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Before I wanted to be a podcaster, before I wanted to be a journalist, I wanted to be a millionaire. Let's just say that I decided to go a different route in my career.

Apparently I should have founded a self-driving car startup.

Earlier this season we talked about the wave of big dollar investments in autonomous tech that began a few years ago.

As a journalist it seems like there's a new deal to cover every few days.

We even have a section in our weekly mobility report

newsletter dedicated to investments. A lot of this money comes from venture

capital. The initial funding startups need to, well, get started up.

Every product you use, every service that you employ in your life started as an idea in someone's head and they

turned that idea with a lot of sweat, a lot of tears, a lot of a into the business and service you use today

it creates it takes a credit incredible amount of

ingenuity and and tenacity and And so companies like ours and venture capital generally is the first

money into these companies to give them the resources to build out that product or service that you one day will hopefully use.

My name is Jim Adler. I am the founding managing director of Toyota AI Venture.

I'm a serial entrepreneur.

I tend to do a startup and then I rest and then I do a startup and I rest.

We've spent a lot of time in this podcast talking to entrepreneurs and inventors.

I hopped on the phone with Adler to talk about what it's like to be across the table from a startup pitching their next big idea.

And as a former entrepreneur himself,

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