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Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It Aug 3, 2026 · 1 mention

Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020) Dec 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:04 Sal Khan I try to transcend material desires, but I'm, you know, I, I ever now and then go to a friend who's, you know, done well with their IPO or something, and they've, they got the new Tesla, or they're living in a, you know, they're living…

Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International Nov 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:37 Guy Raz Tesla, Method Soap, and Sunbum suntan lotion. 2 times in the scene

Advice Line with Dave Weiner of Priority Bicycles Sep 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:54 Guy Raz So it could, it could say like, like Tesla or Coca-Cola, like what, like you could just have

Madison Reed: Amy Errett Aug 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:44 Amy Errett I remember my experience being on the, in boards, where I'd be watching the CEO wishing I was that person, while all the other investors got in their Teslas, as I say, and drove away.

Advice Line with RJ Scaringe with Rivian May 15, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 8:17 Guy Raz Obviously, the sort of the, the, the elephant in the room, so to speak, when we talk about EVs in the US is Tesla, because it's the biggest player, right? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:23 RJ Scaringe The Model Three and Model Y are great products.
  • ▶ 9:23 RJ Scaringe The Model Three and Model Y are great products.

Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie May 12, 2025 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 17:03 Guy Raz , you started working for, for the tech blog, Pando Daily, and one of the things you start to cover is Tesla and SpaceX, and I guess, like, this kind of catches the eye of an editor at Faber and Faber, and they said, hey, do you want to… 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:32 Hamish McKenzie The Model S had come out in one car of the year in 2012, and they also created this thing called the supercharger, which would allow you to charge up your electric car for free, and fast, and it could be powered by sunlight.
  • ▶ 17:32 Hamish McKenzie The Model S had come out in one car of the year in 2012, and they also created this thing called the supercharger, which would allow you to charge up your electric car for free, and fast, and it could be powered by sunlight.
  • ▶ 19:35 Guy Raz Alright, so this is 2014, and this is still, I think, before the Model Three is, is, is been released.
  • ▶ 19:49 Guy Raz It was like when the Roadster was still, you know, there was their car.
  • ▶ 21:57 Hamish McKenzie So what happened is, while working on the book, I wanted to figure out a way to pay my bills, and I thought maybe I could work half-time at Kik, and I liked Kik because I had become friends with Ted Livingston, and so I thought, maybe if I…

Advice Line with Joe Gebbia of Airbnb Jan 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:26 Joe Gebbia And I thought, well, I'm just going to wait around until the, the Tesla or the Apple of this product category emerges.

Advice Line with Sadie Lincoln of barre3 Sep 19, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:25 Dustin Bowen Uh, so I am actually a mechanical design manager, uh, for factory engineering at Tesla. 2 times in the scene

Advice Line with Joe Kudla of Vuori Jul 25, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:06 Guy Raz If you're trying to build, you know, a car company like Tesla, you need a lot of cash, right?

Less competition, more creation with Renée Mauborgne Apr 4, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 7:42 Guy Raz Tesla has a car and Ford has one, but they really are, um, kind of the gold standard for electric trucks at the moment. 7 times in the scene

AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane Mar 14, 2024 · 2 mentions

Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies Mar 7, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 5:24 Guy Raz All right, so as you just mentioned, you, you find out about this company, uh, this is 2004, called Tesla, and, and, and unbeknownst to many people, it wasn't actually founded by Elon Musk. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:19 Guy Raz And you would be at Tesla for four years, right around the time when they released the Roadster.
  • ▶ 7:25 Guy Raz I mean, I, I remember when that Roadster came out in 2008, it was still kind of a novelty car, but.
  • ▶ 17:56 Gene Berdachevsky And so I think together, uh, with another co-founder of ours, uh, also a ex Tesla colleague, you know, the three of us kind of said, yeah, we, we think we can figure this out in five years.
  • ▶ 31:21 Gene Berdachevsky I mean, you know, it's already true that you don't have time for lunch if you're using a supercharger.

Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian Dec 28, 2023 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 6:49 Guy Raz We've seen Ford and GM and even Tesla report a slowdown in sales.
  • ▶ 11:05 Guy Raz It reminds me a little bit of how Tesla rolled out its car. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:08 Guy Raz It started with the Roadster, if you remember, right, in, like, twenty-ten, and then it went to the Model S, which was a premium-priced vehicle out of range for most people.
  • ▶ 11:08 Guy Raz It started with the Roadster, if you remember, right, in, like, twenty-ten, and then it went to the Model S, which was a premium-priced vehicle out of range for most people.
  • ▶ 11:16 Guy Raz And then they introduced the Model III, and that was really how Tesla achieved profitability. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 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. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:45 RJ Scaringe Our brand just simply slid customers from a Tesla over to Rivian.

