Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun co-founded Udacity with David Stavens and Mike Sokolsky.

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2011 — Present

Founder and Chairman

Founded the online education company and later served as executive chairman and chairman.

Aug 2023 — Present

Chief Executive Officer

2016 — 2022

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Until 2014

Google Fellow and Vice President; founder of Google X

Founded Google X and led projects including Google's self-driving car and Google Glass.

2017 — Not specified

Co-founder

Co-founded Cresta with Tim Shi and Zayd Enam in 2017. Historical founding role; no current operating role implied.

2009 — Not specified

Founder of the Google self-driving car project (now Waymo)

Historical founder and project lead of Google Chauffeur, the predecessor to Waymo. Exact project-role end date not verified.

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