Rivian, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Rivian comes up
Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
Advice Line with RJ Scaringe with Rivian
- ▶ 1:09 Guy Raz He's the founder and CEO of the electric vehicle company Rivian. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54 Guy Raz Now you've got the R-one S, which is the SUV. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:36 RJ Scaringe You couldn't have imagined a more challenging backdrop to be building the company in, but a lot of those skills we built in terms of managing supply chains, being really dynamic around, you know, how we think about those supply chains, uh,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:57 Guy Raz So it's a smaller SUV, and then you're going to launch an R three, which is a, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 RJ Scaringe So in the case of R one, of course, the pandemic and then the supply chain crisis in the case of R two are now, you know, this really significant trade tensions that exist across the planet and in automotive, this is very significant… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:41 RJ Scaringe And R-three, and you can imagine R-four, R-five, as we continue to build out the portfolio.
- ▶ 9:41 RJ Scaringe And R-three, and you can imagine R-four, R-five, as we continue to build out the portfolio.
- ▶ 15:39 RJ Scaringe And one of the things that I, it took a long time, but I would say we were fortunate in how I built Rivian is we had really aligned investors that allowed us to iterate, that allowed us to challenge ourselves.
- ▶ 20:30 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is Rivian founder and CEO RJ Skirinj. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:17 Guy Raz You are on with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:07 RJ Scaringe But I think certainly in Rivian's case, a lot of the specifics of what we thought we were going to do in the beginning, weren't the right answer. 3 times in the scene
Less competition, more creation with Renée Mauborgne
Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies
Parachute Home: Ariel Kaye
- ▶ 19:20 unnamed speaker One of my favorite episodes of how I built this has to be RJ Scringe of Rivian.
Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
- ▶ 0:06 Guy Raz Rivian trucks and SUVs are some of the most in-demand electric vehicles on the market. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27 RJ Scaringe And we launched our truck, our R-I-T, its sibling variant, the R-I-S, uh, and then a commercial van with Amazon as the lead customer.
- ▶ 4:38 RJ Scaringe I mean, it was all of the above, pleading with them, painting the broader picture of why it was disproportionately important for us as a company to gain access to supply relative to other companies that might have multiple product lines or… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:32 Guy Raz I want to ask you about the R-II in a moment.
- ▶ 10:42 Guy Raz My guest today is Rivian founder and CEO RJ Skorinch. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:53 Guy Raz Sajay, the R-II, um, this is gonna be your mid-priced sort of, um, crossover that you plan to release in twenty-twenty-six, and it'll, as you say, retail for between 40 and 50,000 dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:44 RJ Scaringe We started with what we think of as, like, our flagship products, the R-I.
- ▶ 13:24 Guy Raz The other thing that you're, you did was you signed an agreement with Tesla to allow Rivian vehicles to charge at Tesla charging stations. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:14 RJ Scaringe I think the thing to recognize is even as big as Tesla's network is, we still need to build a lot more charging infrastructure, and so we're continuing to invest in our own network, what we call the Rivian Adventure Network.
- ▶ 15:45 Guy Raz I mean, I believe that effectively Rivian is subsidizing every vehicle, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 RJ Scaringe Well, in the case of R-one, you know, today the product is not gross margin positive. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:26 RJ Scaringe They're extremely excited about our two, and it's allowing us to make very significant reductions in the overall cost structure. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:02 Guy Raz And at the same time, there's an external narrative, right, in the newspapers and on TV of Rivian's challenges, Rivian's problems. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:40 Guy Raz Here's more from my conversation with RJ Skaring, founder and CEO of Rivian. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:29 Guy Raz I mean, I can imagine if I was running your company, I wouldn't sleep. 5 times in the scene
A biometric smart gun with Kai Kloepfer of Biofire
- ▶ 23:58 Guy Raz I mean, I, I, I keep thinking of Rivians, and we had RJ Skaring on the show a couple months ago, and he's a brilliant founder, and he really, he understood that, you know, trucks are the number one, two, and three best-selling vehicles in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:51 Kai Kloepfer You know, not too dissimilar from a Tesla or Rivian, like we're never going to address the entire market and we have no plans to, right?
