Tesla

includes Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model S, Tesla Autopilot, Tesla Model X, Tesla Full Self Driving, Tesla Megapack, Tesla Optimus, Tesla Gigafactory, Tesla Model Y, Tesla Roadster

8 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Sep 15, 2016 by Elon Musk · said 96 times in 24 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Elon Musk (19), Craig Cannon (12), Andrej Karpathy (6), Juan Benet (4), Marques Brownlee (3), Jared Friedman (3), Garry Tan (3), Austen Allred (3)

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Everything said about Tesla, oldest first

Sep 15, 2016
Disclosure
Musk: 80% of my time is spent on engineering and design
“Actually almost almost all my time, like, 80% of it is spent on engineering and design. Engineering and design, so it's developing next generation product that's 80% of it.”
Elon Musk Sep 15, 2016 ▶ 16:32 Elon Musk : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
Sep 15, 2016
Insight
Musk: Building the factory is an order of magnitude harder than the vehicle
“What really matters is the machine that builds the machine, the factory and this, that is at least towards magnitude harder than the vehicle itself.”
Elon Musk Sep 15, 2016 ▶ 17:59 Elon Musk : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
Jul 1, 2017
What-if
Benet: Tesla and SpaceX would have failed without Elon Musk's personal wealth
“If Elon hadn't been personally wealthy, both projects would have probably failed.”
Juan Benet Jul 1, 2017 ▶ 50:58 IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
Mar 21, 2019 bullish
Opinion
Brownlee: Legacy automakers' EV efforts show how far ahead Tesla is
“The more like those big companies think about answering those questions, like Ford and like Chevy and those big guys. Yeah. The more you realize how, how far ahead Tesla is, but how, how much How, how far there is to go to actually make EVs useful for most peo…”
Marques Brownlee Mar 21, 2019 ▶ 14:33 Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 positive
Opinion
Allred: Tesla Model S build quality is worse, but user experience wins
“The Model S, like, the materials are worse. The build is probably not as good. Like, they're not as good at, like, assembling the pieces, but just the experience of that car versus the other one, it's not even close. And so Tesla's probably the canonical examp…”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 58:36 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Jun 19, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Rossmann: Make School Has Run Income Share Programs Since 2014
“We've been running the income share based program since 2014. So we actually have five years of data, our students getting jobs at Facebook, Google and Tesla and all these great companies.”
Jeremy Rossmann Jun 19, 2019 ▶ 3:56 Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
Nov 21, 2024 negative
Opinion
Lieb: Elon Musk's hardware taste does not translate to software
“Jeff Bezos once said that, like, taste is not transferable across domains, and to me, this is like a great example of that. I would say, Elon, like, if I drive a Tesla, I think it's the best car that I've ever sat in, but the taste and the decisions they made …”
David Lieb Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 15:04 Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Tesla Autopilot neural networks systematically replaced explicit C++ code
“As we made the autopilot better, basically the neural network grew in capability and size, and in addition to that, all the C++ code was being deleted and kind of like was And a lot of the kind of capabilities and functionality that was originally written in o…”
Andrej Karpathy Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 4:57 Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
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