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Cross posting from r/selfdrivingcars https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/d96ff4 Full text: Competition for Silicon Valley engineering talent is nothing new, but a notable example has arisen in the self-driving car field. "I'll be direct," said Kyle Vogt, CTO of Cruise, the self-driving taxi developer majority owned by GM, in an email this week to numerous software engineers at rival firm Zoox. "I'm writing because your company is potentially about to go through a major transition, and I want to ensure you have the ability to do what you signed up to do: transform transportation…." Zoox is undergoing an auction process, as The Information previously reported, and Amazon reportedly has been a potential suitor. Vogt's email continues by explaining the merits of Cruise's "resources…to make it happen." Cruise has billions of dollars in cash whereas Zoox does not, though Cruise has had its own challenges. Vogt implied that Cruise, which recently laid off about 150 non-engineer employees, would be able to compensate Zoox engineers for the "full value" of what they already built, something "that is very unlikely to occur via an acquisition in this environment" if they stayed at Zoox. Zoox CTO Jesse Levinson recently told his nearly 1,000 employees that they didn't need to worry because Zoox was "funded." That implied it had a cash source in the form of existing or new investors, or from an acquisition. "I'm not certain whether you have the same kind of respect for Cruise that I do for Zoox," Vogt said. "I don't know what the future holds for you and your team," he said, adding that "you'll be "surprised by what we're up to" and "you've got nothing to lose by hearing what I have to say." On Slack, some Zoox employees criticized Vogt's recruiting efforts during a tense moment for Zoox. "Who will take one for the team and hear the 15 minute pitch?" one employee wrote. #cruise #zoox
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Cruise trying to crush Zoox when they are on the ropes.. nice..
I heard SPG is also trying to poach people out
Why jump off one sinking ship only to join another sinking ship? Waymo, Tesla, Aurora, Argo there’s plenty of better options than Cruise. Mobileye, Aptiv, Baidu are others to consider.
I thought Cruise was the next best after Tesla? Cruise is in the market, Waymo, Aurora, and Argo are not.
Disclaimer, this is my opinion: Cruise is "in the market" with a poor, hard to fix product. Aurora and Argo are focusing on getting the tech right first. Waymo is the leader in tech and are slowly scaling in geofenced operations in multiple cities.
You can’t get the tech right without driving the streets. It’s just not possible. It’s trying to do data science without data.
Thanks for the gist. Hope cruise can pull it off. I feel a year later, Cruise might be in a similar position but who knows.
Tesla is gonna win it all.
Join the dark side.
I'm using Cruise offer for leverage,Thanks Cruise
I personally wouldn’t take cruise. Their culture I heard is toxic. They obviously want the amazon deal not to go through by poaching all the talent. And there’s huge benefit for zoox employee if deal does go through. Cruise stock vs AMZN? I mean come on. Cruise stock after uber and lyft fiasco is unlikely.
Man that's an intense conversation.
Make sure to add the following to your conversations: GM’s installed parent supervisor now CEO aka Daddy Dan. Nelson Bighetti Chief Product Officer. Director of Product with a brilliance that’s hard to ignore.