RJ Scaringe

10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 14, 2025 by RJ Scaringe · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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2026 1 mention in 1 episode

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2025 1 mention in 1 episode

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Oct 14, 2025

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Scaringe: Lifetime vehicle service revenue generates 2.0x to 2.5x initial price

“For every, every car that's sold, whatever its sale price is, the revenue over the life of the vehicle is generally around two to two and a half x the initial sale price. But that's over a 15 year time.”

RJ Scaringe Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 59:19 How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian

Oct 14, 2025 negative

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Scaringe: Suppliers laughed at Rivian's electric SUV pitch in 2013–2014

“In, like, 2013, 20 14, I would go meet with suppliers, you know, and CEOs of very large suppliers and say, we're working on an electric SUV and electric truck as a flagship product. Following that, we want to launch more affordable electric SUVs. And the lack …”

RJ Scaringe Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 19:24 How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian

Oct 14, 2025 negative

Disclosure

Scaringe: Rivian avoids digital screen rearview mirrors because they can be disorienting

“There's like a team that like, would like to do it with the mirror as a screen. And I've been against it in part because if you have good visibility, so if you can see out the back, It's a little disorienting, and so I, my concern is you make 50% of people hap…”

RJ Scaringe Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 33:33 How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian

Oct 14, 2025 neutral

Insight

Scaringe: First vehicle launch takes 4-5 years despite billions in resources

“One of the things that makes starting a car company so difficult is you need, ah, you know, a lot of hard to obtain things all at the same time. So you need billions of dollars of capital, you need a team of thousands of engineers, you need hundreds of supplie…”

RJ Scaringe Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 1:43 How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian

Oct 14, 2025 bullish

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Scaringe: Rivian Gen 2 will see steep autonomy feature improvements over Gen 1

“So that's now in the car and it, the slope of the curve in terms of progress and additional features is going to be really steep. Your gen one won't have that. Gen two's will.”

RJ Scaringe Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 14:38 How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian

Oct 14, 2025 positive

Assertion Supported

Scaringe: LiDAR sensor costs dropped from $75,000 to $200

“Six, seven years ago a LiDAR was 20,000 dollars. 15 years ago LiDAR was 75,000 dollars. Today a LiDAR is like 200 bucks. So it's a very low cost sensor.”

RJ Scaringe Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 43:02 How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian

Oct 14, 2025 positive

Assertion Partly supported

Scaringe: Rivian Gen 2 reduces vehicle compute controllers from 17 to three

“And then with gen two, we went from 17 down to three. And so now we have a, what we call an east zone controller, a west zone controller, and a south zone controller.”

RJ Scaringe Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 13:27 How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian

Oct 14, 2025

Insight

Scaringe: 'Move fast and break things' mindset fails in manufacturing operations

“There's a certain move fast and break things mindset. And that's great for technology. It's great for pushing boundaries, but it's very different than the skills and the cultural mindset you need to run stable operations where let's say if you're running a man…”

RJ Scaringe Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 7:49 How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian

Oct 14, 2025 neutral

What-if

Scaringe: Rivian should not have launched three new vehicles simultaneously

“And so, I probably would have inserted more sequencing between all those different products”

RJ Scaringe Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 9:16 How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian

Oct 14, 2025 bullish

Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2028

Scaringe: Rivian steady-state vehicle sales will achieve 20% to 25% gross margin

“Vehicle sales, let's say that comfortably sitting it when we get to the right steady state, the 20 to 25% gross margin.”

RJ Scaringe Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 55:46 How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian

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