Blackberry to…
- ▶ 38:34 Elon Musk So like, right, you know, both SpaceX and Tesla have, um, you know, significant cash reserves.
- ▶ 47:11 David Friedberg I was going to chip, but, um, you know, when you think about the importance of going to Mars versus solving critical energy and climate change problems here on earth, obviously the effort with Tesla is related to sustainable energy.
- ▶ 56:53 Jason Calacanis Um, but how has building the Tesla, um, Gigafactory, which I got to see in Austin a couple of weeks ago, and it was one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:53 Jason Calacanis Um, but how has building the Tesla, um, Gigafactory, which I got to see in Austin a couple of weeks ago, and it was one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:16 Jason Calacanis Well, I mean, you wanted to do this for the Model Three, but it was just too soon, huh? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:30 Elon Musk It's a, it's a, it's a huge end of the, like the Model Y body shop, especially the new one where we cast both the front and rear is 60% smaller than the Model three body shop.
- ▶ 1:22:27 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, you know, Tesla is competitive, but Tesla is competitive because we have an awesome team in China that, uh, you know, so, um, Like do your Tesla China employees work some meaningful percentage more or harder than your Tesla non-China… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:27 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, you know, Tesla is competitive, but Tesla is competitive because we have an awesome team in China that, uh, you know, so, um, Like do your Tesla China employees work some meaningful percentage more or harder than your Tesla non-China… 2 times in the scene
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 23:53 Chamath Palihapitiya This was the, you know, when Elon had convertible debt on Tesla, that was, you know, one big escape velocity moment for me in my career in 2016.
E78: VC fund metrics that matter, private market update, recession, student loans, Bill Hwang arrest
- ▶ 40:42 Chamath Palihapitiya So, you know, the Googles, the Microsofts, the Apples, and the Teslas.
E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 21:53 David Sacks Elon has a company that is accelerating the world towards sustainable transport.
E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- ▶ 15:42 Jason Calacanis We happened to drive it because we had a number of people that was bigger than the X, and
E76: Elon vs. Twitter
- ▶ 34:34 Jason Calacanis How about long Tesla short Twitter?
- ▶ 41:37 David Sacks You know, that my understanding of the way that things work at Tesla and SpaceX is he's got some terrific young talent who he appoints to these sort of project manager or product manager positions.
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 13:05 Chamath Palihapitiya And mostly it's because, you know, if you look inside the S and P 540% of every dollar is, you know, Apple, Amazon, you know, Microsoft, et cetera, Tesla.
- ▶ 45:14 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that if he is able to make free speech cool again, he'll, he'll actually do more doing that than potentially through SpaceX and Tesla, and that's already saying a lot.
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 13:08 Chamath Palihapitiya Apple and Tesla basically said, ah, it's kind of reasonably well managed, particularly on the chip side, and we see the whole thing easing Q four, Q one of next year. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:28 Jason Calacanis But putting a bunch of chips on a plane versus putting them in a container, given how much those chips are valued by a Tesla, whoever's putting them into, you know, a car, um, isn't, what was the breaking point?
- ▶ 24:16 Jason Calacanis Like, I mean, he wouldn't even say the word Tesla over there.
- ▶ 32:43 David Sacks Well, if you listen to Elon talk about unions and why Tesla is not a union shop, it's got nothing to do with wages. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:33 Jason Calacanis And our government should be taking notes and really the other leaders who are importing, whether it's Apple or Tesla, you know, it'd be great for all of them to be supporting you.
E65: VC markup dynamics, Russia/US tensions over Ukraine, Altos Labs raises $3B, Stripe mafia & more
- ▶ 39:21 Jason Calacanis He's buying a ton of, uh, Netflix and Tesla just absolutely flipped to becoming a money printing machine, uh, and had a ridiculous quarter revenues up 53 to fifty three billion up 71% year over year. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Because the cost of Apple and Tesla specifically guiding to that is too enormous.
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 39:46 Jason Calacanis They didn't give Tesla the same. 3 times in the scene
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 19:52 Chamath Palihapitiya So Apple and and Tesla.