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How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor Aug 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:45 Isaiah Taylor Nuclear has never had its Ford moment or its Tesla moment, if you want to put it that way.

Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture Aug 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:39 Elad Gil You know, it was originally all around El Segundo, because that's where SpaceX was, and then Anduril, and now, you know, SpaceX, and I think part of Tesla and stuff moved to Texas, and so there's like this new ecosystem kind of emerging…

Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang Jul 23, 2026 · 1 mention

How AI Agents Will Transform the Financial System with Circle Co-Founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire Apr 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:22 Jeremy Allaire I'm very proud because, uh, there, there are tokenized, uh, stocks that are out there, and the most, uh, uh, active tokenized stock today is not Tesla.

AI, R2 and the Future of Everyday Driving | Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe Feb 12, 2026 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 0:28 RJ Scaringe The world doesn't need another Model Y.
  • ▶ 8:25 Sarah Guo It's you, it's Tesla, it's Waymo.
  • ▶ 14:29 RJ Scaringe So the way car electronic systems have been designed and built and have evolved, with the exception of Tesla and Rivian, every car on the road has what, what is, uh, called a domain-based architecture.
  • ▶ 20:34 RJ Scaringe And so, of course, Tesla has the largest car park of vehicles by far. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:58 RJ Scaringe You know, it outsells everything in its class, like a model Tesla Model X outsells like two to one.
  • ▶ 24:31 RJ Scaringe You know, there's, I'd say there's like sort of singular set of great choices with the model, model three, model Y. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:31 RJ Scaringe You know, there's, I'd say there's like sort of singular set of great choices with the model, model three, model Y. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:50 RJ Scaringe So there's just such an untapped opportunity to pull customers out of ICE vehicles, out of internal combustion vehicles with a choice that's, you know, has characteristics that are different and unique relative to a Tesla. 3 times in the scene

The Largest Untapped Market Inside U.S. Defense | Emil Michael Jan 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:47 Emil Michael Those are absolutely going to be some of the things that happen, uh, in the next few years that AI will have a dramatic impact on, which is why Boston Dynamics didn't make as much progress as Optimist did in the AI.

NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrative Jan 8, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 18:17 Jensen Huang Full self-driving is really an application, an AI application that is embodied into a mechanical car.
  • ▶ 48:56 Jensen Huang Uh, last week, and number two is Tesla, so I'm very proud that two American companies are up on the top. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:10 Elad Gil So the winner is basically going to be Tesla with Optimus and other people who have both been in the industry for a while, but also have all those sort of incumbent effects.
  • ▶ 1:15:00 Jensen Huang There's no question FSD is a really good thing.

No Priors Ep. 144 | The 2026 AI Forecast with Sarah & Elad Dec 19, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 8:34 Elad Gil And then arguably the two biggest winners, at least now are Waymo and Tesla. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:44 Elad Gil It feels to me like Optimus or some form of like Tesla robot will be one of the winners, most likely, right? 3 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 141 | With Sunday Robotics Co-Founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi Nov 19, 2025 · 1 mention

No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara Nov 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:19 Sajith Wickramasekara Like, I kind of think of it as like a Waymo versus Tesla approach, where you can, you can do the Waymo approach to autonomy. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 136 | Base Power CEO and Co-Founder Zach Dell Oct 15, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 4:49 Zach Dell And it happened in autos with Tesla, it happened in aerospace with SpaceX, it happened in defense with Anduril, and it wasn't being done in energy. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:12 Zach Dell Andy Ross, our head of manufacturing, who led Model Three battery manufacturing at Tesla.
  • ▶ 6:17 Zach Dell Dino Sassarides, our head of hardware, who led Powerwall engineering at Tesla and worked on the design of the Powerwall Three. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel Aug 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

No Priors Ep. 119 | With Applied Intuition's Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig Jun 17, 2025 · 21 mentions

  • ▶ 5:18 Qasar Younis There's no path to like this next generation because without the manufacturers in the loop today, we're almost like a Tesla minus the hardware. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:48 Qasar Younis A lot of just IO, you know, it's, it's the seat warmer turns on and off, and you can actually pull all of that into a, into a central, you know, CPU, uh, and that gives you a lot of efficiency, not only in just the ability that now all the… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:54 Qasar Younis And, uh, better than Tesla to be like very, very clear. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:16 Qasar Younis Ride in V-thirteen, uh, the Tesla FSD product, right?
  • ▶ 25:07 Qasar Younis The Tesla business model has been figured out. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:22 Qasar Younis When you're, when, you know, the Waymo has taken that view, and a Waymo engineer would always say, well, FSD's nothing like us.
  • ▶ 28:29 Qasar Younis You can't have a Tesla with nobody in the driver's seat. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:28 Qasar Younis Every vehicle manufacturer in America that ships a real amount of cars is building some version of a Tesla competitor.

No Priors Ep. 107 | With Physical Intelligence Co-Founder Chelsea Finn Mar 20, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 14:39 Elad Gil And so some people are specifically focused on humanoid robots like Tesla and others under the assumption that the world is designed for people and therefore is the perfect form factor to coexist with people.
  • ▶ 26:24 Elad Gil The thing I found striking about the self-driving world is, you know, there was two dozen startups started roughly, I don't know, 10 to 15 years ago around self-driving, and the industry is largely consolidated, at least in the US, and… 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Mar 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:54 Thomas Dohmke And, you know, I had a Tesla for 10 years, uh, with, with self-driving and autopilot in, in one form or another, and it still cannot make the left turn into my, into my neighborhood.
  • ▶ 25:54 Thomas Dohmke And, you know, I had a Tesla for 10 years, uh, with, with self-driving and autopilot in, in one form or another, and it still cannot make the left turn into my, into my neighborhood.

