Ed Ludlow

There's something there, isn't there?

City versus state, state versus federal.

We will talk about it.

I got a lot of interest when I said that I was going to be speaking with you about

$16 billion is a lot of money, but actually, how will you use it?

There's a tension between scaling operations, the fleet, you know, you've got to have more cars, but also a commitment to invest in technology.

And I wanted to key to how far you thought about how much goes into each of those buckets.

I see the OHI vehicles testing.

If I am a user of the service right now, will I soon be able to actually get into an Ojai?

We just had a huge weekend here in the Bay Area, San Francisco, but Santa Clara Super Bowl.

I, across social media, saw a lot of people reflect on their first experience in a robo-taxi.

Some of them, of course, with Waymo.

Was that a tangible, meaningful moment for the company, these visitors to town?

Yes.

What data, what evidence can we point to on how big a weekend?

Waymo's reputation is growing globally, and we're going to talk about the literal expansion of your operations.

But with this funding round, it's a who's who of investors now on the cap table.

It's a big raise at a premium valuation.

How much of that is sort of setting the pieces in motion to life eventually as a public company?

Is that something that you and Dimitri and the rest of the leadership plan for or is there merit staying as you are now?