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The Last 50 Ft
The Last 50 Feet where the physical world catches up to the hype. We cover what actually happens when autonomous vehicles, robots, and AI-powered logistics hit the pavement — at grocery stores, retail properties, QSR drive-throughs, and the last hundred feet of every delivery. No lab demos. The infrastructure, the deals, the operators making it real. Brought to you by Autolane — the platform coordinating autonomous vehicles and robotics on private property, one zone at a time.
Episodes
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Ep 25 | Saimah Chaudhry, How Zevo Is Putting EVs in the Hands of Gig Workers
Saimah Chaudhry, Co-Founder of Zevo, joins Cam on The Last 50 Ft to break down the EV car sharing marketplace built for gig workers. Saimah explains how Zevo…
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Ep #24 I Chef Paul Iglesias, From Dominos Delivery To Michelin Recognition In Oakland
Oakland chef and owner Paul Iglesias (Parche, Jaji) discusses the future of intentional hospitality, the realities of running modern restaurants, and his…
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Ep #23I Alex Norman, The First Fifty Feet of Drone Delivery with Matternet
Most people picture drone delivery as the flight. Alex Norman, COO of Matternet, says the hardest part happens before takeoff, when an order has to get from…
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Ep #22I Chef Nelson German, From Nightclub Dreams to Culinary Triumphs
What started as a joke about opening a nightclub turned into a career in the kitchen. Chef Nelson German, the chef behind alaMar and Sobre Mesa in Oakland and…
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Ep #21 I Hamei Hamedi, From Restaurant Owner With Mini Donkeys, to Autonomous Delivery
Before Autolane, Hamei spent 15 years in hospitality and ran his own restaurant. In this episode he talks about what delivery apps did to restaurant margins…
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Ep #20 I David Richer, CEO of Orbital Kitchens: Sold 70,000 Chicken Wings in Six Hours. One Bad Payment Made Him Build His Own Delivery Fleet
David Richer, founder of Orbital Kitchens, joined Ben and Cam this week. While most pandemic-era ghost kitchens collapsed, Richer's flagship Union Square…
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Ep #19 I Garrett McCurrach, Founder of Pipedream Labs: Why Your Next Delivery Comes From Underground
Garrett McCurrach, founder of Pipedream Labs, joins the show to talk about the underground pipe network he's building to move food and packages straight to the…
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Ep #18I Van Tucker From CMG And Ai Wrangler, How a Cowboy Entrepreneur Built AI Tools From The Frontier
Van Tucker has spent over two decades at the intersection of technology, creativity, and commerce. He's helped brands like Nike and Disney and is currently…
The Last 50 FtEp #17 | Angell Tsang, Co-Founder of Tso Chinese: Customers Over Clicks, Eliminating Spreadsheets, and Going Live After Skepticism
Angell Tsang is the Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer of Tso Chinese Takeout and Delivery, Autolane's first autonomous delivery partner in Austin. He is also the…
The Last 50 FtEp #16 | Michelle Kwok, Partner at Draper VC: Bag of Organs, Kazoo Guitar Duets, and Why She Bet on Autolane When Nobody Else Got It
Fair warning. This one goes places. Michelle Kwok is a partner at Draper VC and one of Autolane's earliest investors. She led the pre-seed round when most VCs…
The Last 50 FtEp #15 | Producer Kyle Takes the Mic: The Tso Launch Breakdown, the Georgia Food Tampering Bill, and Why Women Are Autonomous Delivery's Earliest Adopters
Cam is on a ferry somewhere in the San Juan Islands celebrating his anniversary. So this week it is just Ben and Producer Kyle, and it might be the most honest…
The Last 50 FtEp #14.5 | Shane Feldberg, Founder of Feld Ventures: First Check Into Autolane, the Shirky Principle, and Why Whoever Passes Is an Idiot
Shane Feldberg was the very first person to ask for allocation in Autolane. Shane runs Feld Ventures, a fund he built over six years from a network he…
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Ep #14 | Ming Maa, Co-Founder and CEO of Moove AV: The Man Who Scaled Grab to 500 Cities Says the Car Is Only 30% of the AV Cost
