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Accelerating Aurora, Driving the Future

Reid Hoffman

Today, Aurora and Reinvent Technology Partners Y announced their agreement to merge. In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. Toyota , for example, is the biggest passenger-car manufacturer in the world.

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Blockchain is more than memes, wild price fluctuations and my old pal Elon’s tweets

Austin Startup

All event data is put onto a blockchain (in this case using the Blockchain-as-a-Service solution from our partners Topl of Houston, Texas) for full transparency?—?not To see some earlier efforts at this, see this article I wrote in 2018. That event data comes from many sources that build up trust in the system.