Ed Ludlow

That's a lot of money.

What does it unlock for Waymo over the next 12, 24 months?

I should point out, you know, we reported Alphabet will account for the vast majority of that 16 billion.

But it is interesting.

Sequoia Capital, DST, Dragoneer, they are new investors.

What do we interpret from that, that they came in at this stage of the company's life?

You set the scene for expansion across 20 cities this year.

Right now, you're doing 400,000 paid rides a week across six cities.

It's a greater scale than when you and I talked more than a year ago, which seemed to be a time of pace then.

What's the biggest challenge of operating a robo taxi service at that new scale that you're developing?

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.