Ming Maa started his career at Goldman Sachs. Then he went to SoftBank where he sat alongside Masa Son and ran every major ride share investment globally…
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Ep #13 | Alex Roy, Host of Autonocast: Autolane Is Built to Win, the 1946 Elevator Strike, and Austin Goes Live
Alex Roy has been covering autonomous vehicles longer than almost anyone. Ten years hosting the Autonocast, widely regarded as the top podcast in autonomy…
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Ep #12 | Harry Campbell, Host of the Driverless Digest: The Rideshare Guy Got in a Waymo and Everything Changed
Harry Campbell has spent over a decade as the most trusted voice for Uber and Lyft drivers. He built The Rideshare Guy into a media brand reaching millions of…
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Ep #11 | Jonas Lamis, Founder of Remount: Tesla Is Producing 50 Cybercabs a Day, Regular People Can Now Own a Fleet, and a Salt Lamp Is on the Line
Jonas Lamis has spent 20 years building on the frontier. First in AI data analysis. Then in web3. Now he is six weeks into Remount, a platform designed to let…
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Ep #10 | David Moss, Coast to Coast FSD Driver: The Man Who Drove Coast to Coast on 100% Tesla FSD, Called Live from a Supercharger in Wyoming
We did not plan for this one to start from a supercharger in Rawlings, Wyoming in the middle of nowhere. David Moss did not plan for any of this either. David…
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Ep #9 | Jeremy McCool, Founder and CEO of HEVO: Killing the Plug, Wireless EV Charging, $132K in Savings Per Vehicle, and Autolane's Austin Launch
Joining the conversation is Jeremy McCool, founder and CEO of HEVO. Jeremy and his Brooklyn-based team have spent more than a decade making wireless EV…
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Ep #8 | ICSC Recap, The Locker Goes Live, and the Cybercab Stat That Will Blow Your Mind
A quick but loaded one this week. Ben and Cam just got back from ICSC Las Vegas and they are still buzzing. Ben recaps his panel on The Self-Driving Economy…
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Ep #7 | Brittain Ladd, Former Amazon Executive: The Smart Locker Debut, Austin Delivery This Summer, and the Man Who Predicted It All
We recorded this one live from the ICSC showroom floor in Las Vegas before the expo hall even opened. No studio. No chairs. Just Ben, Cam, and a very special…
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Ep #6 | Waymo and Uber - Beefing? Here's What the Numbers Actually Tell You.
Uber just reported 3.6 billion rides in Q1 at a $160 billion market cap. Waymo is valued at $125 billion doing 2 million rides a month. Those two numbers are…
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Ep #5 | Emergency at Lenox Square: Waymo Chaos
Simon Property Group reached out to Autolane in a panic. Waymos were flooding the valet lanes at Lenox Square in Buckhead, Atlanta, one of the most valuable…
The Last 50 FtEp #4 | Ethan McKenna, Creator of RobotaxiTracker.com: The 18-Year-Old Who Knows More About Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Than Tesla Will Admit
What happens when an 18-year-old Austin native gets obsessed with autonomous vehicles and decides to build the most accurate robotaxi tracking system in the…
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Ep #3 | Tesla's Wolf Is Here: Cybercab, FSD, and What the Q1 Earnings Call Really Means
Hot off the Tesla Q1 2026 earnings call, Ben and Cam break down what actually matters for the future of autonomous commerce. FSD subscriptions hit 1.3 million…
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Ep. #1 | Why We Started Autolane
Autonomous vehicles are already on the roads. But what happens when they arrive? In this intro episode, Autolane co-founder & CEO Ben Seidl sits down with Head…
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Ep. #2 | Sam Lerdahl, Co-Founder of Buncha: Why Grocery Delivery Is Harder Than Amazon Made It Look
Amazon built a warehouse and changed the rules. Now every grocery store, retailer, and QSR is scrambling to catch up — and the last 50 feet is where it gets…