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Re: Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO

#11

Post by askafriend »

Fricken wrote: post #8
sofon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Kentley-Klay, 43, is an improbable entrant into the crowded race to develop self-driving cars. He has no engineering degree, no background in computer science. Through his early 30s, he was a successful artist and designer—creating music videos and ads for major companies like McDonald’s and Birds Eye frozen vegetables." https://www.forbes.com/feature/zoox-autonomous-cars-taxis/#1... "In a move that some will call d…

Tim has lots of experience in business and tech. From scratch he built a self driving car company valued at $3.2 billion, whose autonomous OS is outperforming efforts from major automakers and tech companies and with a fraction of the resources. Zoox has gotten to where they are now on about $300 million. Others have spent far more and have a lot less to show for it.

Your comment history suggests that you have some relationship with Zoox that you're not disclosing.

You've commented on Zoox several times before in an overly enthusiastic manner. You've also commented several times before on autonomy and your comments have been called out for astroturfing in a couple of instances.

Readers please beware and take this comment with a grain of salt.

Re: Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO

#12

Post by Zhenya »

Fricken wrote: post #8
sofon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Kentley-Klay, 43, is an improbable entrant into the crowded race to develop self-driving cars. He has no engineering degree, no background in computer science. Through his early 30s, he was a successful artist and designer—creating music videos and ads for major companies like McDonald’s and Birds Eye frozen vegetables." https://www.forbes.com/feature/zoox-autonomous-cars-taxis/#1... "In a move that some will call d…

Tim has lots of experience in business and tech. From scratch he built a self driving car company valued at $3.2 billion, whose autonomous OS is outperforming efforts from major automakers and tech companies and with a fraction of the resources. Zoox has gotten to where they are now on about $300 million. Others have spent far more and have a lot less to show for it.

Hi Tim!

Re: Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO

#14

Post by jamestimmins »

sofon wrote: post #7
theCricketer wrote: post #5

"Without a warning, cause or right of reply the board fired me".. There is more from Tim Kentley's twitter: https://twitter.com/TimKentleyKlay He just posted a bunch of messages he got from his team at Zoox. Seems like a lot of employees really liked him and his leadership.

"Kentley-Klay, 43, is an improbable entrant into the crowded race to develop self-driving cars. He has no engineering degree, no background in computer science. Through his early 30s, he was a successful artist and designer—creating music videos and ads for major companies like McDonald’s and Birds Eye frozen vegetables." https://www.forbes.com/feature/zoox-autonomous-cars-taxis/#1... "In a move that some will call d…

I'm curious how likely it is that driving sequence (on real roads, not the track) from the Bloomberg video is as real as it looks. If so, is that impressive? It certainly looks more advanced than other demos that have come out, but it's unclear what they didn't include in the video.

Re: Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO

#15

Post by sofon »

Fricken wrote: post #8
sofon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Kentley-Klay, 43, is an improbable entrant into the crowded race to develop self-driving cars. He has no engineering degree, no background in computer science. Through his early 30s, he was a successful artist and designer—creating music videos and ads for major companies like McDonald’s and Birds Eye frozen vegetables." https://www.forbes.com/feature/zoox-autonomous-cars-taxis/#1... "In a move that some will call d…

Tim has lots of experience in business and tech. From scratch he built a self driving car company valued at $3.2 billion, whose autonomous OS is outperforming efforts from major automakers and tech companies and with a fraction of the resources. Zoox has gotten to where they are now on about $300 million. Others have spent far more and have a lot less to show for it.

Valued at 3.2B USD, by investors who have just fired him...

It's a sign of how crazy things are when 300M USD can be considered a small amount of money to spend on technology development (particularly for a product that doesn't actually require anything inherently very-very expensive, aside from staffing costs).

Re: Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO

#16

Post by pentagonpapers »

askafriend wrote: post #11
Fricken wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tim has lots of experience in business and tech. From scratch he built a self driving car company valued at $3.2 billion, whose autonomous OS is outperforming efforts from major automakers and tech companies and with a fraction of the resources. Zoox has gotten to where they are now on about $300 million. Others have spent far more and have a lot less to show for it.

Your comment history suggests that you have some relationship with Zoox that you're not disclosing. You've commented on Zoox several times before in an overly enthusiastic manner. You've also commented several times before on autonomy and your comments have been called out for astroturfing in a couple of instances. Readers please beware and take this comment with a grain of salt.

Mmmmmmmmm ad hominem much?

Re: Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO

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Post by Fricken »

askafriend wrote: post #11
Fricken wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tim has lots of experience in business and tech. From scratch he built a self driving car company valued at $3.2 billion, whose autonomous OS is outperforming efforts from major automakers and tech companies and with a fraction of the resources. Zoox has gotten to where they are now on about $300 million. Others have spent far more and have a lot less to show for it.

Your comment history suggests that you have some relationship with Zoox that you're not disclosing. You've commented on Zoox several times before in an overly enthusiastic manner. You've also commented several times before on autonomy and your comments have been called out for astroturfing in a couple of instances. Readers please beware and take this comment with a grain of salt.

I've been accused of working for Waymo and Cruise too, because I defend them against the unfounded bullshit you guys spread about them. And about me, too, apparently. I'm a self driving car nerd, I moderate a subreddit dedicated to the subject under the same username I have here, and I've been following the industry, the technology and it's players since the DARPA days. Relative to the rest of the industry Zoox is doing incredibly well, so if you want to challenge me about something, how about instead of making up teleological conspiracy theories, challenge me on the facts.

Re: Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO

#18

Post by KKKKkkkk1 »

dawhizkid wrote: post #9

The story that came out earlier this summer in Bloomberg was pure HBO Silicon Valley-esque hyperbole -> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-17/robot-tax... The degree I take a company seriously is inversely related to the hype spewed by these articles (see pre 10/2015 Theranos press)

But hype is part of the culture. I mean, there's a company whose motto was "do no evil".

Re: Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO

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Post by zamfi »

KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #18
dawhizkid wrote: post #9

The story that came out earlier this summer in Bloomberg was pure HBO Silicon Valley-esque hyperbole -> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-17/robot-tax... The degree I take a company seriously is inversely related to the hype spewed by these articles (see pre 10/2015 Theranos press)

But hype is part of the culture. I mean, there's a company whose motto was "do no evil".

I hate to be that guy, but it was “don’t be evil” not “do no evil”.

Basically meant “don’t be like Microsoft” back in those days.

Very different meaning than people often assume, and not about hype. More about not letting success get to your head and using it to crush everyone else.

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