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every year anyone Shayle Kann 4Seyed Madaeni 2Ramez Naam 2Astrid Atkinson 2Steve Letendre 1Saloni Multani 1Nick Woolley 1Matt Rogers 1Mark Cupta 1Ian Rountree 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
The multi-billion dollar promise of vehicle-to-grid integration
- ▶ 26:47 Steve Letendre Not everyone chooses to use their personal vehicle to drive people from the airport to the hotel every day, every, on the weekends, you know, for, through Uber.
Cracking the code on autonomous trucking
- ▶ 2:11 Shayle Kann He worked at Apple, Uber, Spark AI, and Wabi before starting Humble, and his view is that starting with a clean sheet, both from a vehicle perspective and from a tech stack perspective, will allow Humble to dramatically accelerate adoption…
- ▶ 33:10 Shayle Kann It's sort of like, uh, okay, Company X, usually Waymo, maybe it's gonna be Tesla soon, maybe it's gonna be Uber at some point, you know, says, okay, we're now offering publicly available rides in City X, and, uh, it's ring-fenced, you can… 2 times in the scene
Volts crossover: Six big energy questions
- ▶ 8:45 Shayle Kann And already lots of kids are just Ubering around.
The VC case for 'full stack deeptech'
- ▶ 30:34 Ian Rountree He, uh, described a full-stack startup and was, um, largely alluding to companies like Uber and Lyft and Airbnb, who rather than trying to sell software to the taxi and limousine industry or to the hotel industry, were, were leveraging…
With Great Power: Why dynamic rates are gaining momentum
- ▶ 12:11 Ahmad Faruqi It's kind of like surge pricing that Uber has.
EV charging on both sides of the pond
- ▶ 9:04 Nick Woolley I was chatting to an Uber driver who was taking me to the airport the other day, and he just bought an M, an MG in the UK market.
AI for climate: a real world test
- ▶ 25:34 Seyed Madaeni But if I want to add something real quick on that point, um, you're right, batteries can't charge and discharge at the same time, and it's rather obvious to us, but the same applies if we bring a software engineer out of, as an example,… 2 times in the scene
This episode is trash
- ▶ 18:33 Matt Rogers Uh, we've got a team of about a hundred and they're some of the best folks that I've worked with throughout my career at Apple or Nest, but also, uh, a pretty large contingency of folks from kind of the Uber and Lyft industry.
Will charging infrastructure be a bottleneck for electric vehicles?
- ▶ 21:14 Cassie Bowe So for, you could think of, for example, like a Lyft or an Uber, uh,
How will the downturn affect climate tech?
- ▶ 15:00 Saloni Multani I think there was something yesterday about the Uber CEO sending an internal memo that said, you know, cash flow matters, and so you're just seeing for these businesses that are public, a reliance on the capital markets to fund losses is,…
What the grid can learn from the internet
- ▶ 19:33 Astrid Atkinson Um, on-prem software solutions will typically use sort of two, three, maybe five, or even 10 servers, whereas the kinds of modern computing solutions for managing really large amounts of data from places like Google or Facebook or Uber or…
- ▶ 43:13 Astrid Atkinson It's, it's normal and state-of-the-art for any very large-scale distributed system like Google Systems or Facebooks or Ubers or SpaceX or, you know, any company that deals with, um, highly instrumented systems that have a lot of
Quantum computing could be a critical climate solution
- ▶ 43:00 Mark Cupta Amazon, UPS, FedEx, Uber and Lyft, Fleet Services, all of these different companies could use this tool to be able to optimize how they, uh, how we drive, how, how we move goods and services, uh, around the planet.
Can 'deeptech' venture capital solve climate change?
- ▶ 14:06 Ramez Naam The tech VC world, companies like Uber, or Lyft, or WeWork, you see companies that have burned through an enormous amount of capital, far more than most cleantech companies ever have or ever will.
- ▶ 35:09 Ramez Naam We used to believe that, or companies like, again, I'll say Uber or WeWork, we thought,