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Cruise strikes me as the ideal acquisition, and a formula others should copy. Kyle Vogt and the rest of the Cruise founding team got personal liquidity; a huge

Cruise strikes me as the ideal acquisition, and a formula others should copy. Kyle Vogt and the rest of the Cruise founding team got personal liquidity; a huge influx of capital to continue R&D; access to GM's marketing, manufacturing, and talent infrastructure; but retain general independence in the pursuit of the ultimate mission of self-driving cars. Pretty impressed with GM for having the insight to understand that arrangement was best and the flexibility to pull it off. And incredibly impressed with what Kyle and his team have achieved post-acquisition. They clearly remain as hungry to make this happen as on day 1.

criticali 8y ago
really? have a friend who interviewed there pre GM acquisition. said it was a colossal joke of a place, engineering wise. and hes worked at some sh*thole startups, so i take his word for it. honestly, it was 100% luck GM took notice of them. weren't many other alternatives around at that time. GM buying them spurred the explosion of self-proclaimed software/full stack self driving startups we see today. So Im not as impressed with the achievements so far as I am with the absolute dumb luck these guys have had. Kudos, i guess.
- makes_me_go_hmm 8y ago
  I've noticed that when cruise articles pop up here on HN they reliably provoke someone to create a new account express this sentiment. Previous examples are this account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tmpnam1234567 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tmpnam1234567 and this user _Fricken: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=_Fricken https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=_Fricken, who based on choice of username seems to actually be impersonating the submitter of this thread. As to the validity of the criticism I have no idea, but it strikes me as very odd. edit: Fricken (no underscore) didn't actually submit this, but submitted the same article and is here in the comments.
  - dang 8y ago
    It's all the same person. In addition to having a 'friend' who 'interviewed' at Cruise, they've been an 'engineer' at Cruise, a 'founder' of Cruise, and also the 'cofounder' who left. We've banned all the trolling accounts we know about and their main account as well.
  - Fricken 8y ago
    Yes, I'm Fricken. I'm not _Fricken.
KyleVogt 8y ago
Thanks Seth! Questions, anyone?
PedoKyleVogt 8y ago
Thanks Seth!

criticali 8y ago

really? have a friend who interviewed there pre GM acquisition. said it was a colossal joke of a place, engineering wise. and hes worked at some sh*thole startups, so i take his word for it. honestly, it was 100% luck GM took notice of them. weren't many other alternatives around at that time. GM buying them spurred the explosion of self-proclaimed software/full stack self driving startups we see today. So Im not as impressed with the achievements so far as I am with the absolute dumb luck these guys have had. Kudos, i guess.

makes_me_go_hmm 8y ago
I've noticed that when cruise articles pop up here on HN they reliably provoke someone to create a new account express this sentiment. Previous examples are this account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tmpnam1234567 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tmpnam1234567 and this user _Fricken: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=_Fricken https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=_Fricken, who based on choice of username seems to actually be impersonating the submitter of this thread. As to the validity of the criticism I have no idea, but it strikes me as very odd. edit: Fricken (no underscore) didn't actually submit this, but submitted the same article and is here in the comments.
- dang 8y ago
  It's all the same person. In addition to having a 'friend' who 'interviewed' at Cruise, they've been an 'engineer' at Cruise, a 'founder' of Cruise, and also the 'cofounder' who left. We've banned all the trolling accounts we know about and their main account as well.
- Fricken 8y ago
  Yes, I'm Fricken. I'm not _Fricken.

KyleVogt 8y ago

Thanks Seth! Questions, anyone?

PedoKyleVogt 8y ago

Thanks Seth!