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Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator Jul 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:54 Jensen Huang And so, uh, inside Waymo, uh, our chips from NVIDIA, uh, at, at Tesla, we were in the car, uh, now we're in the data center.

World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator Jul 17, 2026 · 24 mentions

  • ▶ 36:47 unnamed speaker Tesla FST and whatnot that seem like they kind of work.
  • ▶ 41:12 unnamed speaker yeah, so 36,000 action space is very large, and then even worse, unless you're Tesla, 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:30 unnamed speaker I mean, the amount of work that they're doing at FSD is like incredible
  • ▶ 47:16 unnamed speaker And nor is there yet something like, uh, Tesla's fleet where there are cars deployed that people are just using and they're not even necessarily realizing 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:34 unnamed speaker And so if I were to like train this policy on Tesla model X and I were to like put it on a Tesla model three, it wouldn't work. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:34 unnamed speaker And so if I were to like train this policy on Tesla model X and I were to like put it on a Tesla model three, it wouldn't work. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:07 unnamed speaker I mean, they, they have these that roll out, but actually even with Tesla's new FSD today, they don't roll out in all the cars at the same time, probably for more or less that reason. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:16 unnamed speaker I mean, you have bigger differences between embodiments than a Model Three versus Y.

The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator Jun 10, 2026 · 1 mention

The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator Apr 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:51 Garry Tan And then, of course, those are sort of the industrial cases, like, you know, you have these giant Tesla robots in the Gigafactory and things like that.
  • ▶ 34:51 Garry Tan And then, of course, those are sort of the industrial cases, like, you know, you have these giant Tesla robots in the Gigafactory and things like that.

BillionToOne Is Solving One of Biotech’s Hardest Problems · Y Combinator Apr 6, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:52 Jared Friedman Similar to the Tesla super secret plan, the three-step plan to go from like the Roadster to the like HODL three.
  • ▶ 16:52 Jared Friedman Similar to the Tesla super secret plan, the three-step plan to go from like the Roadster to the like HODL three.
  • ▶ 16:52 Jared Friedman Similar to the Tesla super secret plan, the three-step plan to go from like the Roadster to the like HODL three.

OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator Feb 7, 2026 · 1 mention

Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator Jun 19, 2025 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 0:44 Garry Tan So, uh, from SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, XAI, and more, was there ever a moment in your life, uh, before all this where you felt, I have to build something great, and what flipped that switch for you?
  • ▶ 19:22 Elon Musk And, um, Tesla was happening sort of simultaneously, um, like, 2008 was a rough year, uh, because at mid-two 1008, uh, or called summer 2008, um, the third, the third launch of SpaceX had failed, a third failure in a row. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:26 Elon Musk So then we combined, we added Tesla Megapacks and modified the software in the Megapacks to be able to, to smooth out the, uh,
  • ▶ 29:26 Elon Musk So then we combined, we added Tesla Megapacks and modified the software in the Megapacks to be able to, to smooth out the, uh, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:31 Elon Musk Uh, so that, uh, you know, things like, like the Optimus humanoid robot. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:01 Elon Musk Whether we do it or, or, or, you know, whether Tesla does it, you know, Tesla works closely with XAI.

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator Jun 19, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:01 unnamed speaker Please welcome former director of AI, Tesla, Andrei Karpathy.
  • ▶ 4:28 Andrej Karpathy Now, when I was at, uh, Tesla, um, we were working on the, uh, autopilot, and, uh, we were trying to get the car to drive, and I sort of showed the slide at the time where you can imagine that the inputs to the car are on the bottom, and…
  • ▶ 4:28 Andrej Karpathy Now, when I was at, uh, Tesla, um, we were working on the, uh, autopilot, and, uh, we were trying to get the car to drive, and I sort of showed the slide at the time where you can imagine that the inputs to the car are on the bottom, and… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:50 Andrej Karpathy One more kind of analogy I wanted to sort of allude to is I must, I'm not, I'm no stranger to partial autonomy, and I kind of worked on this, I think, for five years at Tesla, and this is also a partial autonomy product and shares a lot of…
  • ▶ 26:02 Andrej Karpathy Like, for example, right there in the instrument panel is the GUI of the autopilot, so it's showing me what the, what the neural network sees and so on, and we have the autonomy slider, where over the course of my tenure there, we did more…

How To Build A Truly Abundant Future · Y Combinator Apr 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator Nov 21, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:12 David Lieb 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 on that do not match what I see on Twitter and X these days.

Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator Jan 6, 2024 · 1 mention

Advantages Of A First-Time Founder · Y Combinator Sep 15, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:31 Harj Taggar Like he started, I think it was a zip to something, then PayPal, but now, you know, now SpaceX and Tesla, but from our own orbit, like we have example, I speak a personal one, um, a friend and former roommate of mine, Eric Wu is the YC…

Elon Musk & The Midwit Meme – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Mar 2, 2022 · 2 mentions

Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator Jun 19, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:02 Jeremy Rossmann So we actually have five years of data, our students getting jobs at Facebook, Google and Tesla and all these great companies.

A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator Apr 3, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 58:21 Austen Allred And I think because it's difficult to measure, and it's so subtle, I mean, if you, for example, if you, like, drive a Model S, and then you go drive a similar cost Jaguar, for example, um, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 58:52 Austen Allred Um, and so Tesla's probably the canonical example of, like, product matters way more than analysts can measure.

Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator Mar 21, 2019 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 10:51 Craig Cannon So, so then I've, I've noticed you filmed a bunch of Tesla videos, right? 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:14 Marques Brownlee the Model S. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:10 Craig Cannon I've been kind of wondering where the EV market will end up going, because the Model Three is also pretty quick. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:36 Craig Cannon Like if you see like professional, you know, like Tesla shoots, like they got it locked down.

After PMF: People, Customers, Sales by Mathilde Collin · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:00 Mathilde Collin Um, but what we did, we did a lot of things from, you know, just a one pager that explain everything about why our business is secure to, um, very early on Tesla started using our product and they wanted to make sure that they were using…

The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 2 mentions

Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator Sep 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:06 Michael Seibel You kind of want to have this almost Tesla experience of just buying a car, but they never actually work out that way.

Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Apr 6, 2018 · 2 mentions

It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo · Y Combinator Jan 24, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:09 Sam Chaudhary And if you're making like one perfect technical system, like, like a Mac book or a Tesla, let's say probably the right strategy is to have like a perfect design for it.

Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2017 · 2 mentions

IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Jul 1, 2017 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 50:58 Juan Benet Uh, and when you could see it with something like SpaceX and Tesla, um, SpaceX and Tesla both went through major, major funding issues, right? 4 times in the scene

Elon Musk : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Sep 15, 2016 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 9:35 Elon Musk Um, yeah, same with Tesla.
  • ▶ 16:03 Elon Musk My time is mostly split, ah, well, it's split between SpaceX and Tesla, and of course, I, I try to spend, um, ah, part of every week at OpenAI. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:39 Elon Musk Um, and then at Tesla, it's working on the model three and, uh, you know, something in the design studio, um, half a day a week, um, dealing with aesthetics and, and, uh, look and feel things. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:39 Elon Musk It's probably about, um, including both X and S.
  • ▶ 18:39 Elon Musk It's probably about, um, including both X and S.
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