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Self-driving startup Waabi raises up to $1 billion and partners with Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis | Fortune

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Waabi, the Toronto-based AI company building software to enable autonomous driving, has raised $1 billion in new funding and struck a major partnership with Uber to deploy at least 25,000 robotaxis on the ride-hailing giant’s platform.

The deal marks a significant expansion for Waabi, which until now has focused on autonomous trucking.

The funding consists of a $750 million Series C round led by Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners, plus an additional $250 million milestone-based investment from Uber tied to the robotaxi deployment. The company says it is the largest fundraise in Canadian history.

Other investors in the Series C include Uber, NVentures (Nvidia’s venture capital arm), Volvo Group Venture Capital, Porsche Automobil Holding SE, BlackRock, Radical Ventures, and a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

Waabi declined to disclose its valuation following the funding round. Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail reported in December that the company was seeking a $3 billion valuation in the Series C round.

Waabi also declined to say where its Uber robotaxis would first be deployed or on exactly what timeline they would be rolled out.

Waabi represents a new breed of autonomous vehicle company—part of what some in the industry call “AV 2.0.” These companies use end-to-end AI models that learn to drive from vast amounts of data. Often a single AI model handles perception (understanding where the vehicle is on the road and what is happening around it), navigation (deciding what route to take), and action (deciding how to turn the steering wheel and whether to accelerate or brake).

This contrasts with earlier self-driving technology, such as that originally deployed by Alphabet company Waymo, which relied on extensive hand-coded rules, many different software programs and machine learning models, each handling a single aspect of driving, as well as high-definition maps.

Uber has recently announced a slew of robotaxi deals with vehicle manufacturers and AV 2.0 startups. In many of those deals, Uber is providing the startups with funding, as it’s doing with Waabi. Earlier this month, Uber announced a tie-up with Nuro, another startup building software for self-driving, and Lucid Motors, which aims to put 20,000 Uber robotaxis on the roads, with the first robotaxi deployed this year.

Alongside that announcement, Uber also invested $300 million into Nuro and Lucid. The ride hailing company also has partnerships with self-driving startup Avride for robotaxis in Dallas and several other U.S. cities. And it has partnered with Waymo to allow passengers to hail Waymo self-driving cars through the Uber app in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta. In 2024, Uber invested in U.K. AV 2.0 company Wayve as part of a partnership that also aimed to test Wayve’s technology in Ubers in London. Uber also has a partnership with the Chinese internet giant Baidu to test robotaxis in London and several other international markets.

Raquel Urtasun, the computer scientist who founded Waabi in 2021 and serves as its CEO, previously led Uber’s autonomous vehicle research lab. Uber has been involved with Waabi since its Series A venture funding round and already holds a seat on the startup’s board.

Previously, Waabi had been working on the software that could operate autonomous trucks. In October, it announced the integration of its AI software into Volvo’s fleet of autonomous trucks, which provide autonomous freight delivery services on highways in Texas and some mining and quarrying sites in Norway and Sweden. Volvo Autonomous also has a partnership with Uber’s Uber Freight service.

Currently, Volvo’s trucks that use Waabi’s software are using safety drivers in Texas. Urtasun said Waabi decided not to launch fully driverless trucking operations until the Volvo platform is fully validated—a decision she framed as prioritizing safety over speed. Volvo has said publicly that full validation is “just quarters away.”

Urtasun told Fortune that the expansion to robotaxis is in no way a pivot for Waabi. The company’s “physical AI platform” can generalize across different vehicle types, geographies, and driving conditions, and the exact same AI models that drive Waabi’s trucks will also power its robotaxis, she said.

“The model will be aware which vehicle it’s driving, but it will be the same model,” Urtasun said. “Think of us as humans—we are not switching our brain, but we know each vehicle we are driving.”

This approach stands in contrast to companies that have developed separate systems for different vehicle types. It also means that improvements made for trucking benefit the robotaxi system, and vice versa.

Although Waabi and Uber did not disclose a timeline for the Waabi-powered robotaxi rollout, Urtasun said it would happen “super fast.” “Much faster than anybody can think,” she said. “Much faster than you had traditionally seen on the robotaxi side.”

