RJ Scaringe

15 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 12, 2022 by RJ Scaringe · said 10 times in 5 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Sep 12, 2022 bullish
Insight
Scaringe: Starting a car company from scratch yields more impact than legacy OEMs
“And what I realized is that the likelihood of me being successful starting a car company with no capital, no team, No technology, no brand no facilities, no supply chain. I actually felt the likelihood of me having impact doing that was still higher than the l…”
RJ Scaringe Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 11:08 Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Sep 12, 2022
Disclosure
Scaringe: Rivian's original plan was a 100-MPG sports car
“The idea was a hundred mile per gallon sports car and build a brand around efficiency and sustainability. And then from there continue to develop more and more technology, different products.”
RJ Scaringe Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 17:05 Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Sep 12, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Scaringe: Proposing electric pickups in 2013 got Rivian laughed out of rooms
“When I said I want to make electric pickups and this is 2013, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say we'd get laughed out of the room.”
RJ Scaringe Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 28:18 Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Sep 12, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Scaringe: Rivian employs roughly 500 to 600 former Tesla workers
“We say we've got about 13,000 employees. A lot of our employees formerly worked at Tesla, so probably like five, 600.”
RJ Scaringe Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 1:05:33 Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Sep 12, 2022 negative
Insight
Scaringe: Working on Plan B drops Plan A's success probability to zero
“The moment you start working on plan B or plan C, The likelihood of Plan A working goes to zero percent.”
RJ Scaringe Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 46:55 Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Sep 12, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scaringe: Auto industry change over next 20 years will exceed horse-to-car shift
“The change is going to be larger over the next two decades than what we saw in the first two decades of the auto industry, you know, the sort of the shift from a horse to a car, as we now think about going from a combustion powered non-connected vehicle, which…”
RJ Scaringe Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 8:23 Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Sep 12, 2022
Disclosure
RJ Scaringe: Rivian was initially funded by refinancing family homes
“In the beginning, it was just family and friends mainly my dad and I. And I bought a house when I was in high school, and my dad refinanced his house, and we both put that money into the business.”
RJ Scaringe Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 20:42 Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Sep 12, 2022 positive
Insight
Scaringe: Stealth Mode Kept Rivian Flexible on Strategy and Timelines
“And it was actually really helpful because it avoided us getting overly married To any specific aspect of the strategy or any specific aspect of our timeline.”
RJ Scaringe Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 43:09 Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Sep 12, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Scaringe: Copying Tesla's Roadster a decade later was not worth doing
“Tesla launched its roadster in like the 2006, 2007 timeframe. And the thought of going out and building what Tesla had already done, you know, 10 years later, just, it felt like that wasn't a problem that the world needed worked on.”
RJ Scaringe Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 29:23 Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Dec 28, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scaringe: Global EV adoption will require hundreds of distinct vehicle models
“I don't think we're going to end up in a world where there's one or two electric vehicles that we produce. 70, eighty million of a year that the whole world buys exactly those two or three products. I think the world needs, you know, lots of products, hundreds…”
RJ Scaringe Dec 28, 2023 ▶ 8:42 Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
Dec 28, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Scaringe: Rivian is exploring a friendly vehicle horn
“So I, as I said to you in the email, we're looking at that, a friendly horn.”
RJ Scaringe Dec 28, 2023 ▶ 35:32 Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
Dec 28, 2023 bullish
Opinion
Scaringe: Rivian is at the lowest risk moment in its history
“If you're looking at our company today and look at all the challenges that we have, I would look at it and say, this is the lowest risk moment in Rivian's history. We have clear line of sight to profitability.”
RJ Scaringe Dec 28, 2023 ▶ 31:42 Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
Dec 28, 2023 negative
Opinion
Scaringe: The market has a very limited supply of great EV products
“There's actually very limited supply of great EV products, and that, that may seem surprising when I say that, because there's a number of manufacturers have launched products, but when I say great EV products, products that are truly represent A meaningful st…”
RJ Scaringe Dec 28, 2023 ▶ 7:51 Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
May 15, 2025
What-if
Scaringe: Rivian would not exist if it produced its original vehicle design
“If I was making what we first thought we were going to make, the company wouldn't be here.”
RJ Scaringe May 15, 2025 ▶ 49:38 Advice Line with RJ Scaringe with Rivian
May 15, 2025
Insight
Scaringe: Founders Must Only Do What Others Cannot
“One of the things in growing and building a business, you have to really recognize what are the things that you can uniquely do for the business that others can't, especially as a founder, as a CEO. And then the things that others can do really well, you shoul…”
RJ Scaringe May 15, 2025 ▶ 35:09 Advice Line with RJ Scaringe with Rivian
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