When you have 500+ people at a startup and they spend 90% of their time working with a single partner on some failed venture it's not surprising they'd end up a

When you have 500+ people at a startup and they spend 90% of their time working with a single partner on some failed venture it's not surprising they'd end up at the partner. You end up building personal relationships within the partner and the workers there will vouch for you. It's not like a small startup team with close vested interests doing the exact same project absent the aquihire. The robotaxi thing was very ambitious and shooting for the moon, and now they joined a megacorp with a much more modest long term project with corporate leadership/management. If the bulk of the Argo leadership staff joined and rehired their teams it'd be different though.