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Re: Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

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Post by tosssingaway567 »

throwaway1777 wrote: post #53
redredrobot wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually if you pay a little attention to Bezos, it's clear that his focus has been outer space at least since he was a college student. IMO Amazon was an opportunity that Bezos saw while Blue Origin is the fulfillment of his lifelong dream.

So if it’s his dream when does he start actually focusing on it?

Well, it a money burning venture, by making amazon bigger and bigger he is contributing to blue origin.

He funds blue origin with more than a billion $ every year from the sales of his own amazon stock. Without amazon filling his pockets he can't finance blue origin.

He puts more of his money in blue origin every year than the amount amazon will pay for zoox

Re: Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

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Post by lordgrenville »

bosie wrote: post #43
Gatsky wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently he added the ‘Klay’ to his name because he wanted to add a ‘maker’ element to it. I mean, this a bad prognostic sign if there ever was one in an engineering company.

what do you mean by 'add a maker element to it'?

My guess was because you use "clay" to make things? Seems pretty weak.

Re: Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

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Post by goshx »

> Zoox has been by far the most ambitious self-driving tech company as it's been working on developing a fully integrated vehicle, not just the core autonomous technology.

> Zoox planned from the beginning to develop the technology, build a car and operate a robotaxi service. Not even Waymo is trying to bite off that much (although Cruise is).

Is Tesla intentionally omitted or am I missing something?

Re: Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

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Post by smallnamespace »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #70
mFixman wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the most Silicon Valley way of doing things. For one, I'm glad to live in a world where those kind of things still exist.

I'm glad to live in a world where those kind of things still exist. Lying your way to success?

Have you noticed that the Odyssey is one long celebration of doing exactly that?

Re: Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

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Post by dustingetz »

baxtr wrote: post #69
achow wrote: post #49

How did Zoox start? In 2012, Kentley-Klay stumbled on a blog post about Google’s self-driving car project, then pretty much the only one in the field. He saw the company’s prototypes as unsightly half-measures.. Then, one day, he walked into his Melbourne office (animation, video production) and announced he was off to America to fulfill his driverless dreams. In a move that some will call devious and others will cal…

Even if that’s only half of the truth, it makes a great story that people will tell

Even the Obama-Os story is 90% fake, the story PG tells (and is repeated) is not even close to the story that the founder himself told on a startup podcast

Re: Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

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Post by person_of_color »

jedberg wrote: post #58
numpad0 wrote: post #47

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To me the future of SDC tech is clear: General public expects driverless cars, car companies want level 3 automation, Google says there is only level 2 and 4 which is probably right, and the technology is going to stay level 2 for at least better part of next decade if not couple decades. What’s working is Level 4 betas in Level 2 mode with driver monitoring for safety, what I would call a “driving simplification”. “…

I rode in a Zoox car two years ago. It was already at level 3, almost 4. The driver took over once but didn’t even have to. The car was about to do the same thing the driver did, he just got nervous.

Why do you believe that your anecdote will scale to every situation, ever?

Re: Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

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Post by Traster »

baxtr wrote: post #69
achow wrote: post #49

How did Zoox start? In 2012, Kentley-Klay stumbled on a blog post about Google’s self-driving car project, then pretty much the only one in the field. He saw the company’s prototypes as unsightly half-measures.. Then, one day, he walked into his Melbourne office (animation, video production) and announced he was off to America to fulfill his driverless dreams. In a move that some will call devious and others will cal…

Even if that’s only half of the truth, it makes a great story that people will tell

Unfortunately, if you look at his pattern of behaviour, it's probably entirely untrue. It's most likely something he thought would be a good story to tell. It's an exploitation of the silicon valley game - since everyone else is embellishing their stories and achievements you can just make things up entirely and pay no price for it.

Re: Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

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Post by slim »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #70
mFixman wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the most Silicon Valley way of doing things. For one, I'm glad to live in a world where those kind of things still exist.

I'm glad to live in a world where those kind of things still exist. Lying your way to success?

there's a better world out there, believe me. you are alienated by living in such a pool of sharks. you won't believe how relieving it is to live in a world where you can trust people

Re: Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox

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Post by [deleted] »

mFixman wrote: post #59
achow wrote: post #49

How did Zoox start? In 2012, Kentley-Klay stumbled on a blog post about Google’s self-driving car project, then pretty much the only one in the field. He saw the company’s prototypes as unsightly half-measures.. Then, one day, he walked into his Melbourne office (animation, video production) and announced he was off to America to fulfill his driverless dreams. In a move that some will call devious and others will cal…

That's the most Silicon Valley way of doing things. For one, I'm glad to live in a world where those kind of things still exist.

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