Cruise

“One thing I saw in self-driving, which I guess you could say it's intuitive, but it was still very striking, was that most people on the whole were very skeptical of self-driving cars. I guess like, 75, 80% of people are like, I've never, you know, I'm never g…”

“We got completely decimated by GM's like lack of, you know, priority and then completely abandoning crews.”

“I had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to raise money. I think I pitched like A 120 investors you know, over the course of probably a couple of years to raise all the money we needed.”

“First is I'm never going to sell another company again, ever. And so like, you know, maybe it will IPO or something like that, but there will never be an acquisition in my life again.”

“To be fair, Elon nailed it from a business model perspective. He's been making billions of dollars of profit while developing self-driving cars, whereas everyone else has been burning billions of dollars to try to get to basically the same point.”

“And they had this big hole in their unit economics, which is paying the drivers. And so suddenly there was like a strong market pull for self-driving technology, whereas before I had been seen as just kind of a cool sci-fi thing.”

“I think we're probably Waymo's biggest employer outside of Waymo, and Cruise and Tesla, all, all of these organizations.”