We spent three years building the rendering engine before we had a product. Most startups would have died. But we knew if we got the foundation right, everything else would follow.
The surgery itself takes about 15 minutes with the robot. The hard part is the decade of engineering that makes those 15 minutes possible.
A snail is currently faster than a tunnel boring machine. We intend to defeat the snail in a race.
The key to making tunnels affordable is making them smaller. A car is about 6 feet wide. Why are we boring 28-foot tunnels?
Our vehicle weighs 1,200 pounds and goes 25 miles per hour. If something goes wrong, you get a dented fender, not a funeral.
Every state has its own licensing board with its own database in its own format. We built connectors to all of them. It was as fun as it sounds.
We don't do acquisitions. We build everything ourselves. That's slower, but it means everything actually works together.
We built a chip with 2.6 trillion transistors. The next largest has 80 billion. We're not incrementally better. We're architecturally different.
The press has 8 tons of force. Eight tons. More than a Tesla Model S weighs. That engineering is real. That engineering cost $120 million.
Hudson Yards is 28 acres built on top of running trains. We had to construct a platform over an active rail yard before laying a single brick. Nobody else wanted to touch it. That is exactly why we did.
I spent 13 years at Qualcomm working on systems that process millions of operations per second. Then I looked at blockchain doing 15 transactions per second and thought — this is embarrassingly slow. I knew how to fix it.
I was the chief engineer on the Tesla Model S. I know what Tesla does well. I also know where they cut corners. Lucid is what happens when you don't cut corners.
516 miles of EPA-rated range. No other EV comes close. That's not a marketing claim — it's physics. Our powertrain is the most efficient on the planet, and the numbers prove it.
I am an engineer at heart. The best product wins. That is what I tell every team at Google. If we build the best AI, everything else follows.
Engineering is the most creative profession in the world. Artists make things that look good. Engineers make things that work.
At Mach 5 the aircraft skin reaches 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. The Concorde flew at Mach 2 and could not make it work. We are flying at Mach 5.
A mattress in a box that arrives at your door sounds simple. Getting the foam right took years of engineering.
Biology can be programmed like software. That's not a metaphor — it's literally what we do.
I write code every week. I'm a CTO. That's what CTOs should do.
I'm an engineer. I understand how these plants work. That's why I can buy what others won't — I know what they're actually worth.
Growing up near Cape Canaveral taught me that impossible engineering problems are solvable. You just need the right people and enough time.
I was the chief engineer of the Tesla Model S. Then I set out to build something better. The Lucid Air is that something.
I am an engineer by training. I approach businesses the way an engineer approaches a bridge — I need to understand every load-bearing element.
The best companies are built by engineers who hate the tools they’re forced to use and decide to build something better.
The articulated steering design lets all four wheels stay planted on uneven ground. That engineering decision in the 1960s is still the foundation of every Versatile tractor today.
I am an engineer. I build things. The fact that what I build now is made of capital instead of concrete does not change how I think about it.
The technology is not the hard part. The hard part is making the technology work in every situation a human driver would encounter.
We replaced 200 pounds of physical weights with electromagnets. The physics is simple. The engineering is insanely hard.
I spent a decade at Qualcomm making systems fast. Blockchain is just another system to make fast.
Blockchains should be as fast as the hardware allows. Anything less is a design failure.
I wrote the Yellow Paper because Vitalik had the vision but someone needed to write the spec.
I build with Rust because I don't trust software that doesn't protect against its own bugs.
Build blockchains the way you build bridges — with rigorous engineering and zero tolerance for collapse.
Peer review isn't slow. It's thorough. The crypto industry would break fewer things if it tried breaking fewer things.
The engineer who builds the bridge matters more than the architect who draws it.
At Facebook I learned that engineering culture is the product. If your engineers are exceptional, the decisions they make will be exceptional too.
I originally liked creating new things, from zero to one.