Archer Aviation founder and CEO Adam Goldstein stepped up to the Opening Bid Unfiltered podcast mic with Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sozzi to chat about the future of flying. Goldstein shares why he is so passionate about EVTOLs and the next important milestones for Archer Aviation this year. He also discusses a desire to make aircraft for the US government.<br><br>Then, Sozzi chats with one of the more fascinating people in the VC industry Jon McNeill of DVx Ventures. McNeill is the former COO of Lyft, and also worked very closely with Tesla CEO Elon Musk as president in charge of revenue. What did McNeill learn from the billionaire Musk? How will the future of mobility shake out? And what AI upstarts have caught the attention of McNeill.<br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 From Tesla playbook to autonomous GM vehicles: future of mobility

Power Players with Brian Sozzi

Welcome to a new episode of Opening Bid Unfiltered. I'm Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sazi. So excited for my special guest for this episode, Archer Aviation CEO Adam Goldstein. Adam, good to see you. You and I have not talked in a long time, so it's good to have you here on the podcast. I've been following the Archer journey for a while. I've been seeing what you guys are building in the eVTOL space. For those not familiar with Archer, what's the problem you're trying to solve in terms of aviation?

We're really building a next generation aviation company, and it spans across civil and defense. On the civil side, we're building products that are designed to carry a pilot plus four passengers in and around urban environments. So instead of driving on the ground 90 minutes to go, you know, 15, 20, 30 miles, you could fly and you can get there in five to 10 minutes. And so we're really in the business of saving people time, giving people back time, and really trying to help them, you know, enjoy their lives a bit better.

On the defense side, there's a whole new set of applications that we're building. Once aircraft could go electric, there's an ability to really build new applications that solve a lot of the modern day problems. So you can think about this category they call autonomous and attributable, which means unmanned, low cost solutions that can really confront a lot of the modern day challenges that we have.

Take us through some images of what you do, like that, that aircraft, that EVTOL. These are not easy to make by any stretch of the imagination.

From Tesla playbook to autonomous GM vehicles: future of mobility

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From Tesla playbook to autonomous GM vehicles: future of mobility

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.