Tesla’s New Roadster Can Fly & McKinsey is Sending AI Avatars to Interview Candidates

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Good Morning Brew Daily show. I'm Neal Freyman.

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And I'm Toby Howell.

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Today, Tesla revealed a flying car.

Toby Howell (0:32)

Ben, McKinsey thinks the best way to screen candidates is to make them talk to AI.

It's Friday, October 16th. Let's ride.

Neal Freyman (0:44)

My plan right after we finish recording the show is to buy a ticket to You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder's documentary about Elizabeth Holmes that's being released in theaters today.

Wish me luck. This movie, despite being nearly three hours long, looks pretty booked up at every theater in the city. Not that it's surprising, Holmes, who founded the blood testing startup Theranos before it crashed and burned, has maintained her grip on American culture like few other fraudsters, and Fielder might be the only working comedian who can match her awkwardness and mystique. Toby, the movie has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which I think is good. Every review is rapturous. You have to assume it's going to be excellent and very bizarre.

Toby Howell (1:23)

This is one of those movies that your cinephile coworkers, Neal included, won't stop talking about, so I might have to go see it just so I can participate in the discourse. I have seen some rumors about what will go down, but apparently Amanda Seyfried, who plays Holmes in a Hulu docu-series, also plays a big role in this movie. And Holmes might not even be the most interesting character in the documentary. Billy Evans, her partner, has some jaw-dropping scenes from what I have seen.

All I know is there's gonna be a lot of Elizabeth Holmes costumes come Halloween time. She's back in the zeitgeist for sure.

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In order to add some freshness to a stale vehicle line up, Tesla unveiled a flying car.

Literally, at an event in Texas last night, CEO Elon Musk showcased the next generation Roadster, which performed aerial feats you wouldn't typically expect of an automobile. In a move reminiscent of a Simone Biles vault, it climbed up a steep ramp before flipping and twisting for a controlled landing on the ground. Then it flew over multiple cars in Tesla's existing vehicle line up. Another stunt showed how, when it's on the ground, the Roadster can go pretty dang fast. Tesla showed a video of the two-seater going from zero to 60 miles per hour in less than one second. The new Roadster was the prince that was promised way back in 2017, but numerous delays had pushed the release to nearly a decade later. In many ways, the sports car is a nod to the early days at Tesla. The OG Roadster, launched in 2008, was the company's first ever product. And at a time when Tesla is full steam ahead on autonomy, the new Roadster emphasizes human driving, which seems so quaint. Musk said the Roadster would ultimately be the only manually driven car that Tesla makes. By Musk's own admission, the Roadster is more an attempt at what your marketing friends call brand lift, rather than something that will materially contribute to the bottom line. The addressable market for the car, which is rumored to cost more than $250,000, is not big, and Tesla won't make it in significant quantities. However, as Tesla pivots toward a robotics and AI future, it wants to remind you it still makes cars with mind-blowing tech, cars that still account for the majority of its revenue and profits. Toby, taking the Roadster out for a joy ride, or should I say joy flight?