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Austin Russell

Founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies (founded 2012), which he started at age 17 while a physics student at Stanford. Received a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship in 2013 and left Stanford to build Luminar full-time. Luminar went public via SPAC (Gores Metropoulos) in December 2020; Russell was recognized as the youngest self-made billionaire at the time. Luminar builds 1550nm InGaAs lidar sensors (the Iris platform) for automotive ADAS and autonomy.

American · 1 current role · 1 founding

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  • Luminar Technologiesverified→
    Founder

    [Luminar](/companies/luminar) Technologies (NASDAQ: LAZR) is an automotive lidar company developing long-range lidar sensors for autonomous driving.

    Convertible Notes · $600M

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  1. https://investors.luminartech.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors

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