RJ (Rivian Founder and CEO)
Appearances
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Bill Burr Returns Again
That's the easiest way of saying it. That's kind of sinister.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Bill Burr Returns Again
I would need an operation. But they will. No, no, no, no, no. So we were doing frog pose and it just it takes time. The thing with flexibility is you can't force it at first. You kind of have to let your body ease into it. And then once your body can ease into it, that's when we figure out how to contract muscles in a certain way. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Bill Burr Returns Again
And then when it lets go, when you let it go, then you fall forward.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Bill Burr Returns Again
Yo, that'd be great. Let's do it. We'll both dress how you're dressing today. We'll do it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Bill Burr Returns Again
I'm not involved, but then somehow, you know, I inherit all the benefits in the inheriting part. Probably not. But I need somebody to be like my camera guy when I'm stretching. Oh. Like, don't want to see my hand photos. I have.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Bill Burr Returns Again
Yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was really into martial arts. The first thing I told my mom of what I wanted to be when I grew up was a Power Ranger. Wow. So then she got me into martial arts and I just stayed. I ended up doing that for a little over 20 years.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Bill Burr Returns Again
You can beat one. Let's do it. Let's find a Power Ranger.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
Well, first, thank you for joining me here. I mean, the story goes way back to me being a kid, and I grew up a massive car enthusiast. And I realized, as I got a little bit older, I realized they were causing so many problems. There you go. And so you first realize they're polluting, so they're causing air quality issues.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
Then you pull the thread, and you're like, oh, it's causing a lot of our global disputes with challenges of accessing oil. Then you pull the thread a little further, and you're like, oh, this is one of the primary contributors to climate change.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
And then I fell into this feeling of like, oh boy, these things I love, is it wrong of me to like cars? And decided I wanted to work on them and be part of the solution to figure out how to make personal transportation and the automobile something that can continue to exist and exist in a positive way. Sure.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
We have a guiding principle that we use in how we make decisions within the business. And some of the hardest decisions you can get, you know, completely sort of twisted around thinking about how to make the decision. And the way we simplify it is we think of it through the lens of our kids, kids, kids.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
And it's helpful both in terms of helping you to identify what are the important pieces. But I find it's incredibly, it's incredibly inviting to all different points of view. And, you know, a lot of the debates and discussion and some of the tension we see, I think, in society today is actually around different tactics on how we create a better world for our kids, kids, kids.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
And I think it's just important to recognize that at least that's a point of commonality. And whether you're on you know, whatever side of the political you're on, different countries, different cultures, everywhere I go, I find that to be really consistent is that We as humanity want a better world for our kids.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
And so when I look at the world as we're in it today, we've got a complete global ecosystem that's been built around fossil fuels that we, this generation, is responsible for driving an inflection point off of that.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
And that was already like an amazing opportunity. Like how lucky are we to be part of the end of what the history books will say many, many years from now, the fossil fuel era.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
I think it's a remarkably exciting, but as you said, a challenging time.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
We're happy to be involved. So thank you. Thank you.