Dmitri Dolgov
The a16z Show
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov
- Published
- April 17, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 4m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 24, 2026
Discusses Waymo is now delivering hundreds of thousands of fully autonomous rides each week — but getting ther…
Summary
Waymo is now delivering hundreds of thousands of fully autonomous rides each week — but getting there required more than better models. It meant building a complete system for training, evaluating, and deploying a driver in the real world. In this episode — originally aired on the Cheeky Pint podcast — Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov joins John Collison to bre…
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Waymo is now delivering hundreds of thousands of fully autonomous rides each week — but getting there required more than better models. It meant building a complete system for training, evaluating, and deploying a driver in the real world. In this episode — originally aired on the Cheeky Pint podcast — Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov joins John Collison to break down how self-driving actually works today: from sensor fusion across LiDAR, radar, and cameras, to simulation, “critic” models, and the rol