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Anthony Levandowski (born March 15, 1980) is a French-American self-driving car engineer. [1] In 2009, Levandowski co-founded Google's self-driving car program, known as Waymo, and was a technical lead until 2016.
Tekedra Mawakana is an American businesswoman and lawyer and is the co-chief executive officer of Waymo.Previously, she was the company's chief operating officer, and prior employers have included Steptoe & Johnson, AOL, Yahoo!, and eBay.
Waymo is run by co-CEOs Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov. [20] The company raised US$5.5 billion in multiple outside funding rounds [21] by 2022 and raised $5.6 billion funding in 2024. [22] Waymo has or had partnerships with multiple vehicle manufacturers, including Stellantis, [23] Mercedes-Benz Group AG, [24] Jaguar Land Rover, [25] and ...
John F. Krafcik (born September 18, 1961) was the CEO of Waymo from 2015 to 2021. Krafcik was the former president of TrueCar and president and CEO of Hyundai Motor America.He was named CEO of Google's self-driving car project in September 2015. [1]
Chris Urmson is a Canadian engineer, academic, and entrepreneur known for his work on self-driving car technology. He cofounded Aurora Innovation, a company developing self-driving technology, in 2017 and serves as its CEO. [1]
Russell grew up in Newport Beach, California. [2] At age 15, Russell applied for his first patent for a groundwater recycling system to reuse water from sprinklers. [5] When he was 15, Russell's parents introduced him to laser entrepreneur Jason Eichenholz, who became Russell's mentor and later joined Luminar as co-founder [6] and chief technology officer.
The company was founded by engineers of Google's self-driving car project, Waymo. Zhu served as the principal software engineer and Ferguson joined in 2011 as the principal machine learning engineer. [4] [5] Zhu and Ferguson left Waymo in 2016 and founded Nuro that September. [6]
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