No Priors Ep. 104 | With Flagship Pioneering CEO and Co-Founder Noubar Afeyan Feb 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:34 Noubar Afeyan Google and Tesla and Facebook and Genentech and every single one of those companies.

No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt Feb 20, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:57 Kyle Vogt And we got that working pretty quickly, you know, kind of like an early version of Tesla full self-driving.
  • ▶ 3:17 Elad Gil So there's Tesla on one side, um, with a very specific approach, kind of moving everything to things that are a bit more camera centric, but training on sort of a richer set of, uh, sensors and approaches. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:33 Kyle Vogt And so, you know, I think the only risk is that, you know, customers get fed up and and you know, of rage quit his program, but they're getting something they like along the way, Tesla full self-driving.
  • ▶ 8:48 Kyle Vogt Like, I think even, even someone like Tesla may start off with like a one-to-one ratio of remote operators to vehicles.
  • ▶ 16:38 Sarah Guo You're obviously like, hey, Tesla had the right path here. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:08 Elad Gil Um, and one could argue that the end winners of the things that actually somehow worked in the market were two incumbents, Tesla and Waymo, uh, Cruise, uh, slash GM, and then maybe to a secondary extent applied to tuition, which is…

No Priors Ep. 100 | With Sarah and Elad Feb 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:45 Elad Gil Obviously Tesla and Waymo are starting to see really interesting adoption on full-site driving, on

No Priors Ep. 95 | Best of 2024 Dec 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:09 Sarah Guo Andre, who's been a key figure in AI development from OpenAI to Tesla to the education of us all, shares a provocative perspective on ownership and access to AI models, and also makes a case for why future models might be much smaller than…

No Priors Ep. 88 | With Founder & CEO of Kalshi Tarek Mansour Oct 31, 2024 · 1 mention

No Priors Ep. 87 | With Co-CEO of Waymo Dmitri Dolgov Oct 24, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:35 Elad Gil We, we had, um, Andrej Karparathy on our podcast a couple weeks ago, and he sort of contrasted what he viewed as the Tesla approach, which was more, in his view, sort of software-driven to the, um, BMO approach, which was more sort of…

No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla Sep 5, 2024 · 28 mentions

  • ▶ 0:12 Sarah Guo Andre is a renowned researcher, beloved AI educator and cuber, an early team member from OpenAI, the lead for Autopilot at Tesla, and now working on AI for education.
  • ▶ 0:12 Sarah Guo Andre is a renowned researcher, beloved AI educator and cuber, an early team member from OpenAI, the lead for Autopilot at Tesla, and now working on AI for education.
  • ▶ 0:33 Sarah Guo You led autopilot at Tesla, and now, like, we actually have fully self-driving cars, passenger vehicles on the road. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 0:33 Sarah Guo You led autopilot at Tesla, and now, like, we actually have fully self-driving cars, passenger vehicles on the road.
  • ▶ 3:37 Elad Gil And so if you can just use cameras, which is the Tesla approach, then you effectively get rid of 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:32 Sarah Guo So, uh, you worked on the, um, Tesla humanoid robot before you left. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:32 Sarah Guo So, uh, you worked on the, um, Tesla humanoid robot before you left. 4 times in the scene

No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan May 23, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:04 Garry Tan How do I, you know, all he did was actually make a demo that, uh, funny, funny enough resembles full self-driving in any Tesla car today, but this was in 2013.
  • ▶ 18:04 Garry Tan How do I, you know, all he did was actually make a demo that, uh, funny, funny enough resembles full self-driving in any Tesla car today, but this was in 2013.

No Priors Ep. 58 | The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure Apr 4, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:21 Brett Adcock So like, um, best analogy is like, you know, 10 years ago, a Tesla went a hundred miles and now my Tesla goes 300 plus miles. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 48 | With Covariant CEO Peter Chen Jan 24, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 4:54 Peter Chen In that perspective, like we strongly believe in the Tesla approach, like where they have the most self-driving car data because they ship a great cars that people want to drive and a good enough entry-level autopilot that people are… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:54 Peter Chen In that perspective, like we strongly believe in the Tesla approach, like where they have the most self-driving car data because they ship a great cars that people want to drive and a good enough entry-level autopilot that people are…
  • ▶ 9:49 Peter Chen A robot, for example, in a Tesla factory that is handling a car body.
  • ▶ 15:43 Sarah Guo Is the, um, next step of expansion that you are excited about for covariance still within, um, pick and pack, or are there other tasks within, um, warehousing and logistics that you think are really interesting to expand into, or, you…
  • ▶ 30:41 Sarah Guo There are lots of smart Tesla and ex Tesla people where Tesla has been a, I guess, big proponent of high quality simulation, including for, um, you know, training data generation, right?

No Priors Ep. 25 | With Palantir's CTO Shyam Sankar Jul 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:00 Shyam Sankar And it's probably more akin to how Tesla has tackled, um, self-driving as opposed to, you know, cruise like big long shot.

No Priors Ep. 4 | With Zipline’s Keller Rinaudo Cliffton May 10, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 25:43 Keller Rinaudo Cliffton You know, we thought of like the company that kind of inspired us on this front was Tesla. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:47 Keller Rinaudo Cliffton You know, it's sort of similar to Tesla where Tesla has been in this crazy position of being, um, massively supply constrained for five years, because it's like, you can only build factories so fast.
  • ▶ 42:09 Sarah Guo You hired, uh, Deepak Ahuja, former Tesla
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