Rivian

“One part of our vehicle is software and so that's what we've licensed to Volkswagen, but we didn't license to them our self-driving platform. We didn't license them, our vehicle designs”

“And so I think for any time an engineer is forming a business, there's a tendency to be really close to the product, which I think is fantastic. It's really a wonderful characteristic of technical founders, but you also need to recognize you can't be in every …”

“We'll be deploying 50,000 robo-taxi versions of R-II. We start that in twenty-twenty-eight with, like, paid, you know, regular rides, but leading into that, we'll have vehicles on the platform with safety drivers, with people in the front seat”

“Rivian was highly undercapitalized in the early years. And the reason I say it's fortunate is allowed me to learn how to run a company. So my first time starting a business, my first time running a business, one of the things that was helpful for me is we were…”

“The first product launches next year. It's a product for Europe. It'll be the lowest cost EV in Europe. It's going to be very cool. It's called the ID one VW ID one.”

“To build, like, the goal is to build one of the largest robotics companies in the world, and to do that you need A lot of capital, more capital than Rivian was able to invest at this point. And then we also wanted to create like absolute clarity of focus withi…”

“We've raised a lot of capital for it, and so we're moving very quickly to deploy our first robots into manufacturing applications with Rivian as a first customer, but ultimately with the goal of being in many manufacturing plants for many different types of pr…”

“Later this year, we'll have a full supervised point to point, which is, which would be very similar to like Tesla's FSD. And that'll roll out to all of our gen two vehicles. And of course R two. Then next year we allow it to go unsupervised. So you can take yo…”

“One of the things we do now to help make those decisions thoughtfully is on the first six months of a program, we don't allow more than 50 people to be involved.”

“That product Requires, we estimate on the order of about forty million different decisions to bring it to life. Forty million. Forty million. And there's millions of hours of engineering time necessary delivered. So the only way for this to work is you have to…”

“We did a 5.8 billion dollar software licensing deal with the second largest car company in the world with Volkswagen Group.”