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Did anyone ever figure out why the original founder/CEO of Zoox was removed?
by remolacha 6y ago
Did anyone ever figure out why the original founder/CEO of Zoox was removed?
- diiaann 6y agohttps://www.axios.com/zoox-fired-ceo-tim-kentley-klay-fe6f068c-4465-42f0-b027-03bdfab782e0.html https://www.axios.com/zoox-fired-ceo-tim-kentley-klay-fe6f06... His previous experience was running an animation studio in Australia...so there's that too...
- bobsil1 6y agoYou get a sense of it here https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-17/robot-taxi-startup-zoox-has-800-million-and-a-wild-pitch https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-17/robot-tax...
- opportune 6y agoI always find it amazing that people like this are able to finagle their way into meaningful positions in SV (this is also partially in response to the bloomberg article sibling comment).
- mkhpalm 6y agoIsn't that kind of the dirty little secret of SV?
- onion2k 6y agoIn the SV investor mind he went from running a company of creative people to running a different company of creative people. What those people actually do doesn't really matter. "CEO skills" transfer between companies quite well.
- wutbrodo 6y agoThe task of a CEO in a pre-product research company is pretty different, I'd imagine. The fact that he was replaced is weak Bayesian evidence in that direction.
- oreally 6y agoInterviewed there once, employees, leads and managers said the same thing about him being too micromanagey. Apparently they were glad to have him be gone.