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Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- ▶ 6:12 unnamed speaker And then eventually that kind of hit takeoff where there was not that much more business to, for scale to do, I believe, because Waymo had gotten all of the data and Cruz had gotten the data and Tesla had gotten like the, the, the base…
- ▶ 1:05:14 unnamed speaker CapEx and one trillion potentially on the table for Elon Musk at Tesla.
- ▶ 1:26:21 unnamed speaker Okay, so, uh, uh, the update is, uh, Tesla's board has greenlit a fresh pay package for CEO Elon Musk. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:30 unnamed speaker If he hits four hundred billion in adjusted EBITDA, he deploys one million robo-taxis for commercial use, ships out one million energy storage units, produces and delivers twenty million vehicles, secures one million of ongoing FSD…
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 15:14 Jordi Hays And, uh, yeah, and you get a huge, uh, friend of the show, Andrew Ross Sorkin said yesterday, should the government start taking equity in every startup for the federal tax incentives we offer or Tesla?
- ▶ 20:40 John Coogan And then, and then on the leading edge, like, it seems like it's TSMC and Samsung, like Tesla's going with Samsung and those will be in the United States.
Google’s Genie 3 Builds Game Maps From a Single Prompt
- ▶ 13:58 unnamed speaker I mean, Waymo, Tesla and crews all had very serious simulation teams that were developing 2 times in the scene
ELON MUSK's Grok New Vulgar Anime Mode
- ▶ 17:13 unnamed speaker I have a Tesla.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 2:24:21 Ben Thompson When the Model Y was announced, and I was talking about, you know, it's a Tesla, and this aspect, what Elon Musk is very incredible at is sort of creating reality out of thin air. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:24:21 Ben Thompson When the Model Y was announced, and I was talking about, you know, it's a Tesla, and this aspect, what Elon Musk is very incredible at is sort of creating reality out of thin air. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25:41 Ben Thompson then the model X, uh, not the model X.
- ▶ 2:25:45 Ben Thompson Model three. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 2:20:46 John Coogan And then like a year later, it's like, there's Tesla cars everywhere.
Meta Poaches OpenAI Engineers
- ▶ 20:43 unnamed speaker And then like a year later, it's like, there's Tesla cars everywhere.
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 0:03 John Coogan Elon Musk announced the Tesla AI robo taxi launch in Austin, Texas. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:12 John Coogan We have someone, uh, who's written about the Tesla cyber cab, uh, in the robo taxi in the back of a robo taxi, hopefully calling in to the show.
- ▶ 1:15 unnamed speaker It's very hard to communicate just how smooth the, the car is unless you're familiar with the, with the software, unless you're familiar with FSD and how it operates on,
- ▶ 4:04 John Coogan Uh, I mean, what's remarkable about this is, is not just that it's a self-driving car, but particularly that it looks like a stock, 38,000 dollar Model Y.
- ▶ 5:54 unnamed speaker That's my Cybertruck right there just hanging out.
- ▶ 7:57 Jordi Hays I'm, I'm interested to see how quickly Tesla can actually scale this in other cities right now. 4 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 26:57 Roy Lee This guy did Tesla.
- ▶ 2:08:03 George Hotz There's no person with FSD. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:08:04 George Hotz When you get your Tesla, that's not teleopt. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- ▶ 1:18 Jordi Hays The implications for Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, even the boring company, right?
- ▶ 16:54 Jordi Hays He said, the real question is if Tesla is down 14%, how could SpaceX and OpenAI be trading 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:52 Jordi Hays Somebody's sharing, uh, resharing the picture of the, the cyber truck blown up in front of the Trump tower.
- ▶ 32:18 Delian Asparouhov Bitcoin falling, Boeing falling, Tesla falling.
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 2:24 Jordi Hays And the interesting thing is that Tesla, the Tesla stock price has been pricing in Elon, Elon leaving Washington for a while. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:43 Jordi Hays I think that Tesla model Y is still parked outside of, or, or, or it's a, yeah, cyber truck or model S.
- ▶ 4:43 Jordi Hays I think that Tesla model Y is still parked outside of, or, or, or it's a, yeah, cyber truck or model S.
