Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
3/17/20261 hr 16 min
(0:00) Travis Kalanick: Officially exiting stealth mode, what he's been working on
(5:52) How to automate the physical world, markets to go after
(11:00) Return to self-driving: Tesla, Waymo, and the autonomous race
(16:17) Leaving Los Angeles for Austin, the decline of truth and justice in California
(25:51) Actuators, robot hands, "Capital as a weapon," Middle East SWF impacted by Iran War
(36:00) Michael Dell: Dorm room to $140B in annual revenue, why Texas attracts founders
(43:46) Dell's $50B AI infrastructure bet
(1:03:50) Invest America: Michael Dell's $6.25B gift - A 401k from birth for 25M kids
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First 90 secondsJason Calacanis· Host0:00
I don't know if some of you knew I was an angel investor in some companies. [laughs] On the count of three, what's my favorite angel investment of all time? One, two, three.
David Friedberg· Host0:09
Uber.
Jason Calacanis· Host0:10
Thank you. Give it up, Travis Kalanick.
David Friedberg· Host0:12
[clapping] Woo!
Jason Calacanis· Host0:18
[clapping] Appreciate you. All right. Wow. Um, on a big news day, Travis is here on a very big news day. You've spent, uh, wow, I guess like seven years just in the lab building. Last year... Every year I ask you, "Hey, you wanna come to the All-In Summit? You wanna..." You say, "Nah," it's like, "I'm gonna just chill, I'm building." Next year, "Hey, you know, it's always available to you."
Travis Kalanick· Guest0:45
I'm like, "No, you don't understand, I'm stealth."
Jason Calacanis· Host0:46
[laughs] Stealth. "I'm stealth. Nobody knows where I am. Nobody knows what I'm doing. The employees are not allowed to put the name of the company on their LinkedIn."
Travis Kalanick· Guest0:54
Thousands of employees that weren't allowed to put the company name on LinkedIn.
Jason Calacanis· Host0:59
I mean, incredible. And I, I'm like, "Okay," and- Their parents thought they worked for the CIA. Yeah. And then he's like, "And by the way, J-Cal, you can invest, you can't announce it, and you have to sign an agreement you can't mention you're an investor." [laughs] It's like, "Okay, no problem. I'm just happy to be on the cap table."
Travis Kalanick· Guest1:13
Is he, like, kinda like secret saying what he wasn't supposed to say right there?
Jason Calacanis· Host1:17
Yeah, right. Now, now it's all above board.
Travis Kalanick· Guest1:19
And now he's doing it. Did that just happen?
Jason Calacanis· Host1:20
No.
Travis Kalanick· Guest1:21
Okay.
Jason Calacanis· Host1:21
Well, you came- It's like, "Oh, you're out now.
Travis Kalanick· Guest1:22
[beep] it, let's go."
Jason Calacanis· Host1:23
You're out. It's out.
Travis Kalanick· Guest1:24
Okay.
Jason Calacanis· Host1:24
You, you came out of stealth today. Um- It's so funny.
Travis Kalanick· Guest1:28
Okay, yeah.
Jason Calacanis· Host1:28
It's so great. You came out of