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Latest Episodes

49. Shahin Farshchi Ph.D, General Partner at Lux Capital
March 25, 2025

Lux Capital General Partner Shahin Farshchi, PhD, talked with me about his background, Luxs history, and how the firm came to position itself as the leading investor in hard-tech. A focus on outstand

48. Mark Papermaster, CTO and EVP at AMD
February 12, 2025

AMDs Mark Papermaster, CTO and EVP, talked with me about his background, AMDs history, and how the company came to position itself as a bankable supplier with one of the most diverse semiconductor

47. Steve Patton, Americas Automotive Sector Leader at EY
January 28, 2025

Steve Patton shares EYs perspective on how consumer demand and regulations shape the automotive landscape. We touch on Chinese car makers, sustainability, electrification, autonomy and logistics. I

46. CES 2025, Marinated
January 14, 2025

With the advantage of letting a few days pass before collecting my thoughts, two themes came into focus. First, the rise of Chinese auto companies, and the mainstreaming of electric vehicles, autonom

45. Everybody Still Hates Tesla, Part 2
December 20, 2024

Has any company made a bigger impact on the automotive sector in the last decade than Tesla? Love them or hate them, in electrification, auto dealership structure and passenger car autonomy Tesla has

44. Everybody Still Hates Tesla, Part 1
September 26, 2024

Has any company made a bigger impact on the automotive sector in the last decade than Tesla? Love them or hate them, Tesla has masterfully used the extraordinary latitude its been afforded by investo

43. Georges Massing, Head of Automated Driving, Mercedes-Benz AG.
July 30, 2024

Can your AI make life-and-death decisions? Mercedes-Benzs Drive Pilot can. Does your AI vendor take legal responsibility for those life-and-death decisions? Mercedes does. Drive Pilot is the only c

42. The Future of Transportation: Insights from Reilly Brennan of Trucks VC
June 19, 2024

Reilly Brennan, author of the must-read Future of Transportation newsletter and partner at Trucks VC, returns to Tech Cars Machines for a discussion on recent trends in transportation investing. We di

41. Marc Amblard, Managing Director, Orsay Consulting
May 20, 2024

China, EVs, vehicles that are too big and too heavy, autonomy, the future of transportation and lessons from history. We cover hot news and trends in all these sectors with Marc Amblard, Partner at O

40. Savi Baveja, President, 3D Printing & Chief Incubation Officer, HP, Inc.
April 30, 2024

How do you start a new business in a large corporation and quickly scale it to hundreds of millions of revenues? Savi Baveja, President of 3D Printing and Chief Incubation Officer at HP, Inc. told me