The robotaxi market is becoming intensely competitive. Waymo, owned by Google parent Alphabet, has been aggressively expanding beyond its original base in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company now operates in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Austin, and Atlanta, and has announced plans to launch in more than a dozen additional U.S. cities in 2026, including Miami, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, and Washington D.C. It’s also planning its first international launches in London and Tokyo.

Tesla, meanwhile, launched a limited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, last June using its Full Self-Driving software. The service initially operated with human safety monitors in the passenger seat but began offering some fully driverless rides in January. Tesla’s approach, like Waabi’s, relies on end-to-end AI trained on camera data—though Tesla uses a vision-only system without the lidar sensors most competitors employ.

Wayve, the British company that has raised more than $1.3 billion from investors including SoftBank, Microsoft, and Nvidia, is also pursuing end-to-end AI. But unlike Waabi, Wayve has focused primarily on passenger vehicles and advanced driver-assistance systems rather than trucking.

Waymo itself has been experimenting with end-to-end AI models and is rebuilding its own self-driving technology stack around them, as Fortune reported last year. But the company continues to rely on a combination of lidar, radar, and cameras for commercial operations.

Waabi’s new funding, meanwhile, will go toward accelerating its commercial progress in trucking while also supporting the expansion into robotaxis, Urtasun said.

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, said in a statement that Waabi’s technology is “a fundamental leap forward” in how driverless technology is being developed. “Their remarkable progress in autonomous trucking and rapid expansion into robotaxis demonstrates how their technology unlocks for the first time true scale in the real world,” he said.

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January 28, 2026
Semitruck driver dies in late-Wednesday night multi-vehicle crash near Oklahoma border: Colorado State Patrol

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BACA COUNTY, Colo. — A semitruck driver died in a late-Wednesday night multi-vehicle crash on Highway 287, Colorado State Patrol (CSP) said.

Around 11:39 p.m. Wednesday, CSP was called to a crash involving three semis in the southeast corner of the state, just north of the Oklahoma state line.

A 48-year-old man out of Florida was driving a Volvo semitruck hauling a trailer. He was headed southbound on Highway 287, behind a Peterbilt semi also hauling a trailer. In the opposite lane headed northbound on Highway 287, CSP said a 54-year-old man out of Texas was driving a second Peterbilt semi hauling a trailer.

The driver of the first Peterbilt semi crossed over the center line of the road, hitting the 54-year-old Texas driver head on. The first Peterbilt semi truck was then engulfed in flames.

The 54-year-old Texas man drove off the right side of the road before bringing the semi to a stop. The 48-year-old Florida driver also drove off the right side of the road to avoid the crash, hitting a barbed wire fence before coming to a stop.

The first Peterbilt semi truck driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to call the Colorado State Patrol (CSP) dispatch at 719-544-2525 and reference case number VC260027. CSP will ask tipsters for their name and contact information so investigations can reach them.

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January 22, 2026
How Luminar’s doomed Volvo deal helped drag the company into bankruptcy | TechCrunch

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In early 2023, Luminar was riding high. After going public during the pandemic and scoring a key deal with Volvo, the company had added Mercedes-Benz and Polestar as customers of its “lifesaving” lidar sensors. Founder and CEO Austin Russell called it an “inflection point,” as Luminar prepped to have those sensors integrated into the first production vehicles.

Volvo in particular was all in on the technology. The Swedish automaker, which spent decades building a brand around the idea of making the safest cars, was the first to jump at integrating the laser-based sensors in its vehicles. Volvo initially tapped Luminar to provide 39,500 lidar sensors over the life of a deal signed in 2020. In 2021, Volvo upped that to 673,000. And in 2022, Volvo upped it again, this time to 1.1 million sensors.

Three years later, Luminar is now in bankruptcy. The company has already made a deal to sell off one subsidiary centered around semiconductors and is looking to sell its lidar business during the Chapter 11 process, which began on Monday.

The first batch of filings in the bankruptcy case shed new light on how Luminar’s cornerstone deal with Volvo came apart — and how its undoing helped push the once-promising startup over the edge.

Big promises, then big revisions

Luminar made “substantial up-front investments in equipment, facilities, and workforce” to meet the demand from Volvo back in 2022, according to a declaration written by Luminar’s newly hired chief restructuring officer Robin Chiu. It built out a manufacturing facility in Monterrey, Mexico, and spent nearly $200 million to prepare to make its Iris lidar sensors for Volvo’s EX90 SUV.