When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light
Powering cars with solar energy with Steve Fambro of Aptera Motors
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
Rivian: RJ Scaringe
- ▶ 1:33 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how RJ Scaringe was laughed out of the room when he set out to make an all-electric pickup, and how that motivated him to build Rivian, a truck to push gas-guzzling vehicles off the road. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:58 RJ Scaringe I was very close, and in fact, signed onto a position at Stanford, but ultimately switched a few days into that to MIT, and the reason was I was selecting the grad school based upon what I thought would best position me for, for starting…
- ▶ 15:45 RJ Scaringe But other than that, I really kept it very much to myself, and then, of course, we graduated, and I started the company the next day. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:15 RJ Scaringe Do we deserve to exist as a company? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:57 RJ Scaringe So, I mean, the, this was one of my, in the moment, most perplexing and challenging times, but looking back, it was actually one of my favorite times in Rivian's history because it was so freeing to say, we're trying to solve for impact.
- ▶ 32:59 Guy Raz The whole sort of U.S. automotive industry is, is based in the upper Midwest, um, but, and just out of curiosity, at this point, what the company is like, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:49 Guy Raz And, and so what you pitched him on, on Rivian. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:19 RJ Scaringe This was, it was completed end of 13, beginning of 13, and we called this P-One.
- ▶ 44:42 RJ Scaringe So then we built another version, which we called Alpha.
- ▶ 48:42 RJ Scaringe And this was one that I was even more focused on, is we were trying to target customers that were not electric vehicle customers, meaning it doesn't have impact if we're just moving a customer from a Tesla into a Rivian. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:09 RJ Scaringe So we sort of bought it and then said, okay, now we got to secure all the capital to convert this into a Rivian plant.
- ▶ 54:01 RJ Scaringe We needed awareness, and so whether it's investors or suppliers or recruiting, it just became really problematic, and so we took the decision to say, let's come out of stealth, and we decided to show the R-I-T and the R-I-S, that's our…
- ▶ 54:48 Guy Raz Amazon would eventually invest seven hundred million dollars in Rivian and, and, and also order a 100,000 trucks.
- ▶ 55:58 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how RJ's plans to get Rivian up to speed gets snarled up in the supply chain.
- ▶ 56:47 Guy Raz And because Rivian has been operating in stealth mode for, like, five years, it kind of seems like they've come out of nowhere. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:27 Guy Raz Because here we are, and we're talking about your company that is now public, it's worth 30, forty billion dollars, but whatever the market cap is today, you know, the stock market's been a little nutty. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:31 RJ Scaringe We have our truck, the R-I-T, our SUV, our R-I-S, uh, and then we have a commercial van, uh, there's two different sizes of the van. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:31 RJ Scaringe We have our truck, the R-I-T, our SUV, our R-I-S, uh, and then we have a commercial van, uh, there's two different sizes of the van.
- ▶ 1:04:05 RJ Scaringe It's, uh, if I were to look at the risk of Rivian's success today versus the risk a year ago versus the risk five years ago, I would say at this moment, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:33 RJ Scaringe We say we've, we've got about 13,000 employees. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:22 RJ Scaringe It would be like seeing an antique, and the role that we play there is an important one, we believe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:30 Guy Raz I mean, you've got this facility and all these employees, 13,000 people, and these two products that people love and want more of, you can't make them fast enough, you know, multi-billion, in the tens of billions of dollars in value this…
- ▶ 1:12:33 Guy Raz That's RJ Skareng, founder and CEO of Rivian. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 18:26 Donnel Baird In the same way that Tesla and Rivian can take an automobile and rip out the fossil fuel engine and replace it with an all electric engine, we can now do the same thing with hardware and buildings, and so we can go into basically any…