Interview, Explained

In-depth breakdowns of tech interviews — section-by-section analysis with diagrams, quotes, and insights.

~24 min

The Circuit·2026-11-04

Tekedra Mawakana on why safety, not perfection, is the bar

Tekedra Mawakana· Co-CEO of Waymo

Waymo's co-CEO argues the robotaxi debate is framed wrong: the benchmark is not a flawless machine but the deadly status quo of human driving, and her choices on price, hardware, competition, and jobs all follow from putting safety first.

RoboticsAI SafetyBusiness Strategy

~49 min

Startup School·2026-08-03

Dmitri Dolgov on why a working demo is 1% of the product

Dmitri Dolgov· Co-CEO

Waymo's co-CEO turns two decades of self-driving into a seven-lesson playbook for physical AI, where a working demo is 1% of the work, every added nine of reliability costs roughly 10x, and the real moat is the evals, simulation, and hundreds of millions of autonomous miles backed by publicly audited safety proof.

RoboticsAI InfrastructureAI SafetyMultimodal