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Just build the next thing

Waterloo alumni Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak took autonomous trucking to San Francisco.

Reported by Brian Caldwell, Faculty of Engineering

‘Just build things’
Builders‘Just build things’Photo: University of Waterloo / original source page

Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak, the 20-something founders of an autonomous trucking company now valued at approximately US $5 billion, don’t have

The official Waterloo report places this work in builders / sf. It is a source-linked brief for alumni readers; the source page remains the authority for names, dates and outcomes.

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  1. Original reporting · uwaterloo.ca
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