The co -founder of Aurora Sterling Anderson leaves the truck’s self -driving start

Sterling Anderson, an inventor of warriors in the emerging independent vehicle sector and the co -founder of URARA, resigns only one week after the company’s launch Self -driving truck service In Texas.

Anderson held the position of senior officials in Urara. The resignation was Posted in an organizational file Along with the company’s first quarter profit report. His resignation will enter into force on June 1. The Board of Directors will leave August 31.

The company said in the deposit that his resignation from the Board of Directors “did not result from any dispute with the company related to any issue related to its operations, policies or practices. The company and the entire board of directors are very grateful to serve Mr. Anderson and his enormous contributions to the company over the years in its role in its role, the main product official and a member of the painting.”

Anderson cannot be accessed for comment.

Anderson was the director of the Tesla Autopilot program when he left for participating in the founding of Ura in 2017 alongside CEO Chris Ormmson, former head of the Google Self-Driving project and Dero Bagnil, who was leading the Uber team of independence and perception. The trio, which is considered a pioneer for the independent car manufacturer, gave Urura an instant uproar, which helped him attract high -level investors such as Sequoia Capital, Amazon and T

Urra gained more Cachet in December 2020 when she reached an agreement with Uber to Buy a self -driving unit for horse riding In a complex deal, the company is comprehensive at $ 10 billion. Under the conditions of this acquisition, Aurora did not pay money against Uber, a company worth $ 7.25 billion after an investment of one billion dollars in 2019 from the Toyota, Denso and SoftBank Fund in the vision. Instead, Uber handed out his rights to ATG and invested $ 400 million in Aurora. Uber receives a 26 % stake in the company combined, according to the submission of a file with the US Securities and Exchange Committee.

Within four years, the company moved from the loud starting start to Public trading company Through a merger with the special acquisition company for special purposes, Y. SPAC’s technology partners were launched by the founder of LinkedIn, investor Red Hoffman, founder of Zynga Mark Pinkos, and administrative partner Michael Thompson.

Aurora, a deep technical company that is still under development, and years of fixed revenue, has faced opposite winds since it became public in 2021. The company has focused its efforts on self -driving trucks, and put other projects such as robots on the side.

Late last month, Ura announced that she had successfully launched a self -driving truck service in Texas, just a radge under the deadline.