General Motors

also referred to as: gm

includes General Motors EV1, General Motors Technical Center

7 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 6, 2024 by John Coogan · said 62 times in 25 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by John Coogan (34), Jordi Hays (7), Saman Farid (4), Tyler Cosgrove (3), Andrew Ross Sorkin (3), Doug DeMuro (2), Austin Petersmith (2), Shyam Sankar (1)

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2026 18 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
2025 22 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
2024 22 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode

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Nov 6, 2024 positive
Insight
Bold, Unoptimized Workplace Architecture Pays Off Long-Term for Companies
“Making like bold design decisions like that, that are, they go against the obvious optimization of like square footage. Like it is going to cost you more to do this, but it's going to make a statement and it's going to be more important to the business long-te…”
John Coogan Nov 6, 2024 ▶ 2:31:14 Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
Feb 24, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Top VCs Passed on Nikola While Government and Corporate Entities Invested
“There were never VC funds piling into this. I just pulled up Crunchbase. And it was the US Department of Energy CNH Industrial, General Motors, California Transportation Commission.”
Austin Petersmith Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 12:38 Could NIKOLA Make a Comeback?
Feb 24, 2025 negative
Opinion
General Motors Failed to Do Adequate Technical Due Diligence on Nikola
“Terrible look for GM. Sounds like they didn't do a lot of technical due diligence.”
Jordi Hays Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 10:26 Could NIKOLA Make a Comeback?
Oct 15, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Andrew Ross Sorkin Compares 1920s Financier John Raskob To Elon Musk
“John Raskob is Elon Musk. I mean, I got to tell you, John Raskob Created credited General Motors became a amazing investor, then takes all of his winnings, decides to get into politics, a little Elon-like decides to back Al Smith against President Hoover. By t…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 6:47 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
Oct 15, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
General Motors Auto Loans Normalized American Consumer Debt In 1919
“It wasn't till 1919 that people were even started to think about taking on debt or anything like that in the country to then go trade. It was really a function of General Motors, by the way. General Motors started loaning money to people to buy cars. That was,…”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 26:17 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again
May 15, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Coogan: Legacy Car Companies Are 10 Years Behind Tesla in Autonomy
“Every car company is, like, 10 years behind Tesla. It's crazy that no one, that they haven't been able to figure out how to just, like, clone FSD into Rivian, and GM has Super Cruise, which is nowhere near as effective, because it only works on certain roads.”
John Coogan May 15, 2026 ▶ 31:01 SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN
Jul 30, 2026 positive
What-if
Coogan: US would be 10 years behind in EVs without Elon Musk
“Like, yeah, GM had the EV-one. There were a couple other companies that were sort of like testing things, but we'd probably be 10 years behind if he hadn't sort of like sheer force of willed that into existence.”
John Coogan Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 8:34 U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
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