Bloomberg Studio 1.0 - Zoox CEO Aicha Evans

Aicha Evans, Zoox CEO, speaks with Emily Chang about her vision to transform transportation with a fleet of robotaxis, why she left Intel to take the top job at Zoox, and how she's tackling this next endeavor for autonomous vehicles.

[@alykane18]

As a Senegalese, I felt so good when I heard she's from Senegal. Amazing to see and very inspiring!

[@TennisGvy]

I love the fact she's realistic with some of her answers. No inflated ego at all

[@lekkerkoffie8605]

She is delusional

[@chrisalmighty]

Aicha understands her objective succinctly summarised into 3 sentences: 1. Execute 2. Get to market 3. Scale. The rest are details. She is such an elegant CEO.

[@lekkerkoffie8605]

Whahahahaha her Zoox project is a waste of time

[@bqx51]

love that she's realistic and genuine!

[@lekkerkoffie8605]

Whahahahahaha insane is what you are

[@sanukurien2752]

I wish I could speak like her. The composure she has, I feel confident just listening to her.

[@rawlo2202]

Zoox first of its kind Amazing can’t wait

[@dexterding4780]

I love her answer to @6:25, she didn't highlight her being a person of colour but who she is as a person. Dear journalist, pls dont make it about color that seems like wants to divide us rather than unite us. I salute you Aicha Evans!

[@PrinceKumar-hh6yn]

She's is so clear in her mind about the things around her domain

[@ArjunSoota]

very good interview

[@Swissas]

Great interview

[@renegarza9]

I really liked how she approached some of the more political and/or race oriented questions from the interviewer. Rather than centering her entire experiences around her identity, she focuses more on her personal merits while also highlighting the importance of her identity, being a black woman in tech, and how she sees it as an advantage by bringing a new perspective to the table. She also brilliantly highlights some of the challenges she’s faced because of her identity while also explaining how she overcame them. Her personality really shines through in this interview. She’s a brilliant woman with an optimistic and solution-oriented outlook and she, no doubt, has a bright future ahead of her. I think I’ve just found me a new idol

[@augustus7055]

I feel this on so many levels.

[@kenjimiwa3739]

Great interview. Aicha looks like a great leader: highly intelligent, eloquent, empathetic, grounded, purpose-driven, and passionate.

[@1QUEENPRECIOUS3]

Inspiring

[@PreludeSon]

Super honest in her answers

[@atha07062]

shes an inspiration

[@ChibiliMugala]

She's my new hero! Like literary.

[@garyugarek2537]

I don't care what anybody says I want one of these for myself and I want to be able to put a specialized license plate on it so I can use it as a pub crawler PBCRWLR HOPEFULLY THE DMV WOULD LET ME DO THAT

[@pleasantsville]

She rolled her eyes so hard when the interviewer mentioned being a black woman in a male dominated industry. She was like….here we go 🙄

[@Far7rom]

Senegalese womenare amazing. And strong. I lived with a Senegalese family for a year. I learned so much from the matriarch of that family she was the head.

[@Far7rom]

It is a very very valid question as I am black professional as well and being the only black face in the room is something you have to embrace. We are taught that we have to be twice as good as pour colleagues in order to be accepted.. and there's some truth to that. It's also a dynamic that most white people have never experienced. And probably couldn't deal with... And for the record black women are doing FAR better than black.men are in both academia and in corporate America. Primarily because black.men are seen more as a threat.

[@pleasantsville]

@@Far7rom I respect this comment.

[@pleasantsville]

@@Far7rom 👏 👏 👏 appreciate you.

[@drunkspartan711]

What about the rural areas? It is quite difficult to get transportation in the country

[@st202295]

Zoox is a future

[@alainkov4616]

This was good....this was inspirational.

[@marykane6525]

Aicha Evans is awe inspiring!

[@123koby]

Can not wait to get in to that vehicle

[@jefsoneg5507]

Such a strong women . ❤️

[@catalinmihaidobre5452]

That factory is full of men.

[@PD-we8vf]

So stunning and brave right? Hahaha

[@RichardSong20]

it's a car... there is no added valued when she say it's not a car.

[@rogerzimmerman304]

Zoox seems like a great product, but development is too slow, and by Aicha's final comment that in 10 years she hopes to have Zoox in several cities, she is setting the bar very low. I think Zoox needs to step up development before the competitors overtake them.

[@maxbrych7354]

What are some competitors they have?

