Final week, TechCrunch+ (paywall) interviewed Kodiak CEO Don Burnette. Months in the past, once I was deciding whether or not to I be part of Kodiak, I spent an hour and a half on the telephone with Don. We went over loads of the identical questions that wound up on this interview. Maybe I used to be good observe 🙂
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“…within the fall of final 12 months, we had been solely doing the Texas triangle between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Since then, now we have expanded our community tremendously throughout the broader southern United States, for instance from Dallas to Atlanta.”
“Our truck fleet is now as much as 24 from 11 final 12 months.”
“We’re focusing on scaling this [the driver-as-a-service model] in 2025.”
“Final month, we demonstrated how straightforward it’s to interchange one among our sensor pods within the area by a non-AV educated technician…We predict that’s a novel providing that folks are usually not listening to, and I feel you’re going to see a shift towards our designs and applied sciences within the subsequent couple of years.”