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Palantir CTO: We Need More Heretics · Joe Lonsdale May 8, 2026 · 1 mention

How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale Mar 27, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:51 Joe Lonsdale Russell, I think you started your career at Tesla as an ML engineer.
  • ▶ 6:55 Russell Kaplan You know, when I was at, uh, autopilot, uh, I was a machine learning scientist working on the sort of the vision neural network, and Elon had this phrase that he really drilled into us, which is, you know, everyone is chief engineer. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:49 Russell Kaplan So, you know, at Tesla, we had one mantra, which was, uh, you know, never go to sleep while the GPUs are idling.
  • ▶ 35:39 Russell Kaplan Uh, when we were working on self-driving at Tesla, a lot of folks would ask us, hey, like, why don't you make the cars talk to each other?

Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale Feb 17, 2026 · 1 mention

What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale Sep 25, 2025 · 3 mentions

How AI Agents Are Transforming Logistics · Joe Lonsdale Sep 5, 2025 · 1 mention

From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:22 Marc Andreessen And then what's gonna happen, you, you've all probably seen, you know, Elon has this Optimus robot that he's building, um,

Ex-Bud Light President: The Truth Behind the Brand’s Collapse · Joe Lonsdale Feb 21, 2025 · 1 mention

The Man Behind the Military's Smartest Self-Driving Vehicles · Joe Lonsdale Jan 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12 Joe Lonsdale Everyone's paying attention to autonomous driving with companies like Tesla and others that are going to change how our world works.
  • ▶ 8:16 Joe Lonsdale And I have to admit, when I first heard about Overland, I said, wait a second, I thought that was already solved in Tesla and everyone else's way ahead, but it turns out it's a very different problem in some ways to really perfectly solve…

Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale Nov 2, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:23 Joe Lonsdale No, I mean, Elon said he got rid of all the lines of AI just by using, by using AI, he got rid of 300,000 lines of juristics, basically, in Tesla's AI for driving, which is insane.

Ep 67: Brad Gerstner on the AI Supercycle & Restoring Faith in Capitalism · Joe Lonsdale Oct 25, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep 55: Nathan Mintz on Directed Energy, a New Space Age & the Final Hurdles to a Driverless Future · Joe Lonsdale Apr 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:53 Nathan Mintz I think you're going to see incremental, uh, integration in various, starting with luxury car brands, where you're going to see something like Tesla full self-driving plus plus, um, in what they call various ODDs or operational design…

Ep 53: Joe Gebbia Changed the World with Airbnb. Here's What He's Building Next. · Joe Lonsdale Apr 12, 2023 · 3 mentions

He Built Tesla's FIRST Roadster Battery. Find Out What He's Building Next! · Joe Lonsdale Apr 21, 2022 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 1:09 Joe Lonsdale You were the seventh employee at Tesla, is that right? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:13 Joe Lonsdale And, and you were working on, I guess the first car was the Roadster, so you were working on the Roadster battery at the time then.
  • ▶ 6:13 Joe Lonsdale So you're at Tesla, one of the most exciting companies in the world. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:20 Gene Berdachevsky Um, it was really a choice between after shipping the Roadster, doing the Model S, which I knew was going to be a five-year project, and, and was going to be incredibly hard and incredibly fun, and kind of going back to the beginning.
  • ▶ 6:20 Gene Berdachevsky Um, it was really a choice between after shipping the Roadster, doing the Model S, which I knew was going to be a five-year project, and, and was going to be incredibly hard and incredibly fun, and kind of going back to the beginning.
  • ▶ 11:30 Joe Lonsdale So right, right now the high-end lifespan of a Tesla battery understands about 500,000 miles, half a million miles.
  • ▶ 21:32 Gene Berdachevsky When Tesla built the first Gigafactory, it was, it was, uh, it's, was bigger than all of the demand for all consumer electronics at the time. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:47 Joe Lonsdale I was, I was driving, I had a Tesla for a while, the model, the S model, and I, and I had an old, like, three series BMW that I used to drive a lot, and I was driving it a few years ago, and I hadn't driven it for a year, and I thought…
  • ▶ 28:18 Gene Berdachevsky So if you, if you go back to the beginning of Tesla, right, we basically consumer electronics drove the birth of, uh, you know, in the advancement of lithium ion batteries to the point where you could build the first car. 2 times in the scene

How to Fix Homelessness, Expand Telehealth, and Defeat Special Interests with Jared Meyer · Joe Lonsdale Mar 10, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:35 Joe Lonsdale The car dealers are like the people who didn't let Elon Musk sell his Tesla cars in Texas. 3 times in the scene

How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale Feb 23, 2022 · 5 mentions

Kimbal Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, The Kitchen, and Launching His First Company with Elon · Joe Lonsdale Jun 29, 2021 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 20:29 Joe Lonsdale So Kimball, you're, you're also a board member at both Tesla and SpaceX.
  • ▶ 20:52 Kimbal Musk I think that, uh, what I love about Tesla is it's really an American made company and it's, uh, in, in the car world, that's first time in a hundred years. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:43 Kimbal Musk Okay, you just pull out your Tesla app, and it comes to you when you, when you need it, and then it goes away when you don't need it.
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