Rivian, every mention
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every year anyone RJ Scaringe 56John Collison 47Garrett Langley 2Casey Handmer 2
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Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
- ▶ 1:09:45 Garrett Langley Uh, RJ from Rivian was here, uh, some story, like probably built too many products for too many customers really quickly.
- ▶ 1:31:42 Garrett Langley Put it at Teslas, Rivian's,
Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
- ▶ 13:54 John Collison We just had RJ from Rivian.
- ▶ 27:19 Casey Handmer I mean, um, you know, Rivian, for example, they make a beautiful product, but they're yet to make money with it. 2 times in the scene
How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian
- ▶ 0:04 John Collison Now we have R-I, R-II.
- ▶ 0:04 John Collison Now we have R-I, R-II.
- ▶ 0:11 John Collison Would anyone here buy Rivian Peregrine? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:53 John Collison RJ Skarange is the founder and CEO of Rivian, makers of electric trucks and SUVs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09 John Collison The Rivian story makes no sense to me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34 John Collison So what were the moments where, you know, if you're following the prediction market, if you're looking on Polymarket, will, uh, you know, will Rivian succeed? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:52 John Collison Going back to the Rivian story being a bit unlikely. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:36 John Collison Like, did the R-one have a lot of teething pains?
- ▶ 8:46 RJ Scaringe We launched a truck, an SUV, so the R-I-T and the R-I-S, it's a sibling set of products.
- ▶ 9:16 RJ Scaringe And so, I probably would have inserted more sequencing between all those different products, but nonetheless, when the R-One launched, we had, we won a vehicle a year, uh, we had, which was awesome, and so Motor Trend does this, a few…
- ▶ 15:01 RJ Scaringe Lower priced vehicle, which we call R-II. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:09 RJ Scaringe It's, if you like the R-I, you'll really like the R-II, but it's a starting price of 45,000 dollars. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:16 RJ Scaringe It has all the essence of a Rivian that you see in R-I, but, you know, squeezed into a slightly smaller package. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:35 RJ Scaringe In addition to R-one, in addition to our commercial vans, but, um, we're also building a plant in Georgia, which will be, like, the further expansion, and the size of the market for R-two, and then R-two variants, so there's an R-three,…
- ▶ 20:29 RJ Scaringe I mean, the R one, our new quad motor R one does zero to 60 on the R one T, the truck will do zero to 60 in just under two and a half seconds.
- ▶ 22:03 RJ Scaringe And if the, the description of a Rivian was, it's electric, and then you describe all these compromises, that sort of fits the historical, call it, 20 14 description of electric vehicle buyer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:52 John Collison Because that's one thing I associate with Rivian. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:06 RJ Scaringe And I ask them to sketch, hey, sketch me what an R-II looks like, or an R-II or an R-II. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:17 RJ Scaringe On R-One? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:30 RJ Scaringe Working directly with Apple on the applications that folks care about, like Apple Music, like these are the kinds of things we'd rather do and give customers this more highly curated choice of different platforms, but within the Rivian…
- ▶ 31:03 John Collison Can I, uh, can I give you my pitches for my suggested Rivian features?
- ▶ 36:51 John Collison You wouldn't expect a carmaker like Rivian to use Stripe. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:33 RJ Scaringe I think first is I'd say there's alignment amongst Rivian, Tesla, Waymo around the use of AI to train.
- ▶ 45:15 RJ Scaringe What's going into R-II, it's our fourth generation motor that we've designed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:54 RJ Scaringe And so, with the exception of two companies, Rivian and Tesla, every car on the road has, depending on the amount of content, anywhere from 50 to maybe a 150 little computers that run the car. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:16 John Collison Now we have R-I, R-II, Model III, X-V. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:16 John Collison Now we have R-I, R-II, Model III, X-V.
- ▶ 52:31 RJ Scaringe We decided to just keep things simple, and we had like a very, it's a structured name. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:20 John Collison As we talk about the Rivian business, think about a car business 20 years ago, say a U.S. manufacturer. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:09 John Collison Like, 200,000 R-II's times 50 K per is ten billion? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:06 RJ Scaringe So when we launch R two, everyone will have it.
- ▶ 1:02:15 RJ Scaringe The, the processes, the design of the, of the components and the systems, there, there's high degrees of overlap in some cases, you know, very similar to what we have here in the U.S. and very similar to some of the things we've done… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:20 RJ Scaringe I think that's myopically, it's, it's, it's good for Rivian, but it's, it's bad for the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:56 RJ Scaringe I really believe that R two will expand the eight percent, but if I'm buying a vehicle and I want to spend less than 50 K. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:26 John Collison Where did the name Rivian come from? 2 times in the scene