[@Nautical_Cyclist]

Slow and steady growth 📈

[@eranchazan4225]

why did the image with robotic car have a Palestinian flag when Aicha was talking about her son (8:26) ?

[@xiaodongzhao5716]

don't sugarcoat it. It was a fire sale, Zoox raised $1B and sold for $1B, do the math. Zoox never figured out their strength and may have never had one.

[@Reallymiss]

The bad thing is to see so many stupid comments about car vs vehicle. A motorcycle is a vehicle, a bike, a scooter, a boat, a snowmobile all vehicles morons. A Motorcycle is not a car but still a vehicle, Monorail not a car still a vehicle. It does not matter how many wheels it has. If it can transport people or things it’s a vehicle. She’s right stop trying to make her wrong.

[@tommason3372]

She mentioned her race 3 time so far. So annoying. What does that have to do with anything? Give it a break lady. Aicha is just great!

[@chrisalmighty]

I confused the love of cooking and running a restaurant lol

[@valis14]

Love Aicha Evans. Very polished. I don't know why Alice Chung keeps asking/rephrasing race questions to Aicha again and again. 1 or 2 is enough -- why keep beating that drum? As a minority myself in an industry where I am not overly represented, it's a little unnerving to have one's ethnicity overly emphasized. It's no wonder certain segments of the country's voting populace are getting calloused and in the worse case scenarios, even more bigoted. Just keep it professional.

[@hussienalsafi1149]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😊😊😊😊

[@YashSharma-xd5rg]

If u say its not a car therz still bit of car in it.

[@lekkerkoffie8605]

If she really means what she is saying she would invest her time in tram, metro and train public transport and not this.

[@kiberJegna]

Great women

[@KPZivot]

If Zoox is not selling vehicles when are they gona get profitable considering the cost to make a vehicle.

[@Thisnthat979]

Another Jeff Bezos’ pet project

[@TheIncomparableGolfer]

2:36 Zoox sounds confused just like Uber who claims they are "not a transportation company." Big Tech is trying to change the name of transportation just like they are trying with video games and the so called "meta verse"

[@PD-we8vf]

Well the new Supreme Court justice is confused with what a woman is. So Pat for the course in these times.

[@geselleortiz]

MamaI

[@austinzizzi1142]

Could for her but unfortunately lidar will be obsolete soon

[@TryRickPayton]

Go ahead sister girl

[@PD-we8vf]

She instructed employees to steal Tech from Tesla. Read the court documents and settlement. Funny you don’t mention that.

[@sebastienmarie5833]

Nobody knows the French society navya shuttle ? A full l4 shuttle, a MoU with ksa , in Japan with softbank...?

[@Thisnthat979]

They are not making real products anytime soon.

[@opmad5593]

I usually hate, I mean really hate, feminist interviews- they make me want to rip my eyes out. But this was ok. This was pleasant-

[@skinnymoonbob]

Software is more important than hardware. Zoox will not happen. Nice vehicle for a golf course, but not for real traffic. Tesla is doing the right thing.

[@leoperez2566]

They'll license fsd when it's available.

[@PD-we8vf]

@@leoperez2566 this company already stole it from Tesla.

[@collinrussell9765]

No longer interested in Zoox

[@MossMini]

Clicked to learn about Zoox, but got a Woke lesson.

[@leetgamername]

Some people actually like driving. Maybe AI should replace the entire work force and call it a day. So no more family vacations, or driving cross country if you feel like it, etc. What happens if there's an emergency? You wait for one of these cars to take you out of town? Some people like the benefit of having their own car, In my family we've owned over 100 vehicles, and at any given point over 7 cars plus at a time in my immediate family of about 10 adults that can drive. NONE of us ever drove overly drunk, endanger the lives of anyone, or drove so irresponsible as to put others lives in danger.....and that goes for most American families. Just because you have jackasses driving drunk, that doesn't mean ALL ddrivers drive drunk. People do bad crimes with guns and knives everyday, does that mean ALL guns and knives should be outlawed? No because most legal guns owners are responsible and everyone use knives to cook. So how does it make sense to get rid of these items? Well the same can be said for a car man

[@Questra7]

car /kɑː/ noun a four-wheeled road vehicle that is powered by an engine and is able to carry a small number of people.

[@alainkov4616]

they are not in the business of manufacturing and selling the "car" but rather they're building a system that will provide mobility solutions using a vehicle prototype that is different from everything else on the market.

[@PD-we8vf]

@@alainkov4616 yea a car. Get off your syntactic high horse.