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Chris Urmson

Chris Urmson founded Waymo (2009), Aurora Innovation (2017) and Aurora (2017), and previously worked at Google and Waymo.

CEO of self-driving technology company Aurora

3× founder Automotive & Mobility 2009–2017
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Companies founded by Chris Urmson

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2009
WaymoPrivate Founder · Automotive & Mobility
2017
Aurora InnovationPublic Co-founder & CEO · Automotive & Mobility
2017
AuroraPublic Co-founder & CEO · Automotive & Mobility

Co-founders

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Alex Shevchenko
Co-founded Aurora
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Anthony Levandowski
Co-founded Waymo
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Drew Bagnell
Co-founded Aurora Innovation
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Drew Bagnell
Co-founded Aurora
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Sebastian Thrun
Co-founded Waymo
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Sterling Anderson
Co-founded Aurora Innovation
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Sterling Anderson
Co-founded Aurora

Came from

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Where Chris Urmson worked or built before — the roots of the lineage.

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Google Public
Software & IT · USA
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Waymo Private
Automotive & Mobility · USA
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Also came from Waymo

See the Waymo mafia →
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Bryan Salesky
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Dave Ferguson
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Don Burnette
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Jiajun Zhu
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Sebastian Thrun
German-American entrepreneur (born 1967)

Also came from Google

See the Google mafia →
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Abraham Bachrach
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Adam Bry
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Adrian Graham
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Aidan N. Gomez
British-Canadian computer scientist (born 1996/97)
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Amit Sangani
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Andrej Karpathy
Czechoslovak-born AI researcher (born 1986)
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Andrew Boni
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Andrew Conrad
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Andrew Ofstad