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STARTUP-LESSONS

We raised $2 billion and then had to lay off a third of the company. Hypergrowth is not a strategy. Sustainable growth is.

We had the money. We had the talent. We had two of the biggest automakers in the world. What we didn't have was enough time.

Having two corporate sponsors sounds like a dream. In practice, it meant two sets of priorities, two vehicle platforms, and two definitions of success.

We built our first robots in Colombia because Silicon Valley's cost structure would have killed us before we started.