Tesla, every mention
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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 14Mike Maples, Jr. 8Gustaf Alströmer 6Seth Godin 5Alexander Embirikos 4Roger Martin 3Camille Ricketts 3Alistair Croll 3Scott Belsky 2Rory Sutherland 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Tesla comes up
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 56:39 Roman Ugarte And I think we're certainly seeing a lot of this, like on X right now, you see all of these examples of, uh, Grokvot controlling their home robot computer or home robot vacuum cleaner, uh, or Grokvot, you know, helping them save money on…
Why securing AI is harder than anyone expected and guardrails are failing | HackAPrompt CEO
- ▶ 14:48 Sander Schulhoff Uh, and the relevant example here is the Vegas Cybertruck explosion incident, uh, bombing rather.
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 1:19:37 Alexander Embirikos We got a Tesla instead, and I have to say that I find the Tesla software, like, quite inspiring. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:43 Alexander Embirikos Um, in particular, it has, like, the self-driving feature, and, you know, I, I've mentioned a few times, like, today, like, I think it's really interesting to think about how to build, like, mixed initiative software that makes you feel… 2 times in the scene
Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
- ▶ 1:01:44 Lenny Rachitsky On that note, I recently discovered Teslas actually do this now.
A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love
- ▶ 43:45 Rachel Lockett So I've also witnessed people who are still inspired and continually energetic and seem to have some secret well of, you know, some diesel battery, or I guess I should say a Tesla battery that helps them through really hard challenges, and…
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 42:04 Brendan Foody So they had us in, uh, two days later to the Tesla office, and we met the entire XAI co-founding team except for Elon, while he was still a college student.
Making and Leading Products People Love (Scott Belsky) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- ▶ 15:41 Scott Belsky In Tesla, you know, no one was in the early days saying, I just love how this car functions as a car as much as they were saying, oh, this cool rainbow road Easter egg where you like do this on the dashboard and touch this button and this…
Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more
- ▶ 2:06 Lenny Rachitsky His thoughts on the Jaguar rebrand, and also the Tesla Cybertruck.
- ▶ 40:27 Seth Godin And, you know, it's interesting if you think about two things that Tesla did right at the beginning with the Model S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:27 Seth Godin And, you know, it's interesting if you think about two things that Tesla did right at the beginning with the Model S.
- ▶ 41:16 Seth Godin Compare this to the clown car, the Cybertruck, which was intentionally divisive, and most people don't want to not only drive one, but have one on their block. 2 times in the scene
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- ▶ 39:25 Alistair Croll Uh, Jessica Scorpio, when she was launching get around, which was a car rental by owner service, she had access to one of her VCs friends who had an early Tesla Roadster.
- ▶ 52:38 Alistair Croll And then Tesla started racing them against Bugattis. 2 times in the scene
Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- ▶ 27:37 JM Nickels It's like, well, a lot of people are like, oh, well, once we have cheap autonomous cars, like everyone could just have their own super cheap Uber or Tesla or whatever it is, you're on the city and you're like, well, that doesn't work…
- ▶ 54:29 JM Nickels You know, Tesla publishes their stigma design and some, you know, earnings report and everyone goes crazy.
5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)
- ▶ 33:15 Roger Martin Same with Tesla. 3 times in the scene
What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- ▶ 56:03 Lenny Rachitsky I'm excited for the Tesla version of keys.
- ▶ 1:09:07 Rory Sutherland I think Tesla's quite clever in the choice architecture of Tesla's is just the right amount of choice. 2 times in the scene
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 1:02:40 Mike Maples, Jr. You know, nobody looks at the Tesla cyber truck and says, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:51 Mike Maples, Jr. Another one that I really like is Tesla. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:22 Mike Maples, Jr. You know, the, the, the Tesla was this way, right?
- ▶ 1:15:35 Mike Maples, Jr. And when you bought the Tesla Roadster, you weren't buying it for practical reasons.
Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- ▶ 14:18 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, Tesla create the most compelling car company of the 21st century.
How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (Author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, more)
- ▶ 43:59 Christopher Lochhead At, um, the founder of Rivian, obviously Musk at Tesla.
The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin
- ▶ 18:27 Andy Raskin There was one I wrote before that about, it's kind of dissecting Elon Musk's pitch for the Powerwall, the battery that they sell.
Lessons on product sense, AI, the first mile experience, and the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe)
- ▶ 15:30 Scott Belsky And, you know, you look at a product like Tesla, you know, people are not going and talking about how they had a great drive today, but they're talking about the Easter egg they did, they discovered on the dashboard or the, you know, cool…
Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- ▶ 1:24:12 Lenny Rachitsky And he's the, uh, ex-Tesla, uh, AI.
How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian)
- ▶ 8:39 Carilu Dietrich I went on a tour of the Tesla factory with my daughter's, um, field trip a couple of weeks ago.
- ▶ 11:48 Carilu Dietrich Like I would love to work for Tesla or AWS or gosh, right.
Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)
- ▶ 4:48 Lenny Rachitsky Like I have a Tesla
- ▶ 11:03 Lenny Rachitsky Touching again on, uh, safety and, like, human behavior, I was thinking a little bit as you were chatting about, uh, so I have a Tesla, which has self-driving car, self-driving capabilities, and intellectually, I know it's probably gonna… 2 times in the scene
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
- ▶ 33:51 Gustaf Alströmer And I was like, you know, just rent an EV and go and charge at all the non-Tesla chargers and see what, see what they say, or see what you experience.
- ▶ 1:01:02 Gustaf Alströmer So I think if you look at something like Tesla, which now has a, I don't know, six, seven hundred billion dollar market cap, that's just one company that currently provides like a couple of percent of all the cars in the United States, new…
- ▶ 1:08:30 Gustaf Alströmer So it's not a natural solution where someone would be cool, someone will build like a Tesla for ships and then just work out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:11 Gustaf Alströmer And then they don't want to be the Toyota to Tesla, right? 2 times in the scene
Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)
- ▶ 12:41 Keith Yandell Because not everyone wants to, every software engineer wants to hop in their Tesla and go out and deliver McDonald's to some kids.
Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
- ▶ 8:29 Lenny Rachitsky When I think self-driving money, I'm picturing money just driving around like a Tesla money meets Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:10 Chris Hutchins Like I think it's similar to Tesla's autopilot.
How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts
- ▶ 1:15 Lenny Rachitsky Camille also did content marketing at Kiva and also comms and PR at early Tesla, where she sat right next to Elon Musk for about a year.
- ▶ 4:57 Camille Ricketts I started off as a journalist at the Wall Street Journal and then found my way into communications and marketing at Tesla Motors, where part of my responsibility there was to sit to Elon's right and make sure he had all the data he needed…
- ▶ 6:02 Camille Ricketts Um, this was before Model S came out even, so a lot of my work was, and this is a great opportunity, but driving around in the Roadster and talking to
- ▶ 6:02 Camille Ricketts Um, this was before Model S came out even, so a lot of my work was, and this is a great opportunity, but driving around in the Roadster and talking to
How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary
- ▶ 22:56 Lenny Rachitsky They were interviewing the head of AI at Tesla or former head of AI.
Customer-led growth | Georgiana Laudi (Forget The Funnel)
- ▶ 35:51 Lenny Rachitsky Over 10,000 people from Airbnb to Coinbase to Google to Tesla
Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- ▶ 36:40 Lenny Rachitsky Over 10,000 people from Airbnb to Coinbase to Google to Tesla
The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
- ▶ 26:27 Arielle Jackson Think about like, how did Tesla get their name?