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Tekedra Mawakana

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365 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

So it was just a really important year.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

But at that time, it was across five cities.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

That's the kind of safety output that

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Drives us.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

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

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

I think everything is really exciting right now.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

And there are many, many things to be learned as we go.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Right.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Like some markets are still not open and they're really important transportation hubs around the world like New York City.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

You know, and so we were the first company to receive a testing permit where we had driver supervision of fully autonomous testing in the city.