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The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen Dec 7, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:35 Edwin Chen So it's funny, but I was in SF earlier this week, and I finally took a Waymo for the first time. 4 times in the scene

The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Nov 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:07 Dr. Fei-Fei Li Being able to drive a 130 miles in the Nevada desert to today's Waymo and, um, on the street of San Francisco.

From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo Sep 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:39 Lenny Rachitsky I'm one of those people that says thank you to the Waymo when I leave and just like, thanks, uh, ChatGPT when I'm in voice mode, just like, thank you.
  • ▶ 1:28:21 Lenny Rachitsky That's, uh, essentially Waymo meets Roomba for folks that don't anything about it.

$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z) Sep 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12:05 Ben Horowitz And it's funny, you know, like, cause we're investors in, in Waymo. 2 times in the scene

How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO) Aug 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI) Aug 9, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:20 Nick Turley Um, it's not that like you actually are going to watch it the whole time, but it gives you a mental model and makes you feel in control in the same way that when you're in a Waymo, you get that screen for those of you who've tried Waymo,… 2 times in the scene

I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson Jul 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:22:58 Andrew Wilkinson It's called the Matic Vacuum, M-A-T-I-C, and basically, I think it's like former Google engineers basically built like a mini Waymo car, so it has like machine vision, and it will avoid absolutely everything and never get tangled, and it…

Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal Jun 1, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 52:31 Sachin Kansal It's roughly about 15,000 cities, so there's a huge, you know, geographical landscape for us to capture as well, but that's our strategy, and so far we recently launched in Austin with Waymo, and that's been going really well, uh, and we… 4 times in the scene

Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu May 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:26 Scott Wu We had one person who was at Waymo, someone who had their own YC tools startup, uh, for, for machine learning.

OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil Apr 10, 2025 · 4 mentions

Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise) Nov 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:48 Aman Khan And you can kind of see that even now, if you've like taken, you know, if you've been, if you've been able to like take a Waymo or a self-driving car, like the car is fully self-driving, but you can still control the air conditioning.

A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo Nov 6, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 23:19 Kevin Weil Uh, I was talking to somebody the other day, and they were telling me about their first Waymo ride. 3 times in the scene

Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash) Oct 6, 2024 · 23 mentions

  • ▶ 0:59 Lenny Rachitsky JM has been a product leader at Waymo, DoorDash, and Uber. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:59 JM Nickels We've seen, we've signed deals with Waymo and cruise and other autonomous players.
  • ▶ 30:01 Lenny Rachitsky And I think like, you know, transportation, Uber, Waymo, it's like, in theory, it might be easier to visualize that future and how exciting that might be versus a B to B SaaS payroll app or some like photo sharing thing.
  • ▶ 36:01 JM Nickels It's kind of all how this around like, okay, well, you know, now that we have taxis in the platform and we have fleet providers and we're starting to add Waymos and cruise and other things, you know, we have to have a marketplace that's…
  • ▶ 46:17 Lenny Rachitsky One is you've worked at a lot of really interesting, successful hyper growth companies, DoorDash, Uber, Waymo.
  • ▶ 50:15 Lenny Rachitsky What about Waymo? 13 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:12 JM Nickels You know, it's like, you gotta just be mindful that it's more than just one. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:17 JM Nickels There might be fear around like, you know, let's say back at Waymo, you know, you're, you want to be really intentional about safety and you want to be super, you know, that's one of the things I love about Waymo is they're very committed… 2 times in the scene

Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate) Jul 7, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:05 Mike Maples, Jr. They had worked at car companies in the past in the big three, and then they worked in inside of Google at Waymo and Google maps.

Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) Apr 9, 2023 · 28 mentions

  • ▶ 0:33 Lenny Rachitsky Shweta is Senior Director of Product Management at Waymo, which if you're not familiar with Waymo, they are building self-driving cars that are already live on the streets in San Francisco, LA, and Phoenix. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:54 Lenny Rachitsky I thought we'd start with just a little bit about what it is you do at Waymo today. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:34 Lenny Rachitsky So as you know, you, uh, arranged a ride for me on, in a Waymo in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:15 Lenny Rachitsky So before Waymo, you worked at non-self-driving, uh, software companies, worked at Amazon, Cisco, a few other companies. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:57 Shweta Shrivastava Which is for Waymo, we started by solving the problem of fully autonomous driving without a human driver at the wheel from the get-go, right?
  • ▶ 17:10 Shweta Shrivastava And then on the, on the driver performance, the driver, BMO drivers, the, is the technology name as, as I alluded to earlier, the driver performance metrics, you know, they span across safety.
  • ▶ 22:53 Lenny Rachitsky So Waymo has been this long-term investment for Alphabet, and many PMs often try to create buy-in and keep buy-in for large investment in a large project. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:28 Lenny Rachitsky And I just want to ask, you worked at Amazon, Cisco, Waymo now, startup you mentioned, what are just some of the biggest lessons you've learned about successfully of building successful teams and successful products? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:20 Lenny Rachitsky I have a couple final Waymo questions, and then we're going to get to our very exciting lightning round. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:28 Shweta Shrivastava And then I use a different form of thing here at BMO is what I used to call as the rule of seven. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:16 Lenny Rachitsky Maybe apply to join Waymo if you're hiring. 2 times in the scene
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