Sebastian Thrun
German-American entrepreneur (born 1967)
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Videos Mentioning Sebastian Thrun

Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math | Lex Fridman Podcast #226
Lex Fridman
Mathematician and AI expert who intuitively solved a problem related to robots picking up white noise, but it took him weeks to prove it mathematically.

Emilio Frazzoli, CTO, nuTonomy - MIT Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
Mentioned for his TED talks about road safety and reducing accidents due to human error.

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam
Y Combinator
A pioneer in self-driving car technology, whose quote about the high value of self-driving engineers is mentioned.

Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots | Lex Fridman Podcast #37
Lex Fridman
A researcher in AI and robotics, co-founder of Google X and Udacity, mentioned as someone working on ambitious projects like flying cars.

Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #73
Lex Fridman
Mentioned as someone Andrew Ng pitched the idea of starting Google Brain to, based on the conviction from Adam Coates's work on scale.

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #59
Lex Fridman
Co-founder of Udacity, CEO of Kitty Hawk, leader in autonomous vehicles and AI education, and former professor at Stanford.

Oliver Cameron (CEO, Voyage) - MIT Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
Founder of Udacity and the Google self-driving car project; he pioneered MOOCs and taught AI classes online.

Drago Anguelov (Waymo) - MIT Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
A pioneer in autonomous driving and robotics, who founded Waymo (formerly Google's self-driving car project).

Steve Jurvetson Interview | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
Runs Udacity, and is mentioned in context of online deep learning courses.