Otto
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Otto (Ottomotto) was a self-driving-truck startup founded in January 2016 in San Francisco by former Google self-driving-car engineer Anthony Levandowski and Google Maps product lead Lior Ron, with co-founders Claire Delaunay and Don Burnette. Operating from a SoMa garage with about 90 engineers from Google, Apple and Tesla, it converted Volvo semi-trucks with self-driving technology and tested them on interstate highways. Six months after its public launch in May 2016, Uber acquired it for a reported $680 million; in October 2016 an Otto truck completed a 132-mile autonomous beer-delivery run from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Acquisition
Otto was acquired.
- Company founded
Otto was founded.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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