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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Todays show:
Anand Nandakumar joins Jason to discuss Halo Car’s technology (1:16), remote driving opportunities (12:07), the Cruise incident (35:17), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Anand Nandakumar joins Jason
(1:16) Halo Car's technology and vision for the future
(7:36) Economics and challenges of remote driving services
(10:04) Intercom - TWIST listeners can get 90% off Intercom’s platform at https://www.intercom.com/twist
(12:07) Remote driving job opportunities and cost of living impacts
(14:30) Synergy of remote and self-driving technologies
(19:27) Autonomous vehicle adoption and industry challenges
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(23:07) Economic challenges for autonomous vehicle companies
(30:47) Remote driving technology for consumers
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(35:17) Regulatory issues and performance of autonomous vehicles in different weathers
(41:34) How to experience Halo Car's technology
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| 0:00.0 | If I was Cruz's CEO at that time, I would have probably been extremely honest, extremely |
| 0:06.0 | transparent of what happened up front. |
| 0:08.2 | The minute that happened disclose everything to our DMV regulator right off the bat, |
| 0:13.2 | sit in their office and say, hey, this happened. |
| 0:15.6 | I understand this is not the right move for us. |
| 0:17.8 | This is how we see that going forward. |
| 0:20.0 | How do we work on this together? |
| 0:21.7 | Absolutely. |
| 0:22.6 | Sunlight is the best disinfectant. |
| 0:25.2 | This week in startups is brought to you by InterCom. |
| 0:29.5 | Intercom's AI First Service is the best thing to happen to your customers since you. |
| 0:35.0 | Twist listeners can get 90% off Intercom's platform at Intercom. |
| 0:40.0 | Squist. |
| 0:42.0 | Square space. Turn your idea into a new website. |
| 0:46.0 | Go to Squarespace.com slash twist for a free trial. |
| 0:50.0 | When you're ready to launch, use offer code twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. |
| 0:57.0 | And Assembly AI. Get maximum value from voice data with assembly AI. |
| 1:05.0 | Build powerful products and features for your end users on the industry's leading speech-to-text models. |
| 1:11.0 | Get 100 free hours to start building at assembly AI.com slash twist. |
| 1:17.0 | All right everybody welcome back to this week and start as I've been talking about self-driving |
| 1:20.4 | cars a whole bunch because hey they're starting to become reality but there are |
| 1:26.4 | concerns around safety and so today's guests from HALO car reached out to me |
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