Final week, TechCrunch+ (paywall) interviewed Kodiak CEO Don Burnette. Months in the past, once I was deciding whether or not to I be a part of Kodiak, I spent an hour and a half on the telephone with Don. We went over a number of the identical questions that wound up on this interview. Maybe I used to be good follow ????
In case you have a TechCrunch+ membership, then the entire thing is value a learn. If not, listed below are a number of the alternative quotes.
“…within the fall of final yr, we had been solely doing the Texas triangle between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Since then, now we have expanded our community tremendously throughout the broader southern United States, for instance from Dallas to Atlanta.”
“Our truck fleet is now as much as 24 from 11 final yr.”
“We’re concentrating on scaling this [the driver-as-a-service model] in 2025.”
“Final month, we demonstrated how straightforward it’s to interchange one in every of our sensor pods within the discipline by a non-AV skilled technician…We expect that’s a singular providing that folks aren’t listening to, and I feel you’re going to see a shift towards our designs and applied sciences within the subsequent couple of years.”