Introduction

Jesse Levinson is co-founder and CTO of Zooks, the self-driving car company that was acquired by Amazon in 2020. Jesse graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and then completed a computer science PhD and postdoc under Sebastian Thrun at Stanford. He developed algorithms for Stanford's $1 million winning entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Before diving into today's conversation, I'd like to thank our podcast sponsors, Index Ventures and Wits and Biases.