- ▶ 4:43 Jordi Hays I think that Tesla model Y is still parked outside of, or, or, or it's a, yeah, cyber truck or model S.
- ▶ 19:40 Balaji Srinivasan And, and I'm like, you know, like, I think, uh, Elon is saying like, uh, Tesla or, you know, SpaceX, they turn impossible into late.
- ▶ 2:20:21 Teddy Warner This is like the same experience as going to talk with, uh, like walking down the street and chatting with a Nigerian and then a Canadian and then a Lithuanian.
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 40:20 Jackson Denka I mean, Tesla commands, what is it, like, a hundred X earnings because of Elon Musk.
- ▶ 1:29:59 Teddy Warner Uh, and one robot is running an Amazon model and one is running an Intempest model and one is running a Tesla model.
When Will Robot Deliveries Become the Default? | Daniel Singer on TBPN
- ▶ 3:38 Daniel Singer Um, but what, what I think is interesting is we've always compared the kind of Waymo and the Tesla strategy, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:40 Daniel Singer And if you've seen the latest kind of Tesla self-driving, you know, full self-driving version, uh, it's an incredible driver, right?
The Risk of Losing the Moon to China | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 22:15 unnamed speaker Uh, I can imagine that actually taking the resources on the moon and turning the propellant is, like, a massive industrial process that looks more like a Tesla Gigafactory than, like,
Building the World’s Smallest Fusion Reactor | Robin Langtry on TBPN
- ▶ 15:16 unnamed speaker You, uh, you know, we love people from Blue Origin, SpaceX, Tesla, who've kind of worked in that kind of an environment that like go fast, try stuff, iterate, stuff like that.
- ▶ 19:03 Robin Langtry Uh, everyone wants this containerized one to five megawatt form factor, it seems like, so that's, like, probably what's gonna happen, but, like, the Adam Punk, like, future would be, like, you're driving around, and you've got one in the…
What It Takes to Build a Mine | Ted Feldmann on TBPN
- ▶ 16:39 Ted Feldmann Um, the, the infrastructure is there, but it's really like a Tesla full self-driving, uh, sort of system.
Is Venture Capital Broken? | Sam Lessin on TBPN
- ▶ 29:10 Jordi Hays How cooked is Tesla? 7 times in the scene
How Robots Are Quietly Rebuilding U.S. Manufacturing | Saman Farid on TBPN
- ▶ 18:34 Saman Farid Um, some of, some of the new humanoids are using, uh, linear actuators, uh, which is a newer technology, and I think the Tesla humanoid is, is doing that.
The Race to Create General-Purpose Robots | Karol Hausman & Lachy Groom on TBPN
- ▶ 11:51 Jordi Hays It feels like there's, you know, the, the optimist, the one X you've got, you know, figure making noise.
- ▶ 27:18 Lachy Groom Uh, there's a lot of parallels, but, uh, I mean, even like the Waymo Tesla thing, right? 3 times in the scene
This Company is Building the Future of Logistics | Keller Cliffton on TBPN April 10th
- ▶ 20:47 Keller Cliffton You know, when Tesla got started, they were like, oh, we're going to use an off the shelf Lotus Elise chassis and an off the shelf battery pack that we're buying. 3 times in the scene
GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 8:03 Sheel Mohnot And by the way, like we helped Tesla along the way. 2 times in the scene
When the Stock Market Becomes a MEME | Leif Abraham on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 11:15 Leif Abraham Was essentially a tool that turned all the SEC filings that had, you know, custom company KPIs of like subscriber numbers and, you know, how many cars has Tefla shipped and things like that into more structured data.
What the New TARIFFS Mean for Tech | Logan Bartlett on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 17:45 unnamed speaker Yeah, the Elon thing is interesting because you'd think he'd be a big beneficiary of tariffs because of the cars and the exposure for Tesla, but my, my, my question is like, I feel like tech VCs like shifted so into the Trump camp, like… 3 times in the scene
Aidan McLaughlin (OpenAI) On ChatGPT, model welfare, and path to AGI
- ▶ 20:01 Jordi Hays Chaos in the world right now, politics, tariffs, all this stuff every, you know, people burning down, you know, Tesla's or whatever.
