Tekedra Mawakana

Raising the $16 billion and at the $126 billion valuation is really a vote of confidence.

I mean, this team has been heads down for a long time trying to bring this sort of scientific project into reality and at scale.

And so it's a huge vote of confidence, not only from our majority investor, Alphabet,

but also from our co-lead investors, Sequoia and DST and Dragoneer, as well as a host of world-class existing and new investors.

And it just allows us to continue to scale our business.

Right now, we're laying the groundwork for over 20 cities in this year alone.

I think it's important to interpret that this is an inflection point, right?

Like in 2025, we quadrupled the number of trips that we are providing.

So we offered 15 million rides and we have over 20 million lifetime rides.

So it was just a really important year.

And now that we've launched Miami, that's across six cities.

But at that time, it was across five cities.

And so demonstrating not only that the technology works, that we're able to drive the safety impacts that we've been focused on.

When we were at 127 million miles, we were able to demonstrate that we had 90% fewer serious injury-causing crashes or worse.

That's the kind of safety output that

Drives us.

That's our mission to be the world's most trusted driver.

So coming in at this point demonstrates that consumers are adopting it.

The safety case is being made and it's just really exciting time to join the team.

I think everything is really exciting right now.