Episode Clips

"The Design in California and Made in China dynamic, what that's trying to capture really is that there's this aspect of taste and product love."

"I would say probably  within the next three to five year horizon, we will see humanoid robots in homes that are actually doing tasks."

"So when AI does it, we get mesmerized. But when things that are trivial for us, if robot makes a mistake, we immediately think of them as stupid."

"A company like Amazon is able to afford the cost at which it is today and still bake that in to their unit economics."

"How do you create that thing where you think, "This is friendly robot"? And it has to be obvious the moment you look at it or the moment they start speaking."

"A voice feature for a robot can be very unpleasant or very pleasant depending on the taste of the person creating it."

"The regulatory burden is really, really low. And that's part of how you can iterate so quickly."

"The sea is definitely a harsh mistress. In the desert, if you're flying, you have to deal with some sand. The sea wants to corrode everything."

"Ground Effect is awesome because as you scale your wing span, you get a lot more benefit out of it. I have visions for 300 ton vehicle and you can go bigger."

"One use case that like very much excites me is this ability to speak with whales and dolphins."

"The last 20 years, the United States and much of the world is focused on desert wars, right? Not to quote Dune but we don't need desert power. We need water power."

"There's a wreck off the coast of Colombia that has about 20 billion dollars of emerald and gold on board."

"Geoengineering is just going to be a necessity for this century. It just gets so clear we're not going to meet any of our targets."

"I think that what founders should be doing is instead of talking about my actual business, why don't I talk about something that interests me that ties into this greater narrative of how what I'm building will change the world."

"Netflix is going to make full series based off a prompt. Or actually, it will self-generate based on your interests, what you want to see."

"Using AI does not mean you've created a shortcut from A to B. You should be applying the same amount of thought and care that you would if you were going to make this image yourself."

"I would say photo-real is usually the way to go just because it keeps it more grounded. And when they show it to a high ranking official, for example, they can connect to that more."

"We call it like the grandma rule. It should make sense to a grandma, she should be able to get it."

"I wish that founders could just approach talking about what they're doing with that mindset that it doesn't have to land perfectly. It just needs to be authentically you."