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Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution Jul 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:48 Alex Kolicich When I went home for, um, the holidays, you know, I come from more of a working class area, so I mentioned a few of our companies, some of the autonomy companies were invested in, and they were like, oh, so who's gonna drive the taxis,…

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

  • ▶ 52:59 Alex Kolicich When I went home for, um, the holidays, you know, I come from more of a working class area, so I mentioned a few of our companies, some of the autonomy companies were invested in, and they were like, oh, so who's gonna drive the taxis,…

Secret Tech Billionaire Is Betting $1B on This · Joe Lonsdale Oct 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:48 Joe Liemandt In that, you know, we're in Austin and there's robo taxis and, you know, uh, Waymo's and everything.

The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale Sep 15, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 24:24 Max Meyer I think it's super entertaining that, you know, Waymo, which is, uh, you know, owned by Google, self-driving cars, it's very much a Bay Area company. 3 times in the scene

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

How AI Robots Are Taking Over Construction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 16, 2025 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 0:07 Joe Lonsdale You became a key leader at Waymo.
  • ▶ 1:15 Joe Lonsdale At Waymo, he helped develop some of the most important systems for self-driving for trucks and otherwise. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:24 Boris Sofman Grand Challenge, Urban Challenge, and then Waymo, Aurora, Uber, ATG.
  • ▶ 6:57 Joe Lonsdale You sold on key to Google and you went there and you became, you became a key leader at Waymo, which everyone knows. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:52 Boris Sofman So then there's a couple of properties there where, you know, for Waymo, it's, it's an interesting kind of a hybrid because at the end of the day, um, some layers of, um, structured heuristics are actually helpful because of the long tail… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:37 Joe Lonsdale So you guys, a lot of the top talent in the world, obviously crushed these problems at Waymo. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:20 Boris Sofman You know, we saw the same thing at Waymo, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:41 Boris Sofman That's a pretty massive enabler where suddenly, um, you know, Waymo invented incredible sensors, compute, LiDAR, everything, because it kind of had to, 15 years ago that just the ecosystem wasn't there.

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

  • ▶ 19:58 Marc Andreessen And if you, if you haven't tried this yet, if go to, go to, if you ever have the misfortune of finding yourself in San Francisco, uh, take a Waymo.

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

  • ▶ 36:17 Elad Gil So you look at what Waymo is doing for self-driving or self-driving, they've moved over to a transformer backbone, and suddenly they see dramatic improvements.

Ep 55: Nathan Mintz on Directed Energy, a New Space Age & the Final Hurdles to a Driverless Future · Joe Lonsdale Apr 27, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:46 Nathan Mintz I mean, like, as Waymo and Cruise and others have started to deploy at scale, we've seen this a lot, where, like, the Waymo car, kind of like, you know, my grandmother, if she's, when she's confused, will, will drive into, like, a… 2 times in the scene
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