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Our audience gains unparalleled, unfiltered access to the C-Suite executives, founders, and policymakers who are building and regulating the future.
From the founders of unicorn startups to the CEOs of publicly traded companies, our guests join to articulate their vision, defend their strategies, and signal their next moves.
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Founder, The Road to Autonomy & Co-Founder & Co-CEO AUTNMY AI
Grayson Brulte is a visionary strategist and one of the foremost authorities on autonomy, automation, and the emerging Autonomy Economy™. Widely recognized for anticipating what's next, his work sits at the intersection of innovation, policy, and emerging technology, where he serves as a trusted advisor to executive teams throughout the autonomy landscape.
Grayson coined the term Autonomy Economy to describe the convergence of automation, autonomy, commerce, and economic growth. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes, CNN, and The Hollywood Reporter.
Recent Episodes
New episodes every Tuesday. Watch on YouTube, X and Spotify and listen on your favorite podcast platform.
March 4, 2025
Oxa’s Vision for Universal Autonomy: Industrial Mobility Automation
Oxa CEO Gavin Jackson discussed the company's "universal autonomy" approach, focusing on industrial mobility applications in predictable environments like airports, ports, and logistics hubs where their autonomous vehicles achieved a 33% productivity increase compared to human drivers at Heathrow Airport. The episode covered Oxa's business model, partnerships with DHL and BP, and their strategy for scaling autonomous solutions in repetitive industrial environments rather than complex urban driving scenarios.
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February 25, 2025
Ouster’s Vision for Autonomy: LiDAR for Vehicles, Robots and Infrastructure
Ouster CEO Angus Pacala discusses the company's digital LiDAR technology and its applications across autonomous vehicles, robotics, infrastructure, and security systems. The episode covers Ouster's diversified market approach and positioning as a leading Western LiDAR provider since its 2015 founding with a vision of "autonomy for everything."
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February 18, 2025
Trump, China & Autonomous Vehicles: Inside Look at U.S. Transportation Policy
Government Affairs Advisor Finch Fulton discusses the need for a national autonomous vehicle framework under the Trump administration to provide regulatory certainty and counter China's expanding technology exports in areas like robotaxis and AI platforms. The conversation covers how establishing clear federal AV policies could unlock investment, accelerate domestic scaling of autonomous vehicles, and prevent China from maintaining its competitive advantage in the global autonomous transportation market.
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February 11, 2025
Building an Autonomous Transport-as-a-Service Business
Volvo Autonomous Solutions is shifting from selling autonomous trucks to owning and operating them through a transport-as-a-service model, allowing the company to maintain control over the entire ecosystem and safety standards. This approach leverages Volvo's trucking expertise and Aurora partnership to scale autonomous operations while directly understanding customer pain points across applications from highway transport to mining operations.
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February 4, 2025
DeepSeek’s Game-Changing Impact on The Future of Autonomous Driving
DeepSeek's AI model development approach represents an engineering breakthrough that demonstrates powerful models can be built through system optimization and creative resource management rather than massive computational investments. Bot Auto's CEO Xiaodi Hou discusses how this cost-effective methodology parallels their autonomous driving strategy and could accelerate commercialization by prioritizing efficiency over traditional resource-intensive approaches.
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January 28, 2025
Navigating L3, L4 Licensing, and Robotaxi Insurance Challenges
This podcast episode examines the insurance and liability complexities surrounding SAE Level 3 and Level 4 autonomous vehicles, including why major automakers like GM and Ford have shifted focus from full self-driving to driver assistance systems. The discussion covers underwriting challenges for robotaxis, particularly in Las Vegas, and explores the regulatory and responsibility questions that arise as vehicles transition between different levels of automation.
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