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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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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,…”
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.”
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…”