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Accelerating Aurora, Driving the Future

Reid Hoffman

Aside from their market size, partnering with manufacturers that have been in business for almost a century suggests how much broad and deep diligence has been done on Aurora’s team and technology, and how much trust these iconic companies harbor for Aurora’s AV vision. If anyone could be Henry Ford 2.0,

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I’ve seen the Promised Land. And I might not get there with you.

Steve Blank

By now, the board has a good sense of the skill set of the CEO and executive team as entrepreneurs. What makes the current evaluation hard is that is based not on an assessment of what they have done, but on a forecast of what they are capable of becoming. What’s Next. Some never make the transition from visionary autocrats to leaders.

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Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities

Duct Tape Marketing

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. So when we started we were more broadly leadership development, team development across organizations.