Ed Ludlow

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?

Let's talk about the growth.

A lot of people just want to understand in some of those cities where people are frustrated because the service doesn't exist.