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The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode Sep 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:48 Nikhil Gupta 10% on the other side, and I know Elon Musk, but if you look at Elon Musk, he started, first was payment, and then was Tesla, then was SpaceX.

The #1 Mistake Killing B2B Startups | Arun Penmetsa, Storm Ventures Jul 21, 2026 · 2 mentions

And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet Jul 14, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 11:15 Navneet Dalal And so again and again, you, even Tesla, like, you know, electric cars, like cars, people are already using cars. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:31 Mehul Nariyawala So even to build self-driving cars, Tesla has, I think there was some stat that they were collecting 500 years worth of driving data in a day.
  • ▶ 23:39 Navneet Dalal And you, we all know the amount of data and the effort it took to get Waymo and the Tesla FSD working.
  • ▶ 50:08 Navneet Dalal Like, a very good example would be, but, you know, if Tesla has to launch Model S in 2012, they didn't put
  • ▶ 50:08 Navneet Dalal Like, a very good example would be, but, you know, if Tesla has to launch Model S in 2012, they didn't put
  • ▶ 1:00:33 Mehul Nariyawala Now, one of the most underrated innovation of Tesla is actually the direct sales model. 4 times in the scene

The $600B Grocery Market Is Obsessed With Speed — FirstClub Is Betting on Quality | Ayyappan Mar 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:17 Ayyappan Rajagopal Same thing that's happening for self-driven cars from Tesla and so on and so forth, right? 2 times in the scene

What Mistake Founders Make With A-Players | Matt MacInnis | COO Rippling Feb 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:33 Matt MacInnis He's the guy who ran the AI team at Tesla for a long time, and is, you know, if, if your listeners have, have never heard him talk or sort of dug into some of this, even just his tweets, like he's, he's like, he's just awesome.

How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal Oct 22, 2025 · 4 mentions

What is Tesla’s Former CIO Building Next? 4 Years Stealth → $4B Company | Jay Vijayan, Tekion Oct 18, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:06 Siddhartha Ahluwalia What do you build after helping Tesla scale to billions? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:26 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Going full stack is, is what you learned as your time at CIO at Tesla. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:00:21 Jay Vijayan I tried to tell my team because many times people get worked up very quickly about problems, and I tell them again and again, you know, I'm fortunate to be working at VMware at the right time, fortunate to be, you know, part of Tesla at… 2 times in the scene

8 Years Without Funding to $100M Raise & Now A Category Leader | Shivku Ganesan ,Exotel Sep 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million Jul 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You have said that, you know, deep tech startups have lower odds of success as compared to conventional startups, but I would classify Tesla, SpaceX, or the robotaxis all as deep tech startups.

Why This Founder Won’t Sell Zomato for 10 Years | India’s Top Consumer Tech Bet? May 23, 2025 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 42:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, and why did you make a prediction that Tesla will be the most valuable company in the world in the coming years? 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:41 Deepak Garg Uh, number two, when the cyber cab launches, 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:02 Deepak Garg That will be a big event in Tesla's journey and the stock price, because that will show the world the power of FSD. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:09 Deepak Garg Ah, so Tesla is someone, so, so cyber cab itself, the economics is amazing, and then if this company could solve for FSD, fully autonomous vehicles, then Optimus is only like a few quarters away, and if Optimus gets solved, then you see… 3 times in the scene

Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam Jan 24, 2025 · 4 mentions

BigBasket Co-founder on 10 Min Delivery, TATA Acquisition, Wealth Creation & More | Neon Show Sep 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:16 Vipul Parekh I mean, Tesla is a sort of beacon of hope, but I mean, China was fully EV, I mean, completely different.

China Expert: “India Must Copy This From China To Stay Ahead!” Manoj Kewalramani | Neon Show Aug 9, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:47 Manoj Kewalramani It is pushing back, you know, uh, so when it comes to EVs, its support goes to its companies as opposed to necessarily Tesla on a whole, right? 2 times in the scene

G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant On UPSC, Working With PM Modi, Incredible India & Amrit Kaal I Neon Show Apr 27, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:57 Amitabh Kant Tesla coming into India, you will see Hyundai, you will see Maruti, you will, but you will see in the Indian companies, you will see Tata's, which has already taken the lead in electric vehicles.

Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice Apr 13, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 4:37 Varun Mayya There was one guy with nine shares of Tesla, just nine shares of Tesla, who went 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:33 Varun Mayya So, if you see figure zero one, one X, Optimus, which is Tesla's Optimus, robotics is getting better, and I don't fully understand hardware as much, like I'm learning over the year, because it's important for me to pick it up, but I can…
  • ▶ 47:33 Varun Mayya So, if you see figure zero one, one X, Optimus, which is Tesla's Optimus, robotics is getting better, and I don't fully understand hardware as much, like I'm learning over the year, because it's important for me to pick it up, but I can… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:18:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia We respect Elon Musk because Tesla makes billion dollars a year. 2 times in the scene

UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show Nov 10, 2023 · 3 mentions

ATHER FOUNDER: "Selling Over 11,000 Scooters Per Month & Creating India's Best EV Brand" | Tarun M Jul 21, 2023 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 11:46 Tarun Mehta We were inspired by Tesla. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:48 Tarun Mehta Tesla had launched Model S in 2012 to some ridiculous early success, which surprisingly auto companies in India had not understood. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:33 Tarun Mehta This became the roadster equivalent of some sorts.
  • ▶ 23:45 Tarun Mehta If you get to 20, you're a Tesla. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:51 Tarun Mehta In a sense, in a sense, a little similar to how Tesla does a single software pack of its autonomous features. 13 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:37 Tarun Mehta So we had this, ah, very pure view at one point, probably inspired by Xiaomi, and also Tesla, that boss, we should not do marketing.

Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix Jul 4, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:00:30 Dheeraj Pandey And that's just basically me not taking risks of what distribution meant and something like when Tesla said you can do direct to the customer.

The Story Behind Building 100x Entrepreneur Ft. Siddhartha Ahluwalia & Nansi Mishra May 31, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 27:52 Siddhartha Ahluwalia My favorite episode is by, you know, with Javijin, who is the founder of Techion and was ex chief information officer of Tesla. 3 times in the scene

Yadhu Gopalan On His Journey, Meeting His Co-Founder & Learnings From Amazon & Microsoft! Mar 28, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:16 Yadhu Gopalan Um, I would bring it, give an example of one of these devices is your Tesla car. 2 times in the scene

Sabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead Dec 20, 2021 · 3 mentions

Capitalmind founder on Financial Independence ft. Deepak Shenoy Nov 22, 2021 · 3 mentions

Blume Ventures, Director on Investing in future of Electric Vehicles ft. Arpit Agarwal Nov 15, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 33:23 Arpit Agarwal Where people who are already in the energy market will start to invest in these companies, or people who have experienced success, like for example, an investor of Tesla may be interested in investing into, into Euler Motors.
  • ▶ 39:59 Arpit Agarwal However, in case of electric, because you are going to be able to, you, you want to be able to engage with the customer long term, long term, you will establish, for example, Tesla has, and Ola intends to establish your own grid of…

Inside the mind of Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner, Spero Ventures Nov 22, 2020 · 6 mentions

What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months? Nov 17, 2020 · 21 mentions

  • ▶ 3:35 Jay Vijayan And then Tesla was a phenomenal opportunity, um, to understand. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:41 Jay Vijayan Um, he was, uh, also a VP, uh, at Tesla with me.
  • ▶ 28:15 Jay Vijayan Reached out through, um, um, one of my connection, uh, ex-Tesla, John McNeil, who also joined my board, and we started talking to them.
  • ▶ 48:57 Jay Vijayan That helped me do what I was able to do at Tesla. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And after one year of, you know, uh, pondering over, you joined Tesla at a pay cut, but, uh, you know, once, uh, you, you, you had some good amount of stocks and when you were coming out of Tesla, like today you could have easily retired… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:02:35 Siddhartha Ahluwalia That, uh, when you were in VMware and you were first approved by a senior recruiter at Tesla, you, you almost made up your mind, and then it took one year, like, Elon talked to you, and then it took one year for Elon to convince you to… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:11:28 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And Jai, so, so I have heard, you know, that most of the senior execs, like, uh, you used to sleep even in the Tesla's offices because the deadlines were so, so same happened with you for the three, four years. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:14:20 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And I just want to touch upon the last part of your journey at Tesla.

Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies Jun 29, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:53 Somesh Dash Um, and has a list of, uh, amazing, uh, customers where now if you are an employee of, um, Facebook or employee of Genentech or Tesla, you can actually just from your phone, um, get access to a coach or a therapist and get that help in…

Vaibhav Domkundwar on his early stage bets and importance of organic growth in startups Mar 26, 2020 · 1 mention

100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders Oct 3, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:33 Kunal Khattar Um, and they work with, uh, pretty much every leading auto OEM player in the world, including everybody from a Tesla to one end, to a Toyota and Maruti the other end.
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