The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo Nov 23, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 13:41 Guy Raz I guess in those early days, the, the Google strategy was really on creating driver assist technologies, not necessarily fully autonomous cars, but cars that could make it easier for drivers to navigate, basically what you've got in, you…
  • ▶ 22:26 Guy Raz I mean, a lot of people who drive Teslas, for example, I have one 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:30 Guy Raz They, uh, if we, if you use the, what, what, what Tesla calls full self-driving, uh, which is not really full self-driving, but, um, they rely primarily on cameras.

Unlocking the renewable energy revolution with Ramya Swaminathan of Malta Inc. Oct 12, 2023 · 4 mentions

A biometric smart gun with Kai Kloepfer of Biofire Oct 5, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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?
  • ▶ 35:04 Kai Kloepfer Not to overuse the Tesla analogy, and I'm not claiming BioFire's Tesla or anything like that, but in a lot of ways, you know, prior to Tesla, electric vehicles were dead. 2 times in the scene

Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies Aug 24, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:07 Kyle Clark Yeah, they're predominantly at airports, and you know, the neat thing is, we put a charger in, and then we put a dispenser, like the part that plugs into the vehicle, on the airport side, and on the parking side, and we have been flooded…

When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light Aug 10, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:55 Guy Raz I mean, you know, it took Tesla 15 years to get, to hit profitability, so Rivian and some of these other electric car companies won't hit profitability for another 10 years probably.

Powering cars with solar energy with Steve Fambro of Aptera Motors Aug 3, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 17:14 Guy Raz Sought out loans from the government, the Department of Energy, which did give big loans to Tesla and to Fisker and even to Ford.
  • ▶ 23:22 Steve Fambro There's just Tesla really, you know, there's no one else.
  • ▶ 27:05 Guy Raz You're seeing a lot of, you know, model three Teslas all over the United States.

When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora Jul 20, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:22 Guy Raz Um, let's, let's first talk about, like, level two, which I think is where, you know, cars that have some kind of automation, like, um, like Teslas, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:32 Guy Raz Um, which are called, like, the Tesla calls itself a full self-driving, you know, system or whatever it, it, it, it calls itself, but, um, it's actually not autonomous, right?

HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton May 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:46 Alex Lofton The analogy I like to think about is Elon Musk and Tesla. 2 times in the scene

HIBT Lab! Ursa Major: Joe Laurienti Apr 20, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:25 Guy Raz And one of the, and this is, and Tesla's gone through the SpaceX, um,

HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson Jan 19, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Guy Raz There's several companies like Tesla and Waymo and Cruise all working to get more autonomous vehicles on the roads.
  • ▶ 22:02 Guy Raz I mean, um, we've had, as you know, we've had crews on, on the show, which operate autonomous passenger vehicles for human passengers, and people are familiar with, like, Tesla self-driving vehicles, which are mainly cameras, ah, that…
  • ▶ 25:45 Dave Ferguson Well, so we're working with BYD, um, who is, they usually alternate between Tesla as the number one or number two electric vehicle manufacturer in the world.

Alienware: Frank Azor and Nelson Gonzalez Dec 12, 2022 · 1 mention

Ooni Pizza Ovens: Darina Garland and Kristian Tapaninaho Nov 7, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 51:38 Guy Raz Then they're talking about it, and then it becomes this, like, viral product, like, and, and this is the thing, like, we've talked about virality on the show with, like, um, Teslas work that way. 2 times in the scene

HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt Oct 27, 2022 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:06 Guy Raz So, a few weeks ago, I had a chance to go for a ride in a driverless car, and I don't mean the hands-free driving on a highway like what's available in a Tesla or in a bunch of other new cars right now.
  • ▶ 39:43 Guy Raz Your vehicles use a radar and LIDAR and GPS and cameras and Tesla, for example, which of course is working on 9 times in the scene

HIBT Lab! Universal Hydrogen: Paul Eremenko Oct 20, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 17:47 Guy Raz Battery power, like a Tesla, but just in the air. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:16 Guy Raz You know, in 2010, I went and test drove a Tesla Roadster for a story I did when I was a reporter.

Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg Sep 19, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:53 Guy Raz Tesla didn't invent electric cars, but it made them so much more interesting and efficient.

