PERSON DIRECTORY
Sarah Guo
Host of No Priors. Sarah Guo appears in 71 indexed conversations across No Priors, Invest Like the Best, Latent Space. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
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Ask DoorDash is shifting demand, with 50% of restaurant-order trajectories reaching new-to-customer venues and grocery baskets roughly 40% larger.DoorDash’s 10 billion delivery history supplies pickup and handoff ground truth for routing DOT, drones and Dashers, but scaling now depends on hardware, operations and supply chains rather than autonomy alone.
AI, R2 and the Future of Everyday Driving | Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe
Rivian’s 2021–22 clean-sheet reset replaced its rules-based autonomy stack with neural networks, making fleet data central to progress through 2029–30.Scaringe puts viable competitors outside China at more than one, less than five, while Rivian’s in-house inference chip targets economical autonomy in every car.R2 starts at $45,000 for the $45,000–$55,000 market, with adoption and rare safety cases still the key tests.
No Priors Ep. 141 | With Sunday Robotics Co-Founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi
Sunday’s differentiated asset is an in-the-wild robotics data engine with almost 10 million long-horizon trajectories from more than 500 people, paired with full-stack hardware and learning iteration.A simplified three-finger robot targets a 2026 in-home beta and possible 2027 or 2028 mass shipping, while reliability, safety, price, manipulation generalization, and the gap between demos and autonomy remain key risks.
Building Hard Tech in Hard Markets: Kyle Vogt on Cruise, Twitch, and The Bot Company
Cruise found a path into autonomy by starting with a narrow retrofit, then pivoting to robotaxis when Uber and Lyft exposed driver labor as the core economic gap, leading to GM’s $1 billion acquisition.Vogt argues Tesla’s profits, remote assistance, and commodity-camera advances can make deployment viable before human-free autonomy, while automotive-grade compute, connectivity, regulation, China’s cost advantage, and robotics’ coming funding wipeout remain risks to monitor.