Chris Power (Hadrian) on Building Autonomous Factories
- ▶ 3:31 Chris Power So like a lot of what our software does is, you know, imagine if you're a son or daughter who was learning to drive that Tesla autopilot on an F one car, they can just, you know, drive a McLaren very quickly without much training.
- ▶ 7:09 Chris Power Hey, John, you can definitely make 50 drones or 50 of this product, but we'd really love you to partner with Hadrian because we think they should build your Tesla Gigafactory for this product line.
Christian Garrett (137 Ventures) on Investing and Markets
- ▶ 1:55 unnamed speaker Tesla's kind of rough go obviously did very well, but got kind of, you know, beat up in the courts and whatnot.
Kian Sadeghi on 23andMe’s Collapse and the Rise of Nucleus Genomics.
- ▶ 14:11 Kian Sadeghi You have Tesla.
Conor Macdonald on "Why Meta Ads Are Failing" and "How AI is Saving E-Commerce".
- ▶ 12:27 Conor Macdonald So last year we, we did a 24 karat gold plated cyber truck that we gave away or that's a Velociraptor. 5 times in the scene
Investing in the Future and the Importance of Science Fiction
- ▶ 13:35 Cyan Banister They think it's a worse place because they're on TikTok, because they're on social media, because they're being fed a feed of nonstop violence and death and Tesla cars blowing up.
Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
- ▶ 4:45 unnamed speaker Uh, and the Tesla video yesterday. 3 times in the scene
Car Dealership Guy on Electric Vehicles, Automation, and the Future of Car Dealerships.
- ▶ 8:10 unnamed speaker Uh, what, uh, you know, Tesla as a stock has been down tremendously, uh, over the last month, even, I think it's down like 35%. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:14 unnamed speaker Naturally aspirated V-II ideally in the roadster. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:21 unnamed speaker Outside of Tesla, who's on a tear and who's in trouble in terms of the big car brands right now?
- ▶ 19:02 Car Dealership Guy And frankly, Tesla is the only one that has really done a great job at it, or sure, maybe Rivian as well.
- ▶ 19:27 unnamed speaker I imagine, you know, we, we cover the, the robotics companies, the one X's, the, uh, the figures, the Tesla Optimist, things like that.
Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books.
- ▶ 16:22 Ashlee Vance Optimus, you know, to be honest, like when I first saw Optimus, I thought it was like very heavy on the smoke and mirrors and like they've made incredible progress as well. 2 times in the scene
Delian Asparouhov on Near Death Experiences, Deflecting Asteroids, and the Magic of Venture.
- ▶ 20:19 Delian Asparouhov There's a little bit of this, like, you know, people claim, Hey, I'm going to build the, like, you know, the Tesla style, you know, what I, what was their first vehicle called?
- ▶ 20:26 Delian Asparouhov And then, you know, on the roadster planes approach is like a little harder to do.
"Don't listen to anyone" - Shaun Maguire talks Elon, Robots, Space, and the Mars Mission.
- ▶ 6:26 Jordi Hays Uh, right now I think Tesla's very interesting. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:34 Shaun Maguire Tesla Optimus event, I can't remember when, maybe, you know, months ago or whatever, and it was more impressive in person than I think people realized online. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:25 John Coogan Do you think it's a good time for me to put a deposit down on a Tesla Roadster?
- ▶ 26:49 Shaun Maguire It's going to have to perfect vertical farming, you know, going to have to perfect surgical robots, going to have to, you know, or just have optimists do it.
- ▶ 28:13 Shaun Maguire I mean, look, I, it's not what people want to hear, but I think that if you don't have a very, very clear idea, don't, don't start a company just for the sake of starting a company, go join an, go join SpaceX or Joe, go join XAI or Tesla…
"Work at an outstanding organization first" - Keith Rabois Advice on Starting Companies
- ▶ 14:11 Keith Rabois Um, so, you know, and then Tesla has had a lot of progress.