“Volvo was going to be a marquee customer, the stepping stone to introducing the company’s Iris product to the broader automotive industry,” one of Luminar’s lawyers said during the first hearing in the bankruptcy case on Tuesday.

But, according to Chiu, problems were already brewing with Volvo. The automaker delayed the EX90 SUV because it needed to do more “software testing and development,” the automaker said in 2023. And in early 2024, Luminar says Volvo reduced its expected volume for Iris sensors by 75%.

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Luminar’s other deals started to sour, too. Polestar (a subsidiary of Volvo) quietly gave up on integrating Luminar’s lidar sensors “because the vehicle’s software ultimately could not use” the features, according to Chiu. Mercedes-Benz terminated its agreement to buy Luminar’s Iris sensors in November 2024 because the lidar-maker “failed to meet ambitious requirements,” according to Chiu.

(Mercedes-Benz struck up a new deal with Luminar in March 2025 for its next-generation Halo lidar, but Chiu wrote that Luminar has “no go-forward projects” with the German automaker at the time of bankruptcy.)

This left Luminar with Volvo as its lone flagship customer.

The company never diversified much beyond the automotive industry, shunning other applications like defense or robotics. In fact, Russell had founded Luminar in 2012 with the goal of taking lidar out of those sectors and into automotive to help accelerate the adoption of autonomous vehicles.

It wasn’t until March of this year that Russell talked about expanding beyond automotive, as Luminar signed a deal with construction equipment company Caterpillar. Just two months later, Russell abruptly resigned following an ethics inquiry from Luminar’s board of directors.

“More bad news”

By Chiu’s account, Volvo kept promising that it would meet the lifetime order of 1.1 million units despite the reduced volume in 2024. So Luminar kept pressing forward under that assumption.

But signs of stress were showing. Luminar laid off 20% of its workforce in May 2024 and outsourced more of its lidar sensor manufacturing. It deepened those cuts and restructured some of its business in September 2024. Another round of layoffs came in May 2025 after Russell resigned.

In September, “Volvo delivered more bad news,” Chiu wrote. The automaker decided to offer lidar as an option on the EX90 going forward, instead of making it a standard feature as originally planned. Volvo also told Luminar that it was shelving lidar on future vehicles “as a cost-cutting measure.”

“This change reduced Volvo’s estimated lifetime volumes by approximately 90%,” Chiu wrote.

Luminar told Volvo on October 3 that it considered this a breach of the agreement the companies had first signed in 2020. On October 31, the dispute became public, as Luminar told shareholders in a regulatory filing that it was suspending sensor shipments to Volvo. The Swedish automaker sent Luminar a letter two weeks later, terminating the agreement.

Volvo told TechCrunch in a statement Tuesday that it “made this decision to limit the company’s supply chain risk exposure and it is a direct result of Luminar’s failure to meet its contractual obligations to Volvo Cars.”

“The company’s products can deliver a high level of safety and driver support, enabled by the cars’ powerful core computing coupled with their advanced sensor set — with or without a lidar,” a Volvo spokesperson said.

Luminar, meanwhile, started selling lidar sensors meant for Volvo “to adjacent markets in an effort to recover its sunk costs,” according to Chiu’s filing, but it was too little too late.

“As its relationship with Volvo deteriorated, [Luminar] worked tirelessly to identify new customers, but was ultimately unable to enter into production with any new customers in a timely fashion,” Chiu wrote. “The public Volvo dispute also resulted in a decline in sales due to broader market concerns over Luminar’s financial future.”

Now the future of what’s left of Luminar is in the hands of its creditors and the court. It’s seeking the judge’s approval to sell the semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing, Inc. for $110 million, and hopes to court a number of bidders for the lidar business.

Luminar has already had significant interest in the lidar business, according to the filing. In January, Chiu wrote, the company hired investment bank Jefferies to evaluate a sale after receiving an “unsolicited acquisition proposal.” Luminar received “additional unsolicited inbound expressions of interest to acquire the Company” through the summer and fall — including one submitted by Russell through his new AI lab in October.

