Tekedra Mawakana

Everyone kind of starts to imagine, what do I want to do instead of commuting?

So that's the fun part.

Just to be clear, I do not have a camera.

Yeah, I think, you know, I'll answer the question in a few ways.

My uncle was actually a truck driver, too, and that job was really important to him.

And, you know, for better or for worse, it was also a really hard job.

And so I think there's an opportunity, and it's going to take, like, a really thoughtful approach, right?

Because, I mean, I'm sitting here talking about building the world's

most trusted driver, and so it's a really tough place for me to sit in and kind of facilitate the dialogue around it.

However, over time, what I am starting to see just from us is there are new jobs being created.

So we have running our fleet, we have fleet technicians who we need, fleet operators, as well as smart depot.

professionals, all of that didn't exist 10 years ago.

These are like AV-focused jobs, one.

Two, jobs that exist today, everyday drivers, we have to hire them, too, in order to validate our software.

We have to accumulate miles in order to validate our software.

So we hire drivers constantly, or our partners hire drivers in different parts of the world.

We also need people who can, you know,

take care of our depots, build our depots, EV charging infrastructure.

And so what we've started to see, as we have these partnerships of fleet operators, is they are driving a lot of job growth as we scale.

So this is, you know, we're just too early to be able to really quantify it.