- ▶ 19:06 unnamed speaker Somebody buys a model Y it's worth, you know, 30 grand less a few months later, right?
Flexport's New AI Products and the Future of Port Automation
- ▶ 15:29 unnamed speaker You can buy one at a time instead of like, well, the concern we've talked about this before, the concern with humanoids is just if humanoids depreciate at the rate that the model three does, are they viable investments, right?
HUGE Humanoid Robots Funding for 2025 ($40 BILLION)
- ▶ 10:20 unnamed speaker Um, and, and, and Brett would say, hey, look, uh, you know, how long did it take Tesla to start making real money?
- ▶ 11:51 unnamed speaker And you say, hey, Elon, we're going to go and fund a direct competitor to the Tesla Optimist, even if your venture fund is not a Tesla shareholder, Elon might say, hey, what, what, what, what, like, come on, like, I thought we were on the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:51 unnamed speaker And you say, hey, Elon, we're going to go and fund a direct competitor to the Tesla Optimist, even if your venture fund is not a Tesla shareholder, Elon might say, hey, what, what, what, what, like, come on, like, I thought we were on the…
Could NIKOLA Make a Comeback?
- ▶ 1:28 Austin Petersmith It's like Tesla already exists.
- ▶ 2:50 Jordi Hays Remember the cyber truck, it was like a hundred bucks.
- ▶ 3:00 Austin Petersmith Versus the Roadster, I think you have to put down like 50 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:09 Austin Petersmith In May of 2018, they sued Tesla for two billion dollars over design features. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:33 Austin Petersmith And you know, to be fair, like the cyber truck and other Tesla products have had similar things like that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:33 Austin Petersmith And you know, to be fair, like the cyber truck and other Tesla products have had similar things like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:37 Austin Petersmith Like the model X has the goal wing doors that are like total showstoppers.
- ▶ 12:33 Jordi Hays It wasn't like Tesla was losing engineers to Nikola. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:21 Austin Petersmith The eleven-year-old EV maker aspired to be the Tesla of trucks. 2 times in the scene
The END of LUXURY GOODS? (Trump’s Tariffs)
- ▶ 7:26 John Coogan We talk about, um, you know, all, all sorts of hardware stuff, unitary versus Boston dynamics, all these different things that could, could, or the Tesla optimist.
How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- ▶ 20:20 John Coogan DJI, Unitree, Tesla, Anderle, DeepSeek, Jane Street, Palantir, social media platforms, uh, Meta, vertical AI companies, XAI, DeepSeek, Google,
- ▶ 24:54 John Coogan They use Tesla mega packs to smooth out power fluctuations.
- ▶ 51:50 John Coogan It wasn't, it was Y Combinator had a, uh, a series of interviews on their YouTube channel, and Sam went and conducted a number of interviews, and one of them was with Elon, and so they're sitting in the Tesla factory, just chopping it up…
- ▶ 1:00:49 John Coogan Like, 2018, people were talking about SpaceX and Tesla mostly.
The Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Understanding The TRANSFORMER SHORTAGE
- ▶ 16:31 unnamed speaker Like the Tesla secret plan.
The BEST Super Bowl Commercial (Saquon Barkley)
- ▶ 28:28 John Coogan Uh, you know, oh, I don't do model S, which I think is a miss, but I think he also has like,
- ▶ 32:47 John Coogan Uh, Elon's taken a much more decentralized approach, but then he's re-centralized with things like solar city getting bought by Tesla. 3 times in the scene
Is APPLE Headed Downhill? (Investor Breakdown)
- ▶ 22:34 Jordi Hays The other people that critique was like, okay, you could have bought in Tesla in 2018, 2019 and owned the car.
Why the German Economy is COLLAPSING?
- ▶ 5:46 unnamed speaker And so you have to think about too, like the impact of Tesla on the, on the U S market for some of these German manufacturers. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:05 unnamed speaker An X and an S or a Y and a three.
- ▶ 6:05 unnamed speaker An X and an S or a Y and a three.
- ▶ 6:05 unnamed speaker An X and an S or a Y and a three.