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Austin Russell (Luminar) - Behind the Scenes of a Mega-Unicorn

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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Entrepreneurship Is a Quintessential Modern Day Entrepreneur

Austin Austin grew up in Southern California and Irvine or at Newport New World. He started Luminar while he was in high school we 16 is it 16 or 17. Then he gets admitted to Stanford in honor that many of you can relate with deeply comes to the farm but drops out sort of three to six months in to Stanford. You fast forward nine years later in 2021 he's raised 450 million dollars. The company has gone public and he has retained 33% ownership of the company. And so not only has he built something that is deeply disruptive he's also done it in a way where he's also retained significant ownership.

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