Tesla, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Tesla comes up
Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 31:21 Michael Mignano XAI, um, has decidedly taken a very direct step into things like consumer through obviously the X platform and potentially embodied AI and robotics through potential partnerships with companies like Tesla, et cetera, and Optimus and things…
- ▶ 31:21 Michael Mignano XAI, um, has decidedly taken a very direct step into things like consumer through obviously the X platform and potentially embodied AI and robotics through potential partnerships with companies like Tesla, et cetera, and Optimus and things…
Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:30 Trae Stephens Tesla and SpaceX where there was already a lot of government intersect.
- ▶ 17:09 Trae Stephens We always had sort of an unfair advantage in that, you know, three of the co-founders were from Palantir, and then a bunch of our early team were from places like Tesla and SpaceX, where there was already a lot of government intersect.
Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf on $1B+ Revenue & Still Doubling · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 4:34 Brian Schimpf You know, it reminds me of like, you know, the Tesla progression through, you know, like a hand-built roadster that was limited edition.
- ▶ 4:34 Brian Schimpf You know, it reminds me of like, you know, the Tesla progression through, you know, like a hand-built roadster that was limited edition.
- ▶ 7:16 Brian Schimpf Compare it with like, you know, a Tesla or an Apple where
What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:51 Bradley Tusk Tesla should not be worth a fraction of what it's worth today, if not for 2 times in the scene
Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 20:09 Philip Clark Uh, and then there was no space X, there was no Android, there was no Tesla.
- ▶ 25:26 Philip Clark Uh, SpaceX and Tesla the other day, and they are some of the only companies that have actually accelerated growth at scale, which is to say they are growing at a faster rate at multi-billion dollar scale than they were when they were small.
- ▶ 28:29 Philip Clark Apple, Nvidia, Broadcom, Tesla, TSMC.
$635M Exit → $600M Fund: David Ulevitch on Building a16z’s Hottest New Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 24:47 David Ulevitch Um, the second thing is that there's more and more successful American Dynamism companies, and especially if you include people like SpaceX and Tesla, um, that the, the alumni and Palantir, and like, the alumni coming out of these…
How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 10:26 David Ulevitch All these people coming out of companies that sort of paved the way, like Palantir, Tesla, SpaceX, are now having all these alumni that are leaving and starting great companies.
Base Power Raises $1B led by Addition, with Trust Ventures, Lightspeed, a16z, Altimeter, Elad Gil · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 5:33 Zach Dell Uh, many of our investors were early investors in companies like Uber and, and some even in companies like Amazon and Tesla and businesses that, um, you know, are going after a large industries with new business models and, you know,…
- ▶ 14:07 Zach Dell We talked about our head of software, Jared, who came from Starlink, our head of go to market, Cole, who also came from Starlink, Dana, our head of deployments, who came from Anderrill, our head of hardware, Dino led Powerwall engineering… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:07 Zach Dell We talked about our head of software, Jared, who came from Starlink, our head of go to market, Cole, who also came from Starlink, Dana, our head of deployments, who came from Anderrill, our head of hardware, Dino led Powerwall engineering…
- ▶ 14:19 Zach Dell Uh, our head of manufacturing, lead model three battery manufacturing at Tesla, our head of supply chain, lead procurement at SpaceX for 10 years.
Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 52:14 Pete Shadbolt Um, and unless Tesla comes for them, but you know, they're now like they transition from enormous
Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 13:57 Ashlee Vance He was like, hated by Republicans, you know, and then now he's like, hated by the left, it's hard to keep track, and then, um, there's sort of, I always think of it as like, when the Model Three was total disaster, and you could tell it…
The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 49:06 Billy Talheimer Um, I think too, and, and obviously like Tesla has shown this in the self-driving cars, like, and we talked about it, uh, with the announcement of Regent defense today is we're also going from our human crude human captain systems to fully…
- ▶ 52:38 Mitch Lee It's kind of like our version of the Tesla roadster.
- ▶ 53:21 Mitch Lee It, I mean, in the same way that Tesla came along and said, Hey, we're going to build this vehicle around the battery pack that gives you a frunk and that gives you, uh, you know, a more modern 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:37 Molly O'Shea I mean, some of the newer models are great, but it's not like you're getting like a Tesla screen in there or like a whole dashboard that's a screen. 2 times in the scene
Meme Lord CEO Raises $22.5M Series A for Hello Patient · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 23:28 Alex Cohen Um, grok, like you can now talk to your Tesla. 2 times in the scene
How The Rarest Company On Earth Raised $75M from Altimeter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 34:26 John Maslin When we think about physical AI or robotics, if we hit the volumes that companies like Optimus or Figure AI are discussing, that could 10 X the global demand for rare earth magnets by themselves, not even touching on the other industries… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:00 Molly O'Shea Have you seen the Tesla diner?
Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on U.S. Uranium Enrichment, General Matter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 9:48 Scott Nolan So people from the nuclear industry who have experience in this area from national labs, um, and then people from hardware startups like, uh, SpaceX, Tesla, Andrel,
How Vise Became a Unicorn With Just 40 Employees · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 17:34 Samir Vasavada For most people, um, in least the way they say it, whereas like Vise is like full self Tesla, full self driving, right?
- ▶ 17:34 Samir Vasavada For most people, um, in least the way they say it, whereas like Vise is like full self Tesla, full self driving, right? 2 times in the scene
Inside Hadrian's $260M Series C to Advance Manufacturing in America · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 5:41 Chris Power And if you imagine a factory, our current ones look like data centers, the ones that we're going to launch for whole products look more like, you know, Tesla Model Three Gigafactory.
- ▶ 5:41 Chris Power And if you imagine a factory, our current ones look like data centers, the ones that we're going to launch for whole products look more like, you know, Tesla Model Three Gigafactory.
Sequoia Leads $75M Series B Into Nominal | Alfred Lin Joins Board · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 16:17 Cameron McCord Um, and the world is very much like Steven mentioned SpaceX, but even now Anderil and other places have sort of Tesla flipped that paradigm where, um, the power in hardware development just comes from like how tightly you can iterate, um,…
Nucleus Launches First Genetically Optimized Embryo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 28:09 Kian Sadeghi At some point, Tesla's are too expensive.
How Wander Raised Over $100M+ to Reinvent Luxury Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 6:22 John Andrew When, when Wander launched as a six-month-old company, and you would go and stay at one of these homes, you had a Tesla that you could unlock through the app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:45 John Andrew Um, when we had the Teslas, you had obviously like people who would like crash like every now and then, um, or like ding things or whatever. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:56 Molly O'Shea Are you gonna integrate Optimus into the house? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:29 John Andrew You know, even Tesla.
How Altimeter's $10B AUM Fund Is Investing In Aerospace, Defense, & Hardtech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 10:50 Eric Crispin You know, trained or had success at Palantir and Tesla and SpaceX and etc.
Why Bucky Moore Joined $30 Billion AUM Megafund Lightspeed · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 43:16 Bucky Moore So, I think I'd want it to be cute, like Wall-E, and then I'd want it in my house, but if it was like a, you know, a big optimist, I'd, I'd probably be a little intimidated by that, um,
Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 42:34 Leigh Marie Braswell Um, so the vast majority of companies outside of Tesla believe that you have to use this three D sensor or LIDAR, um, to have enough redundancy to make a really safe self-driving car.
Superpower Raises $30M Series A Led by Forerunner · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 10:39 Jacob Peters Something on, like, clean energy, you know, pre-Tesla days.
Base Power's $200M Series B | Co-Led by Lee Fixel, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 50:36 Zach Schendel And, you know, we've had top engineers from companies like Tesla and SpaceX and Android and Apple and kind of all, you know, many of the top technology companies that folks know reach out to us and say, Hey, I want to be a part of that…
How Kalshi Built a $2 Billion Prediction Market · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 24:13 Tarek Mansoor But yeah, I mean, I think if you let people kind of predict where Tesla is going to be on a daily and maybe even shorter term basis, like it's going to be, it's going to be very effective.
- ▶ 30:26 Tarek Mansoor Like, you know, Tesla, for example, you can buy any size.
Taking on an $80 Billion Dollar Market with Gen Z | Dylan Diamond · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 3:45 Dylan Diamond Uh, Tesla ended up working there just as a tool for myself.
- ▶ 32:16 Dylan Diamond I was working at Tesla, was their youngest software engineer, and he was doing, uh, a lot of marketing work as the youngest managing director at Havas, a global, uh, ad agency. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:31 Dylan Diamond Um, I, I found that I was learning more in the, you know, in the Tesla factory than in an engineering classroom at Penn.
How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 31:14 Packy McCormick As wind and solar make the grid more volatile, batteries are more valuable, but also as we electrify everything and everyone gets home at five o'clock to charge their, their Teslas, batteries also become more valuable to smooth out kind of…