The Minutes of Bill Gurley on automation https://minutesof.com/bill-gurley/on/automation/ Everything Bill Gurley has said on automation: 9 verbatim quotes between August 2025 and March 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:00 +0000 Gurley notes more bank tellers exist today than forty years ago despite ATMs. https://minutesof.com/q/a31ebbcc-002e-48d4-b85b-ce0d5d10650f/ https://minutesof.com/q/a31ebbcc-002e-48d4-b85b-ce0d5d10650f/ “There's still people working in banks today despite the fact that the ATM There've been studies that say there's more bank tellers today than there were like forty years ago.” — Mighty Pursuit Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:49:15 +0000 automation Gurley says Xiaomi uses one-third the employees per car; predicts one-sixth in ten years. https://minutesof.com/q/35d9a346-58f3-49a1-8f13-0afab73e67b6/ https://minutesof.com/q/35d9a346-58f3-49a1-8f13-0afab73e67b6/ “The Xiaomi factory was a third, based on some numbers I was able to acquire, a third the number of employees per car output.” — Tim Ferriss Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:45:52 +0000 automation Gurley predicts reshored manufacturing will bring hundreds of thousands of jobs, not millions, due to automati https://minutesof.com/q/fb9d38d0-66da-4ae9-b3bb-5d1afc8872fe/ https://minutesof.com/q/fb9d38d0-66da-4ae9-b3bb-5d1afc8872fe/ “And so you could calculate the total number of jobs you'd be bringing back if you brought back all this car production and it'd be hundreds of thousands. It's not millions and millions of jobs.” — Tim Ferriss Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:45:52 +0000 automation Gurley reports Xiaomi factory makes one thousand cars daily with two thousand employees versus six in US. https://minutesof.com/q/517d4f44-e4e5-42bd-92a0-90a33cd2c473/ https://minutesof.com/q/517d4f44-e4e5-42bd-92a0-90a33cd2c473/ “The factory makes a thousand cars a day with 2,000 employees. It was highly automated, like really highly automated.” — Bg2 Pod Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:51:07 +0000 automation Gurley reports Xiaomi factory produces one car per day per two employees versus six in the US. https://minutesof.com/q/c179eb55-6e01-44cd-b4b1-1354df26c5b9/ https://minutesof.com/q/c179eb55-6e01-44cd-b4b1-1354df26c5b9/ “Let's say they took it to a thousand employees for a thousand cars. That'd be employed per car per day. That number is like at six in The US.” — Bg2 Pod Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:51:07 +0000 automation Gurley argues bringing manufacturing jobs back may be futile because automation will eliminate them anyway. https://minutesof.com/q/94a07fe8-e85a-4ee8-aa93-298afc0bb19d/ https://minutesof.com/q/94a07fe8-e85a-4ee8-aa93-298afc0bb19d/ “Like, if you wanna bring the jobs back there by the time you get the jobs back, there may not be any jobs. Like like at one Because of automation.” — Bg2 Pod Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:51:07 +0000 automation Gurley predicts global car manufacturing employment could drop to 400 total jobs due to automation. https://minutesof.com/q/cd3be90b-3237-4bf1-849c-7bc5d071aca3/ https://minutesof.com/q/cd3be90b-3237-4bf1-849c-7bc5d071aca3/ “Like like at one Because of automation. The entire global, you know, potential for car manufacturing in five or ten years from now could be like 400 total.” — Bg2 Pod Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:51:07 +0000 automation Gurley reports Xiaomi factory produces thousand cars daily with 2,000 employees versus six per car in US. https://minutesof.com/q/cea300ed-652f-4f9d-8396-b5ddd908a188/ https://minutesof.com/q/cea300ed-652f-4f9d-8396-b5ddd908a188/ “The factory makes a thousand cars a day with 2,000 employees. It was highly automated, like really highly automated.” — BG2 Pod Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:39:23 +0000 automation Gurley warns bringing manufacturing jobs back may be futile as automation eliminates those positions. https://minutesof.com/q/b6e4a83f-9ef0-4590-891e-38a4f7bab26f/ https://minutesof.com/q/b6e4a83f-9ef0-4590-891e-38a4f7bab26f/ “Like, if you wanna bring the jobs back there by the time you get the jobs back, there may not be any jobs. Like like, at one Because of automation.” — BG2 Pod Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:39:23 +0000 automation