HIBT Lab! SOURCE Global: Cody Friesen Sep 15, 2022 · 1 mention

Rivian: RJ Scaringe Sep 12, 2022 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 3:38 Guy Raz Now, even though you may think you see electric Teslas and Kias everywhere you look, electric vehicles only make up around four and a half percent of all cars on the road in the US.
  • ▶ 28:57 Guy Raz I remember test driving a Tesla Roadster. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:23 RJ Scaringe Um, but Tesla launched its roadster in like the 2006, 2007 timeframe. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 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.
  • ▶ 51:28 Guy Raz At this point, Tesla is really starting to make an impact. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:04:40 Guy Raz Let's, let's talk about Tesla. 8 times in the scene

Noom: Saeju Jeong Aug 8, 2022 · 1 mention

HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird Jul 7, 2022 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 8:16 Donnel Baird Like other things work, like they loaned half a billion dollars to Tesla.
  • ▶ 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…
  • ▶ 35:49 Donnel Baird I think in Silicon Valley, and this is why we had such a hard time raising capital initially, you know, look at Tesla, like they come out with the Roadster first, and it's like, I don't know, would it cost a hundred grand, 200 grand?
  • ▶ 35:49 Donnel Baird I think in Silicon Valley, and this is why we had such a hard time raising capital initially, you know, look at Tesla, like they come out with the Roadster first, and it's like, I don't know, would it cost a hundred grand, 200 grand?
  • ▶ 36:10 Guy Raz Then you get the Model Three, yeah.
  • ▶ 41:58 Donnel Baird The Biden-Harris administration is providing lots of capital to small businesses and companies, just like the Obama administration loaned five hundred million dollars to Tesla and Elon Musk.

PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2) Jun 13, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:06 Guy Raz Companies including YouTube, Tesla, Facebook, Yelp, Flickr, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Palantir, and many more.

HIBT Lab! UNLESS Collective: Eric Liedtke May 16, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 17:12 Eric Liedtke So Tesla came out and brought, built something up that, um, that really shook up the world and scared the incumbents.
  • ▶ 26:56 Eric Liedtke And I'll, I'll point at Tesla as another great example. 2 times in the scene

Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:47 Will Marshall The satellite project that we were working on at NASA, we met, uh, someone there who was quite unassuming there called Steve Jurvetson, who was a venture capitalist, um, actually became the main funder of Tesla and SpaceX, and, and we met…

KAYAK: Paul English Sep 27, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:09:00 Guy Raz Like, you signed up to be an Uber driver in your Tesla in Boston, right? 2 times in the scene

Casper: Philip Krim Jun 28, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:16 Guy Raz I'm talking about Peloton and Allbirds and Warby Parker and Bonobos, even Tesla.

Khan Academy: Sal Khan Sep 21, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:16:45 Sal Khan I try to transcend material desires, but I'm, you know, I, I ever now and then go to a friend who's, you know, done well with their IPO or something, and they've, they got the new Tesla, or they're living in a, you know, they're living…

Rad Power Bikes: Mike Radenbaugh Sep 7, 2020 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:37 Guy Raz It's part of the reason why Tesla doesn't have to spend a whole lot on advertising. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:06 Guy Raz Were you thinking, hey, maybe I'll go, like, work for Tesla one day?
  • ▶ 24:08 Guy Raz Because by, by 20 12, I mean, of course, they didn't have the Model S or the Model three and, you know, that stuff, but they, they already had a viable, I think they already had the first, like, the roadster out.
  • ▶ 24:08 Guy Raz Because by, by 20 12, I mean, of course, they didn't have the Model S or the Model three and, you know, that stuff, but they, they already had a viable, I think they already had the first, like, the roadster out.
  • ▶ 24:08 Guy Raz Because by, by 20 12, I mean, of course, they didn't have the Model S or the Model three and, you know, that stuff, but they, they already had a viable, I think they already had the first, like, the roadster out.

Supergoop!: Holly Thaggard Jun 8, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 49:54 Holly Thaggard Yeah, we launched in Shell, uh, in their apothecary, and, you know, there are things that came from that that were super inspiring along the way, like being asked to, I know we got a call once from Elon Musk's team to put Supergoop into… 2 times in the scene

Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales (2018) Jan 27, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:31 Jimmy Wales If you're reading about Tesla cars or vacations in Las Vegas or something like that, I mean, we would have an incentive to start creating content that would drive higher ad revenues, which is really not what we want to do.

Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber Oct 21, 2019 · 1 mention

Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales Feb 26, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:09 Jimmy Wales If you're reading about Tesla cars or vacations in Las Vegas or something like that, I mean, we would have an incentive to start creating content that would drive higher ad revenues, which is really not what we want to do.
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