The Robotaxi Race Leaders
Key figures driving the autonomous vehicle and robotaxi revolution, from founders to executives at companies like Tesla, Waymo, and Chinese autonomous-driving firms.
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Travis Kalanick
Co-founder · Uber
Travis Cordell Kalanick is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Uber.
Elon Musk
CEO · Tesla
Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and former public official who is the CEO and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX.
Dara Khosrowshahi
CEO · Uber
Dara Khosrowshahi is an Iranian and American business executive who is the chief executive officer of Uber. He was previously CEO of Expedia Group, a company that owns several travel fare aggregators.
Jensen Huang
CEO · NVIDIA
Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang is a Taiwanese and American business executive and electrical engineer who is the founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia, the world's most valuable company.
Anthony Levandowski
Autonomous driving engineer
Anthony Levandowski is a French-American, self-proclaimed self-driving car engineer. In 2009, Levandowski co-founded Google's self-driving car program, known as Waymo, and was a technical lead until 2016. In 2010, he co-founded Google X along with Yoky Matsuoka and Sebastian Thrun.
Dmitri Dolgov
CTO · Waymo
Dmitri Dolgov is a Russian-American engineer who is the co-chief executive officer of Waymo. Previously, he worked on self-driving cars at Toyota and Stanford University for the DARPA Grand Challenge (2007).
John Krafcik
CEO · Waymo
John F. Krafcik is a member of the board of directors at electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian.
Zhang Yiming
Founder · ByteDance
Zhang Yiming is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur. He founded ByteDance in 2012, developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video sharing platform Douyin. Zhang is one of the richest individuals in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$92.8 billion as of June 2026, according to Bloomberg.
Hou Yi
Co-founder · Pony.ai
Hou Yi is a mythological Chinese archer. He was also known as Shen Yi and simply as Yi (羿). He is also typically given the title of "Lord Archer".
Robin Li
Co-founder & CEO · Baidu
Robin Li Yanhong is a Chinese software engineer and billionaire internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Chinese multinational technology company Baidu. As of May 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$5.5 billion by Forbes.