As TechCrunch reported Monday, Russell plans to keep bidding on Luminar’s remains as the bankruptcy case moves forward. During Tuesday’s hearing, a lawyer for Luminar said it is “deep into the sale process” and “in negotiations with” several potential bidders.

This story has been updated with a statement from Volvo and information from Luminar’s first bankruptcy hearing.

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December 16, 2025
Child unharmed during police pursuit in Denver metro area; two people arrested

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AURORA, Colo. — A child was unharmed, and two people were arrested following a police pursuit in the Denver metro area Wednesday.

Around 5 p.m., detectives with the Aurora Police Department’s Robbery Investigative Unit spotted a Volvo sedan that was connected to a home invasion that occurred earlier in the day in the 1300 block of Idalia Court. The Volvo was seen driving near East Colfax Avenue and South Peoria Street.

Aurora PD said its detectives started following the vehicle while additional officers responded to the area as backup.

Officers initiated a traffic stop on the Volvo near Quebec Street and Northfield Boulevard. The driver did not stop, according to Aurora police, and a “pursuit was authorized.”

During the pursuit, the Volvo crashed into an uninvolved vehicle in the 5100 block of Quebec Street. The uninvolved driver was not injured, according to police.

Officers detained the Volvo’s female driver and the male passenger. Detectives also found a “young child” in the vehicle. The child’s age is not known at this time, but Aurora PD said they are approximately 3 years old.

Aurora police said officers did not previously see the child due to the Volvo’s dark-tinted windows. The department identified the Volvo passenger as the child’s father.

The child was unharmed and was returned to their mother, who came to the scene after the crash.

The man and woman were booked into the Aurora Municipal Detention Center. Aurora PD said the woman was arrested for felony eluding and child abuse. She is also suspected in the Idalia Court home invasion, but charges are pending further investigation.

The man was booked on an outstanding warrant, and additional charges are pending further investigation.

The Denver Police Department is investigating the crash, according to Aurora PD.

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September 3, 2025
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Polestar?

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The all-electric sibling of Volvo has a new CEO, new models landing, and a new plant in South Carolina—but will this be enough to stop the EV brand’s decline?

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September 7, 2024
Sweden And Marijuana

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Sweden is in the news again. But digging deeper, is just a frosty nanny state?

Sweden is home to the Northern Lights, Abba, incredible nature and wildlife, cold winters and cool classic design. IKEA, Ericsson and Volvo are among the global companies who started in Sweden. It is a democracy with a parliament and a ceremonial monarch (who are related to the British Royal Family). But it is also a nanny state? The country is rough on alcohol and even rougher on cannabis. In today’s world, it is a bit of a surprised Sweden and marijuana aren’t a good match.

Related: California or New York, Which Has The Biggest Marijuana Mess

The traditional toast of skål is also a call of good cheer, but drinking in Sweden takes a bit of an effort. Sweden has a long and complicated history with alcohol, from problems with everyone always being slightly drunk to today’s intense state control. Sweden has created a national alcohol monopoly, removing the right of private businesses and citizens to produce and sell alcohol. This has lead to very high prices which has lead to systematic changes in how the population drinks.

Not surprisingly, Sweden is very anti marijuana legalization, they do not even have a medical marijuana program. Cannabis is illegal in Sweden, which the government strictly enforces. This includes all personal use or possession, both of which are considered criminal offenses. While there are very slim exception for medical, the government takes a very negative stance on any cannabis.

In the United States and Canada, over 85% of the population are pro some form of marijuana legalization, in the EU, the number is slightly around 55%. In Sweden, the government has supported a long campaign it is a dangerous drug and can ruin your life.

In a country which has waged a long campaign against drinking, hoping for a change in marijuana remains small. While not at the bottom, Sweden has a lower than European average of alcohol consumption.

RELATED: Science Says Medical Marijuana Improves Quality Of Life

The Stockholm Medical Cannabis Conference took place in 2022. The patient advocacy group Aureum Life bravely facilitated the event, inviting the Swedish press to cover the conference. With over 300 attendees, co-founder and CEO Angelica Örnell was hopeful. “We are proud to have organized the first medical cannabis conference in Sweden,” she said. “It’s one step forward in informing the public and healthcare professionals about the many benefits of cannabis as medicine.”

The government definitely has a nanny feel when it comes to intoxicants. But, there is some hope on bringing at least science based medical information to the public.

