Tesla, every mention
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every year anyone David Senra 21Marc Andreessen 6James Dyson 6John Mackey 3Zach Dell 2Travis Kalanick 2Jason Fried 2Evan Spiegel 2Eric Glyman 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Tesla comes up
Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
- ▶ 11:39 David Senra This is before they sold to Tesla?
- ▶ 38:23 Zach Dell A lot of the Elon companies, Tesla and SpaceX, uh, but also, you know, Anderil. 2 times in the scene
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 16:38 Travis Kalanick Apple, Tesla, these guys said, screw it.
- ▶ 1:34:09 Travis Kalanick You go like, look at, you know, you can look at Tesla and all the things Elon's doing.
The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
- ▶ 3:27 Eric Glyman And so the effect is, is something more like if, if there's car companies interested, like a, maybe a Tesla is, is designed to not just get you from A to B, but to drive you there, uh, without you needing to like, you know, spend your…
Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
- ▶ 1:08:11 David Senra I remember watching this interview with him that this guy Kevin Rose did back in 2012, and Kevin was trying to figure, it's like, they're in Tesla's factory, that's where the, the interview's happening, and Kevin's like, what the hell?
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 56:06 Evan Spiegel And the reason why I don't know if that builds a durable business over time is if I look at successful hardware companies over a long period of time, we can look at Apple, we could talk about Tesla, for example.
- ▶ 56:30 Evan Spiegel Think like the Tesla Roadster, right?
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 2:19 David Senra Yeah, I think it's important to point out the context in which he started like SpaceX and Tesla.
- ▶ 6:06 unnamed speaker And so when there was like a, a real constraint on Raptor engine productivity at SpaceX, uh, the guy who, the engineer who was in charge of that, a young, really talented engineer, um, brought in the head of production from model three and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:20 unnamed speaker Like, to think about, you know, on this third company, Tesla and SpaceX, fourth company, to start with two hundred million dollars and put your entire, like, generational wealth and reputation, maybe even more importantly, on the line is,…
- ▶ 14:17 unnamed speaker Like, that's why Tesla's taking the rest of the auto industry's ass, like, and will continue to.
- ▶ 30:49 unnamed speaker Number of times combining parts has happened over the course of the Model Three or eliminating them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:24 David Senra But in that book, and I actually made, I clipped this from one of my episodes, because that was so interesting, where he's, like, at Tesla, he's just playing with, like, a little toy Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:46 unnamed speaker He, his original vision for Tesla is like, we're gonna automate everything.
- ▶ 39:13 David Senra There's a great, um, story from Tesla where you had the battery pack 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:39 unnamed speaker Well, he had a tough experience in the early days of Tesla. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:50 unnamed speaker It's the same thing with Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:03 unnamed speaker This is actually, I think, both Tesla and SpaceX's core advantage, is, like, how quickly they iterate and design new technologies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:19 David Senra So going back, let's extend this idea of like how Elon thinks about money says Tesla is getting to the point where every high quality minute of thinking has a million dollar impact. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:59 unnamed speaker Yeah, I mean, Tesla is building a lot of things in the U.S. and now working backwards into their own supply chain. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:35 unnamed speaker Like, he took what seemed like that impossible pay package trade off at Tesla that everyone was like, oh, my God, this is never going to work. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:22 David Senra Talking about the Tesla production hell.
- ▶ 1:37:25 David Senra He says there's a lot of vertical integration at Tesla. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:34 unnamed speaker Like, Tesla doesn't advertise.
- ▶ 1:44:27 unnamed speaker And the value of volume, like making these leaps between, you know, that's why they started with sports car, because you can have like a unit profitable thing at small volume, then the Model S, then the Model Three.
- ▶ 1:44:27 unnamed speaker And the value of volume, like making these leaps between, you know, that's why they started with sports car, because you can have like a unit profitable thing at small volume, then the Model S, then the Model Three.
- ▶ 1:44:27 unnamed speaker And the value of volume, like making these leaps between, you know, that's why they started with sports car, because you can have like a unit profitable thing at small volume, then the Model S, then the Model Three.
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 13:13 Marc Andreessen But, you know, everybody knows Tesla and SpaceX, like, you know, these are Elon.
- ▶ 44:12 Marc Andreessen Uh, Tesla in the old world would have just been software for self-driving cars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:36 Marc Andreessen So, Elon's a Tesla guy.
- ▶ 1:39:16 Marc Andreessen And so think about what that, this is why Tesla is smoking the, is like, has been so much dramatically outperforming the rest of the auto industry is because 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:43 David Senra He got kicked out and everything else, but then Elon pitched him Tesla 3 times in the scene
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 2:02:22 Jason Fried In fact, car manufacturers, um, with the exception of Tesla, because Tesla is outstanding, but everyone else who put a bunch of screens in their cars, they're starting to move back to dials again and buttons again, because people are like,… 2 times in the scene
John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- ▶ 56:48 John Mackey Um, Tesla. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:20 David Senra I mean, he has that document, I think, called Master Strategy that he wrote, you know, 1520 years ago, whenever it was at the beginning of Tesla.
James Dyson: 5,127 Prototypes
- ▶ 1:05:40 James Dyson So the first three or four years, Tesla was everything. 6 times in the scene
How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
- ▶ 1:13:47 David Senra Then Elon goes to start Tesla and he pitches Michael and Michael's like, uh, he's like, invest in my new company.
- ▶ 1:42:28 David Senra Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, he only ever joined two boards, and he was best friend of Steve Jobs, he was on Apple's board, he's good friends with Elon, Elon Consistent Inventor, he's on Tesla's board, and he's like, oh, and he was…