Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana opened up at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 about the vandalism of its cars and how the company pushes back on government surveillance requests.
Waymo co-CEO on robotaxi vandalism: ‘We’re not standing for it’
				
							
				
							Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana opened up at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 about the vandalism of its cars and how the company pushes back on government surveillance requests.
				
							Damoa pinpointed the problem: the complex, multi-step process moving a container from a ship to a freight train. He founded Glīd Technologies to try and solve it.
				
							Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana believes the robotaxi company can increase road safety by reaching scale.
				
							MacroCycle’s approach to recycling dramatically reduces the amount of energy needed to produce new material, potentially lowering costs to the point where it could compete with virgin plastic.
				
							Mbodi users prompt the software with natural language, and its cluster of AI agents works to make training easier.
				
							Pytho AI wants to compress mission planning from days to mere minutes.
				
							Strong by Form has designed a structural floor piece that can span longer distances than existing engineered wood, making it a replacement for steel or concrete. At the same time, the product is lighter than all three.
				
							Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that, in a few years, we should be working a 3-4 day workweek because of AI.
				
							Sequoia’s managing partner Roelof Botha defended his colleague’s controversial comments that sparked an online backlash, arguing that the VC firm needs “spiky” people.
				
							Teller says X has a 2% hit rate, which means that most of the things the company tries don’t work out, and that’s okay.