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February 26, 2024
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest predicts waning EV sales will balloon, hitting 74 million cars annually by the end of the decade

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Forget about anything you may have read about the waning hype around electric vehicles. According to ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood, EVs are only just starting to take off.

In her firm’s annual “Big Ideas” report published on Wednesday, the asset manager predicts the new battery-powered cars sold last year could soar by a third every year to reach 74 million in 2030 — all of which will at least be technically capable of driving autonomously. By comparison only about 10 million EVs were delivered to customers last year.

“As battery costs continue to decline, EV prices should fall, potentially driving exponential growth in unit sales,” the report argues.

At an average selling price of $20,000 each, that represents a grand total of more than $1.4 trillion in annual revenue potential for EV carmakers, who she anticipates will pocket a tenth of that as profit before interest and tax.

The flip side is this will all but wipe out demand for internal combustion engine cars as total global new vehicle sales only hit 100 million in 2030, barely more than what was sold in the peak year of 2017. This may cause a “death spiral for incumbent auto manufacturers”, ARK Invest warns.

EV makers struggling to reach Tesla’s scale

Wood is known for her love of moonshot technologies tipped to render existing ones obsolete in five to 10 years, and to better predict trends deliberately employs research analysts from specialist fields rather than from conventional Wall Street backgrounds.

She first earned a reputation as a star investor for her prescient bullish bets on Tesla, which Wood argues should hit $2,000 in 2027, largely because Musk will have by then solved autonomous driving, what he calls Tesla’s “ChatGPT moment”.

Nonetheless her firm acknowledged that many EV manufacturers are struggling to scale profitably. So far only Tesla and BYD have proven they can ramp operations fast enough to achieve the kind of cost advantages their competitors can only dream of.

“Many are pulling back from the market […] because the already-profitable market leaders are cutting prices aggressively,” ARK Invest wrote, citing General Motors, Volkswagen and Ford delaying some of their EV capacity expansion plans.

Volvo Cars abandons Polestar in its hour of need

One competitor that has struggled to scale is Sweden’s Polestar. The company should be ideally placed to benefit from the EV revolution in China and Europe, as it combines clean Scandinavian design and a premium brand positioning with a low-cost manufacturing base outsourced to partners to minimize cash burn.

In practice however, Polestar has been unable to scale fast enough to finance itself internally, growing vehicle sales by just 6% in 2023.

Now, large Polestar shareholder Volvo Cars said on Thursday it will cease any and all further funding and revealed plans to reduce its 48% stake in the company, in part through a “distribution” of stock to its own investors including its Chinese parent company, Geely.

“Our focus is on developing Volvo Cars and concentrating our resources on our own ambitious journey,” the Swedish premium carmaker said.

Seeking to reassure his investors all was not lost, Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath praised what he called the “continued cooperation with Volvo Cars” in other areas of the business, such as manufacturing. He also welcomed Geely’s interest to potentially step into the breach, before claiming talks to plug a $1.3 billion financing gap were “well advanced”.

So given the recent gloomy news in the EV industry, why is Wood’s ARK Invest so bullish? The asset manager bases its call on a conviction that the cost for batteries will tumble 28% every time their production output (measured not in units but kilowatt hours) doubles.

Come 2040, ARK Invest anticipates applications for battery technology will experience their own “Cambrian explosion”—a reference to the most intense burst of rapid-fire evolution Earth has ever seen. This should enable flying taxis to transform urban landscapes by that point.

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February 1, 2024
Things To Never Say To Someone Who Loves Elon Musk

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If you know someone who stans the almighty Meme Lord and CEO of the Boring Company Elon Musk, here are things you should never say.

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“It sometimes seems like he craves attention.”

“It sometimes seems like he craves attention.”

Oh, so you’re one of those woke libtards, huh?

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“I totally get it. I’m obsessed with Volvo CEO Martin Lundstedt.”

“I totally get it. I’m obsessed with Volvo CEO Martin Lundstedt.”

This will be a conversational dead end, as Lundstedt lacks Musk’s infectious charisma and je ne sais quoi.

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“What’s your favorite Tesla lawsuit?”

“What’s your favorite Tesla lawsuit?”

For true stans, it’s impossible to choose between the 40-plus racial and sexual harassment cases.

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“He dies in the end.”

“He dies in the end.”

You may know the end to his story, but there’s no need to ruin it for people who’ve never come to grips with the reality that he is but a man.

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“It’s kinda weird that he wears diapers.”

“It’s kinda weird that he wears diapers.”

Actually, for a man like Musk, relieving himself in a diaper rather than a toilet is a far more efficient use of his valuable time.

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“No one who has been close to him speaks well of him.”

“No one who has been close to him speaks well of him.”

This, however, is a trick, as no one has ever truly been close to him.

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“He’s not even in my top five tyrants.”

“He’s not even in my top five tyrants.”

There’s no need to rank them.

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“He’s impregnated everyone else. Why not you?”

“He’s impregnated everyone else. Why not you?”

Pointing out the obvious will just make her feel bad.

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“Did you know that Henry Ford also once started an automobile company?”

“Did you know that Henry Ford also once started an automobile company?”

Implying that Elon Musk is in any way similar to anyone who existed before him is pretty much guaranteed to lead to a fistfight.

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“Elon Musk is going to ruin Twitter.”

“Elon Musk is going to ruin Twitter.”

They will rightly point out that Twitter was already ruined. He will just make it worse.

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“Elon Musk is too funny.”

“Elon Musk is too funny.”

Elon Musk is the perfect amount of funny, asshole.

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“Age of consent laws are good.”

“Age of consent laws are good.”

Just testing something here…

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“Elon’s definitely coming to your birthday party.”

“Elon’s definitely coming to your birthday party.”

Don’t give them false hope their father will acknowledge them.

“As a woman, I…”

The only two outcomes from saying this are a violent death threat or total dismissal of your personhood.

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“Please stop harassing me on Twitter.”

“Please stop harassing me on Twitter.”

This will only make things worse.

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“I’m looking for podcast recommendations.”

“I’m looking for podcast recommendations.”

Only terrors lie down this path.

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“Please clean your room.”

“Please clean your room.”

Don’t be such a bitch, Mom.

“Hi.”

Bad idea all around.

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You’ve Made It This Far…

You’ve Made It This Far…

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January 2, 2023
Mikael Damberg, Swedish Minister of Enterprise and Innovation to Open SACC Summit 2017

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SACC Summit is the most followed Swedish American conference of the year. Professor Robert Langer, former CTO of Volvo, Professor Jeff Karp, and renowned business leaders to present on biotech, self driving cars, Swedish American relations, and sustainability.

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The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce New England (SACC-NE) together with SACC-USA will arrange the annual flagship business and networking event in Boston on October 25th, 2017 at 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA. SACC Summit is the biggest and most followed Swedish American event of the year in the country, followed by Swedish industry and government officials alike. Executive Directors, Chairmen, and Board Directors of the 20 regional SACC chambers will fly in from across the United States to attend talks and panel discussions hosted by leaders in biotech, food tech sustainability, innovation, investment, academia, and self driving trucks.

“This is a unique opportunity to get the latest insights in the Swedish and American bilateral trade relationship as well as to meet and network with decision makers. Everyone that is interested in business through innovation should participate at this event in Boston.” Johan Marcus, President of SACC-USA, says. “SACC Summit 2017 serves as a powerful testament to the collaborative business bridge we have worked hard to forge between Boston and Sweden over the years. We are looking forward to introducing our regional SACC chambers, Swedish government leaders, renowned executives, and entrepreneurs to all that the city of Boston and the business community here has to offer,” says Christina Björnström, President of SACC-NE.

Among the speakers: Mikael Damberg, Minister for Enterprise and Innovation in Sweden; Robert Langer, Professor, MIT; Torsten Jansson, serial entrepreneur and CEO, New Wave Group; Torbjörn Holmström, former CTO and CEO to Volvo; Jeff Karp, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Elizabeth Steele, Director of Economic Development and Global Affairs, MassBio; Adam Piandes, Forbes Reporter and Leadership Coach; Myra White, Professor, Harvard Business School.

About SACC-USA: SACC-USA is the second largest European chamber of commerce in the U.S. with 20 regional chambers. Our mission is to promote trade and investment between Sweden and the United States, www.sacc-usa.org.

Source: Swedish American Chamber of Commerce New England

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October 23, 2017